Managing Innovation and Creativity

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Description:         This course teaches students about creative thinking in the workplace. Students will develop creative thinking skills, mentally and physically prepare for creativity, incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking, and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The course describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most common ways creativity is incorporated into problem solving. Course activities also examine recruiting and retaining creative individuals, performing a creativity audit, communicating with creative people, defining creative rhythm, and exploring ways to implement a creative culture. Students also learn how to organize creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity, increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving process.

 

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 Unit 1: Creative thinking basics

 Topic A: Creative thinking

·          Understanding creative thinking

·          Identifying characteristics of creative thinkers

 Topic B: The creative process

·          Increasing concentration

·          Discussing incubation and illumination

·          Evaluating and presenting an idea

 Unit 2: Personal creativity

 Topic A: Preparing to be creative

·          Preparing mentally

·          Preparing physically

 Topic B: Increasing creativity

·          Increasing creativity through experiences

·          Increasing creativity through innocence

·          Increasing creativity through intuition

·          Increasing creativity through adventure

 Unit 3: Creativity in organizations

 Topic A: Creative organizations

·          Identifying a creative organization

·          Building a creative workforce

·          Encouraging creativity in organizational situations

·          Understanding factors that suppress creativity

 Topic B: Using creativity

·          Generating ideas

·          Discussing creativity uses

·          Solving problems

 Unit 4: Fostering a creative environment

 Topic A: Employing creative individuals

·          Recruiting creative individuals

·          Retaining creative individuals

 Topic B: Maintaining a creative environment

·          Conducting a creativity audit

·          Interacting with creative people

·          Developing a creative culture

 Unit 5: Promoting team creativity

 Topic A: Organizing creative teams

·          Developing a creative team

·          Recognizing roles and responsibilities

·          Finding a creative rhythm

 Topic B: Conducting team sessions

·          Managing creative sessions

·          Discussing creative roadblocks

 Topic C: Promoting and using creativity

·          Increasing team creativity

·          Solving problems by using team creativity

 

Aug 19, 2010
Sep 16, 2010
Oct 18, 2010
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Price: $295
Group Rate: $1,195
(Up to 15)