Our Services Courses [ Innovation 1 | Innovation 2 | Innovation 3 | Innovation 4 ]

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Innovation 1: Breakthrough Thinker

Duration: Half-day to 2-day workshop
Group Size: Up to 150 people

Description: This highly interactive workshop introduces the mindset, toolset and skillset necessary for innovation to become a reality in the workplace. With the breakthrough thinking process, participants share a language and approach to problem solving that oils the wheels for meaningful collaboration and innovation. The essential skills of deferred and affirmative judgment give everyone an "idea protocol" to foster the development and growth of new ideas and creative solutions. Personal feedback on the FourSight thinking style profile helps individuals leverage style differences when it comes to solving problems. Tool cards and a process guide offer them a variety of tools to create new options in response to problems and challenges.

Key benefits include:

 

Awareness of thinking style

Leverage your creative strengths

Tools to bolster creative thinking

How to optimize group creative thinking

Ability to anticipant creative blocks

Turn problems into opportunities

Invite new thinking that leads to breakthrough ideas

Deliberately increase your own creativity

The FourSight System


If you think Innovation 1: Breakthrough Thinker would benefit your organization
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Innovation 2: Cultivating Creativity

Duration: 2-3 days
Group Size: Up to 24

Description: How can organizations solve complex challenges that require new thinking? By deliberately applying what research and experience have shown about creative process and creative climate. This two-day program is for individuals, groups, teams and entire divisions within an organization who want to learn how to apply the Creative Problem Solving process to solving tough problems. The program is appropriate for anyone in the organization who identifies problems to be solved, assists in generating ideas, or participates in creating or implementing plans of action. This training is designed to be a working session where individuals apply their newly enhanced creativity skills to solve real organizational and personal challenges. Participants have focused on various issues from creating breakthrough products to improving the manufacturing line. "Graduates" report that this training has resulted in increased efficiency and effectiveness in solving complex challenges (not to mention, saving millions of dollars.)

 

Key benefits include:

Solve costly organizational problems efficiently

Enable individuals, groups, and teams to share a common language and process for solving challenges

Drastically reduce the time it takes to solve problems and implement solutions

Obtain the skills to fully understand and clarify the actual problem

Use the power of the group to create breakthrough ideas and insights

Develop skills to get creative ideas fast

Give individuals the ability and skills to foster a climate for innovation throughout the organization

Help groups move ideas into action and implementation

Make meetings more productive


If you think Innovation 2: Cultivating Creativity would benefit your organization
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Innovation 3: Leading Innovation

Duration: 2.5 days
Group Size: Up to 24

Description: If innovation is to take root in your organization, people must approach their work in new ways with new expectations. The change must ultimately happen at a personal level, touching attitudes about risk, experimentation, cooperation, innovation and follow-through. This course focuses 2.5 days on developing the requisite skills, behaviors and attitudes that help drive creativity and innovation forward. By working on interactive challenges that provide opportunities to learn and practice new innovation behaviors, participants emerge from this course as cultivators of creative behavior in themselves and others. The principles covered are reinforced by applying them to real world situations and participants return to work with the belief, knowledge and experience that one person can make a difference.

 

Key benefits include:

• Greater sense of responsibility for behavior that enhances innovation

• Acceptance of mistakes and the ability to leverage lessons learned

• Cultivation of mature risk-taking

• Improved leadership and listening skills

• Behaviors directed at constant improvement

• Interactions based on conscious choice

• A shift to a win-win mentality

• Acquire the skills and attitudes necessary to shift into your creative zone on demand

• Gain insights into personal creative strengths and key growth areas


If you think Innovation 3: Group Size would benefit your organization
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Innovation 4: The Facilitative Leader

Duration: Five+ days (optional one day follow-up)
Group Size: Up to 16

Description: This program is designed for organizations that want to dramatically increase their ability to create on-going breakthroughs. It is delivered to hand-picked leaders in organizations who are familiar with the basics of Creative Problem Solving. During this 5-day course, participants lead Creative Problem Solving sessions that address their organizational challenges and receive personal coaching and feedback. By the end of the program, participants master the creative process to such a degree that they can lead others through it successfully. The result is that organizations have full-time access to in-house Creative Problem Solving facilitators and stronger leaders. "Graduates" of this program have led Creative Problem Solving sessions that have resulted in millions of dollars of financial gains for their organizations.

 

Key benefits include:

Access to facilitators who are comfortable leading groups through the creative process

Enhanced process-consulting skills to work with clients to uncover key goals, objectives and underlying challenges for organizational breakthroughs

Effectively choose work groups and teams to get truly breakthrough thinking

Increased ability to use Creative Problem Solving with teams, groups and individuals to resolve major issues

Sharpen and hone leadership, teaching, presentation and listening skills

Strategies for meeting management

Skill in using additional creativity techniques to help generate and evaluate ideas efficiently

Strategies for screening and strengthening potential solutions and creating clear plans for implementation.

Mapping out the problem space and pinpointing underlying issues

Greater ability to model appropriate behavior to foster and nurture a creative climate


If Innovation 4: The Facilitative Leader would benefit your organization
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