Optimizing Team Creativity

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

To enable participants to use a variety of tools/ techniques with their teams to generate new business building ideas and creative solutions to business problems. To encourage and facilitate the ability to manage the creative process of others.

PROJECTED OUTCOMES:

Participants will

• Understand team-based strategies to spark innovative solutions and collaborative thinking
• Use facilitation skills to lead groups in creative, innovative, breakthrough thinking
• Articulate the differences between creative thinking and other types of thinking
• Use facilitation skills that lead individuals in creative, innovative, breakthrough thinking
• Model and validate the thinking processes involved in a climate of creativity

LEARNING CONTENT:

• 6 essential elements to creative thinking
• Identifying past experiences with creative thinking
• Testing individual creative thinking abilities
• Barriers and enhancements to creative thinking
• Fostering your own creativity
• Coaching for creativity in a team environment
• Problem solving strategies toward innovative solutions
• Collaborative thinking - building on each other's ideas
• Constructing the environment necessary to foster creative thinking

DELIVERY OPTIONS:

• Pre-work scavenger hunt to gather examples and information
• Presentation of tested techniques that maximize creativity in group settings
• Identifying past experiences of synergy
• Case studies to demonstrate the benefits and challenges of group dynamics in idea generation
• Presentation of critical skills in leadership and facilitation to foster creativity
• Paired exercises to practice one-on-one support for innovative problem solving and action