Class Summary
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.
Anyone interested in increasing individual or team innovation skills.
- Creative ideas and innovative solutions.
- Breakthrough thinking and “out-of-the-box” approaches.
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.
- Introduction to Innovation
- Creative Behaviors
- Left brain versus right brain thinking
- Mental blocks to innovation and creativity
- Innovation and Creativity in Action (video example)
- Case Study Review*
- The Innovation Process
- Introduction
- Perception
- Exploration
- Evaluation
- Implementation
- Perception – Tools and Application
- Assessing your thinking style
- Ensuring the “360” perspective
- Review tools for taking a “different view” of a problem or issue
- Case study* (application of tools)
- Exploration
- Review of tools to identify a “short list” of workable solutions
- Case study* (application of tools)
- Evaluation
- Review of tools to identify a “short list” of workable solutions
- Case study* (application of tools)
- Review of tools to evaluate and choose solutions for implementation
- Case study* (application of tools)
- Implementation
- Review of tools to create action plans/implementation steps to incorporate selected solutions
- Case study* (application of tools)
- Summary and next steps
*Case studies can be based on a “real-life” work issue or problem.