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Creative thinking is widely acknowledged to be a key to business success in today's world of re-invention and changing rules of the game. Yet for many managers, it remains a skill that is inadequately developed. Managers struggle to nurture creativity in themselves, and in others. And organizations face difficult challenges about how to encourage and reward creativity in the workplace. This seminar presents tools that managers and organizations can use in improving their day-to-day problem solving.
Objectives
This seminar is for middle managers who want to enhance their creativity skills. We accomplish this by better understanding the psychology of creativity; by contrasting learning vs. performance organizations; by teaching techniques for overcoming barriers to creativity in individuals and groups; and by developing the organizational skills necessary to improve creativity in teams and organizations.
Benefits
Participants will:
- Gain an understanding of the factors that constrain and encourage creative thought in individuals. Relevant factors range from cognitive, to emotional, social and even environmental.
- Discover their own potential for creativity and risk-taking in their decision making.
- Gain experience in practicing the tools and techniques for creativity enhancement via small group exercises.
- Learn to diagnose the constraints to creativity in their organizations, and by sharing in the experiences and insights of other participants, discern the varying creative challenges of different organizational contexts.
- Learn how organizations can create an environment that encourages, nurtures and rewards creativity -- drawing on examples of what successful "creative" organizations are doing to remain innovative.
Overall, participants in this seminar learn to identify those areas most in need of improvement, develop creativity and innovation management skills, learn tools that can help them in this, and improve their knowledge of how to make practical improvements in the workplace.