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This course teaches students about creative thinking in the workplace. Students will develop creative thinking skills, mentally and physically prepare for creativity, incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking, and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The course describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most common ways creativity is incorporated into problem solving. Course activities also examine recruiting and retaining creative individuals, performing a creativity audit, communicating with creative people, defining creative rhythm, and exploring ways to implement a creative culture. Students also learn how to organize creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity, increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving process.
Topics:
Creative thinking basics
Topic A: Creative thinking
Topic B: The creative process
Personal creativity
Topic A: Preparing to be creative
Topic B: Increasing creativity
Creativity in organizations
Topic A: Creative organizations
Topic B: Using creativity
Fostering a creative environment
Topic A: Employing creative individuals
Topic B: Maintaining a creative environment
Promoting team creativity
Topic A: Organising creative teams
Topic B: Conducting team sessions
Topic C: Promoting and using creativity
This Business and Professional Development Training course is delivered by an instructor who has extensive academic training and practical experience in this area. Academic: relevant areas of business and management studies, psychology, philosophy, politics and ICT through university degrees, postgraduate and undergraduate courses, business qualifications and certification. Practical: experience has included work in businesses from small to world-leading multinationals; board member of a business development organisation; economic development post; executive and non-executive director of a number of public and private sector companies.