Harnessing Creativity for Organizational Growth

• Investigate the nature of your own creativity and tap into the power of “whole-brain” thinking
• Avoid unintentionally killing creativity in your culture, and unfetter organizational creativity by granting “permission to fail”
• Promote a confident creative mindset in others
• Think outside the box to design transformative solutions to business challenges
• Harness creativity as a core foundation for disruptive thinking and innovation
• Leverage the new “sharing economy” to channel creativity in your customer base

• Transforming your organization’s under-utilized creativity into an essential tool for competitive advantage
• Assessing your personal creativity: your natural strengths and areas for improvement, overcoming blocks, observation and empathy as starting points for the creative mind
• Tools for building creative cognition: visualization, analogies and associations, play, the role of constraints
• Exploring creative cultures (Apple, Google, 3M case studies)
• Tools for organizational creativity: Six Hats technique to foster diverse creative thinking across your team, Scamper technique to look at existing assets in new ways, mind-mapping to consider all ideas and solutions at the front end of projects, disruption, design thinking, crowdsourcing
• Leading a creative organization: promoting a creative mindset across your enterprise, incentives and rewards, training, selecting the right creative ideas to drive innovation through the business, fostering a culture that encourages people to take risks

Special features

In this highly interactive program you will engage in lateral and divergent thinking, play, prototyping and experimentation exercises to help you unleash your creative powers.

Note:  participants in this program may qualify for up to $10,000 in funding through the Canada BC Job Grant program. Find out if you qualify.