Creativity and Innovation

Who attends?
People who want to know their creative strengths and weaknesses. All those who want to explore options, and bring creativity to their work. Managers that wish to seize opportunities offered in a changing environment and transform their creativity into tangible outcomes.

Why attend?
Build skills and stretch performance by knowing what conditions promotes creativity for individuals and teams. Learn how to harness creative power and prepare for its implementation in an organization so that ideas materialize into tangible creative outcomes.

Methodology
This workshop is mostly experiential. Participants experience and apply creative techniques and tools within the workshop and leave with a toolbox that is easily applicable to the work environment. The workshop increases participants’ awareness of their type of creativity and how to create a creative environment or harness creative ideas into tangible outcomes at one’s work place.

Content outline:

Using creative ideas in business
- Why is creativity so important?
- What is the difference between creativity and innovation?
- How do you create a creative climate where ideas emerge?
- What are the underlying assumptions of the different creative theories?
- How do successful companies harness their ideas?
Our personal creativity style and how to develop it?
- Overcoming our personal blocks to ideas and innovation
- How best to leverage our strengths and develop our less preferred style of creativity?
The creative power of groups
- How to build a creative team according to the type of project to resolve?
- Precepts for creativity to materialize in teams
- How to leverage the team’s creativity to obtain tangible creative outcomes?

Take away benefits:

Capitalizing on creativity

Recognizing and working with creative skills: practical toolkit to apply at our workplace
Steps to new ideas: Creative problem solving: problem definition, ideas generation and selection, practical implementation
The rules of the game to challenge our assumptions and postpone our judgment

Creativity in practice

Practice applying creativity techniques in our work place
How to make idea generation a part of our working-day process?
Establish an action plan to transfer creative ideas to the workplace the very next day