Course Overview
Our 1-day, instructor-led Creative Thinking And Innovation Training course is designed to teach participants to practice and hone their creative skills. This training will address:
- Recognizing your own creativity
- Develop their own creative environment
- Explain the importance of creative and innovation in business
- Applying problem-solving steps and tools
- Using individual and group techniques to help generate creative ideas
- Implement creative ideas
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Schedule
Currently, there are no public classes scheduled. Please contact a LEXX LIVETraining Consultant to discuss hosting a private class at 301-258-8200.
Course Outline
Overview
What is Creativity and Innovation
- Creativity and innovation: a breakdown
- Know your creative potential
Individual Creativity
- Know yourself
- Boost your creative juices
Get Creative
Developing the Right Environment for Creativity
- What does a creative environment look like?
- Build your creative environment
Creativity and Innovation in Business
- The role of creativity and innovation in business
- The birth of the Four Seasons: a case study
Where Does Creativity Fit Into the Problem-Solving Process
- Problem solving models
- Phase one
- Phase two
- Phase three
Defining the Problem
- Problem identification
- Eight essentials to defining a problem
- Tying it all together
- Power of Eight
Creative Techniques
- RAP model
- Shoe Swap technique
- Walk a mile
- Mind mapping
- Metaphors and analogies
- Making metaphors
- Situation/solution reversal
- Reverse it to solve it
Encouraging Creativity in a Team
- Brainstorming
- Rolestorming
- Acting it out
- The Stepladder Technique
- Brainwriting
- The Slip Writing technique
Putting it all Together
- Nancy Clue and the case of the software upgrade
- Create ideas and choose your solution
LEXX Live is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints re-garding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org
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