Creativity & Innovation at Work

Break barriers to creativity by identifying blocks and patterns that hinder your efforts to create the next breakaway innovation.

Course Description

Today's fiercely competitive global conditions require organizations to be innovative in all aspects of operations to keep pace with change. Organizations that do not innovate and come up with new or better products or services are risking extinction. Creativity training helps organizations stay competitive. One good idea can save thousands of dollars, open a whole new market, or develop a new source of revenue or a competitive advantage.

Individuals are given the opportunity to improve their personal effectiveness, their thinking skills, and problem solving abilities in this highly interactive workshop. Jump start creativity in your organization with skills that can immediately change the way your team approaches innovation.

Learning Objectives

As a result of successful completion of this one-day workshop participants are expected to:

• Apply nuts and bolts techniques for unleashing your creative thinking abilities.
• Learn how to generate an abundance of new ideas at work.
• Apply creative problem solving techniques to solve difficult work problems.
• Identify the style of thinking and the thinking language appropriate for each problem such as logical vs. creative thinking, verbal vs. arithmetical language, hence be able to solve problems more effectively.
• Improve brain power in the areas of perception, imagination, problem identification and idea generation.
• Identify specific problems and opportunities at work and come up with creative solutions and action plans to improve the individual's work and the organization's performance.
• Apply creative thinking concepts to the development of new products or initiatives and the improvement of existing services and systems. Learn how leading American organizations have done this.
• Create an environment/work culture that fosters innovation throughout the organization, and enables people to lead a productive and creative work life.

Course Details

• Length: One Day
• Audience: Managers, Leadership, Team Leads, Account Managers, Project/Program Managers, Exceptional Performers, Team Members
• Optimum Class Size: 16
• Prerequisites: none