• Build a culture that promotes innovation and creativity
• Become familiar with different styles of thinking and identify your personal preferences
• Develop creativity for transformational leadership
• Learn how to find out what you don’t know—and solve the real problem
• Challenge existing approaches to workplace issues
• Develop flexible creative and well-motivated teams

CONTENT:

Understanding Your Creativity

• Creativity & your personality
• Understand and use personality styles as a management tool
• Creative flexibility to manage effectively
• Importance of perception
• Maximizing our perceptual ability
• Creativity and the Holistic Model
• Creative people from the past
• Building a Creative Model

Generating Creativity

• Understand how creative thinking works
• Developing Openness to new ideas
• The Creative Mind: Whole Brain Thinking
• Distinguish stages of the creative process
• Recognize what makes excellent creative thinking
• Identify and understand the creativity in others
• Developing a Creative environment
• Consciousness and competence

Strategies for Creative Problem Solving

• Problem-solving strategies
• Getting in the right mindset
• Taking risks & looking for paradigm shifts
• Defining the Real Problem
• Recognizing mental blocks to creativity
• Brainstorming for solutions

Encouraging a Creative Climate at Work

• Releasing creativity at work
• Fostering creativity
• Incubating ideas
• Challenging assumptions
• Creativity for business breakthroughs
• Sharpen your creative thinking: Metaphors & Analogies
• Releasing Creativity through Coaching
• Sharing information for creative solutions

Leading on the Creative Edge

• Innovative leadership for excellent performance
• Convergent & Divergent Thinking Skills
• Developing creative potential in teams
• Understanding creative people
• Motivating creative individuals at work
• Interacting creatively
• Planning your Creative future

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:

Ghana - $6000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000