Management Programs

Today's global marketplace provides challenges for every type of business or organization. A key to meeting these challenges is to enable "thinking outside the box" - to tap into the personal creativity of each employee and to manage that creativity to produce corporate innovation. This highly interactive, experiential workshop will relate creativity and innovation concepts to profitability. You will:

• Explore models of creativity and innovation
• Rediscover your own personal creativity
• Understand the four major creative roles
• Identify your creative strengths and weaknesses

Key Topics

• Creativity myths and paradigms
• Concepts, definitions, and models of creativity and innovation
• Creative roles: explorer, artist, judge, and warrior
• KAI Assessment: cognitive styles of creativity
• Identifying your own personal creative style
• Right-brain and left-brain integration: whole-brain thinking
• Divergent and convergent thinking tools
• The creative process
• The innovation process
• Four types of innovation
• Dealing with change
• Applying your learning back on the job

Special Features

You will develop a 30-day Creativity Workout Plan that focuses on exercises to enhance your creative skills on a postcourse basis.

Who Will Benefit

Managers and leaders; anyone who wants to maximize creative or innovative potential

Instructor

Michael P. Pitek III

Note: Enrollment is limited to 15