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Creativity and Innovation
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| Learning Method: |
Instructor Led |
Overview: |
| In this course, students learn how to effectively organize creative teams within your organization and meet the demands of thinking creatively.
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Target Audience: |
| This course will benefit any individual who needs to develop their capacity to develop lateral solutions to business problems, such as managers, marketers, customer service officers and sales people. |
Key Participant Benefits: |
- IMPORTANT…a person will not suddenly become creative from this course if they are not inclined that way. Thinking like this takes years of practice
- Builds understanding of the creative process and provides structures on how to develop these skills
- Includes strategies to help participants get into creative ‘spaces’. That is to allow them contemplation time
- Allows time for ‘allowing time’
- Has participants identify their thinking preferences and what they need to do to further develop their creativity and consider ways of developing team members and team effectiveness in this area
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Key Business Benefits |
- Increases the ability of the organisation to innovate
- This in turn increases an organisations’ competitiveness and value to customers and shareholders
- Increases problem solving capabilities of the organisation which will help productivity and performance
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| Lesson 1: Creative thinking basics |
- Creative thinking
- Understanding creative thinking
- Identifying characteristics of creative thinkers
- The creative process
- Increasing concentration
- Discussing incubation and illumination
- Evaluating and presenting an idea
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| Lesson 2: Personal creativity |
- Preparing to be creative
- Preparing mentally
- Preparing physically
- Increasing creativity
- Increasing creativity through experiences
- Increasing creativity through innocence
- Increasing creativity through intuition
- Increasing creativity through adventure
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| Lesson 3: Creativity in organizations |
- Creative organizations
- Identifying a creative organization
- Building a creative workforce
- Encouraging creativity in organizational situations
- Understanding factors that suppress creativity
- Using creativity
- Generating ideas
- Discussing creativity uses
- Solving problems
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| Lesson 4: Fostering a creative environment |
- Employing creative individuals
- Recruiting creative individuals
- Retaining creative individuals
- Maintaining a creative environment
- Conducting a creativity audit
- Interacting with creative people
- Developing a creative culture
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| Lesson 5: Promoting team creativity |
- Organizing creative teams
- Developing a creative team
- Recognizing roles and responsibilities
- Finding a creative rhythm
- Conducting team sessions
- Managing creative sessions
- Discussing creative roadblocks
- Promoting and using creativity
- Increasing team creativity
- Solving problems by using team creativity
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