Creativity and Innovation

Creativity and Innovation Program teaches participants about creative thinking in the workplace. You 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 provides 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. You will also learn how to organise creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity, increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving process.

This course will benefit any individual who needs to develop their capacity to develop lateral solutions to business problems, such as managers, marketers, customer service officers and sales people.

Key Business Benefits

• Increases the ability of the organisation to innovate
• This in turn increases an organisations’ competitiveness and value to customers and shareholders
• Increases problem solving capabilities of the organisation which will help productivity and performance

Key Participants Benefit

• Helps develop the creative process by providing structure for it to happens
• Quickens the creative pace by including strategies that help participants get into creative ‘spaces’.
• Has participants identify their thinking preferences and what they need to do to further develop their creativity and consider ways of developing team members and team effectiveness in this area

Participants will leave the course with a certificate of attendance and an individualised action plan to help support next steps on return to the workplace. More importantly you will have developed skills and knowledge to become:

• More confident and comfortable with the creative process
• More able to get creative results
• More adept at helping others create
• Better able to access a creative state