Creativity & Innovation

Creativity in the business world results in improvements, new products, problems solved and improved change resilience in the employee population.

Most individuals associate creativity with those in “artistic” fields rather than in the business world. Creativity in the business world results in improvements, new products, problems solved and improved change resilience in the employee population. This skill-based program breaks creativity into usable and, most importantly, learnable components. Managers, supervisors, leaders and individual contributors can implement an entire creativity process with a team or work independently to generate new ideas and solve problems. Each participant works on a group project as well as a “real life” project from the workplace. All learn that creativity is an important part of business growth and customer satisfaction in the workplace.

Consider this program if:

• Problem solving is a long and complicated process that falls on the shoulders of few people in the organization.
• Outdated paradigms and ideas flood the workplace.
• Customers are requiring new and improved services, processes and products.
• New ideas aren’t readily accepted by those who must “approve” them.
• Few changes that are implemented are followed-up on or evaluated for success or failure.

Program Outcomes:

• Recognize the components necessary in order to be creative.
• Prepare to be creative.
• Generate alternatives, ideas and possible solutions to problems in groups or as an individual.
• Narrow alternatives in a structured and criteria-specific way.
• Sell new ideas and changes to those who are affected by them.
• Evaluate the results of ideas on the individual, the business and the community.
• Enjoy problem-solving from a fresh perspective.