CEUs: 0.60

Fee: $229 ($189 member)

Note: This program can be tailored to specific target groups such as supervisors, intact teams, or general employee populations.

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Now more than ever, individuals and organizations must rely on innovation skills to survive and thrive. In this one-day program, you’ll learn powerful tools and techniques used by top creativity experts everywhere for dealing with the challenges of today’s “more-with-less” environment.

Length:  One 8-hour session

Instructor:  Lewis

Who should attend: Anyone interested in increasing individual or team innovation skills.

Benefits:

• Creative ideas and innovative solutions.

• Breakthrough thinking and “out-of-the-box” approaches.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this program, you will be able to:

• Explain what is meant by innovative thinking and why it is a critical competency in today’s workplace.

• Identify creative behaviors.

• Distinguish between logical and creative thinking.

• List common barriers to innovation and methods for overcoming each.

• Outline the innovation process and tools to use at each step.

• Apply powerful innovation tools and techniques.

• Help establish a culture of creativity and innovation in your workgroup or organization.

Program Outline:

I.          Introduction to Innovation

            A.         Creative Behaviors

            B.         Left brain versus right brain thinking

            C.         Mental blocks to innovation and creativity

            D.         Innovation and Creativity in Action (video example)

            E.         Case Study Review*

II.          The Innovation Process

            A.         Introduction

            B.         Perception

            C.         Exploration

            D.         Evaluation

            E.         Implementation

III.         Perception – Tools and Application

            A.         Assessing your thinking style

            B.         Ensuring the “360”perspective.

            C.         Review tools for taking a “different view” of a problem or issue

            D.         Case study* (application of tools)

IV.        Exploration

            A.         Review of tools used to generate innovative and creative ideas to solve an issue or problem

            B.         Case study* (application of tools)

V.         Evaluation

            A.         Review of tools to identify a "short list" of workable solutions

            B.         Case study* (application of tools)

            C.         Review of tools to evaluate and choose solutions for implementation

            D.         Case study* (application of tools)

VI.        Implementation

            A.         Review of tools to create action plans/implementation steps to incorporate selected solutions

            B.         Case Study* (application of tools)

VII.       Summary and next steps

*Case studies can be based on a “real-life” work issue or problem.