Instructor Led Creativity Training in United States

Tapping Into Your Creative Potential Get in touch with your creative side. Topics covered include abandoning conventional black/ white thinking, wearing your clothes inside out, solving challenges creatively, creating an environment where creativity flourishes, and understanding your creativity quotient. Participants will engage in interactive exercises to expand their creativity, define their creativity quotient, learn how to  more...

Time Management Using Time Mastery Profile ...ourages participants to address the habits that limit our creativity and ability to work effectively within the environment. The Problem * How do we manage priorities when they are not our own? * What is the most important time management function to improve my overall use of time? * How does goal setting impact managing my day? Month? Year? Our Solution To Learn...  more...

CEE140 Innovative Leadership Skills This course can be held at your company site for 6 or more participants. Please call us at 1. 407. 780. 5585 or send an email to innovatellc@gmail. com CEE140 Innovative Leadership Skills Innovative strategies for leading effective teams in academic, engineering, and corporate environments are introduced in this course. Using interactive role-playing activities, self-assessment  more...

CEE100 Principles of Creativity and Innovation ...com This course will broadly explore the concepts of creativity and innovation in terms of assisting every participant in all spectra and from any organization to release their innate abilities in themselves, their colleagues, and their employees. The topics covered in this course will include: why creativity is important; life, creativity and work as a continuum; keeping a creativity  more...

CEE110 Creative Thinking Techniques ...eneration of ideas by random associations, computer-aided creativity, generation of ideas by morphological changes, imaging ideas by generative graphics, creative games, creation, protection and exploitation of ideas, Patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets, writing your own patent, negotiating the sale of ideas or innovations, Starting your own creative enterprise, location of venture  more...

CEE130 Innovate with TRIZ This course can be held at your company site for 6 or more participants. Please call us at 1. 407. 780. 5585 or send an email to innovatellc@gmail. com Participants will gain advanced experience to apply TRIZ methods to innovate new products and improve old ones. The course covers analysis of a situation and problem formulation, the best directions to design the ideal product or process,  more...

TEAMprovising - Teamwork and Rapport thru the lessons of improvisation "TEAMprovising " enables groups to gain trust, improve communication, and heighten comfort with one another -- all using the fun of improvisation! While entertaining, is actually geared to develop interpersonal communication skills such as: - accepting each othera ™s ideas - listening and reacting - sharing focus - taking reasonable risks - clear  more...

Gestalt Therapy Training ...LTY'S commitment, investment of knowledge, experience and creativity will be used to guide each student by his/ her own goals for personal growth and to experience the excitement of working with a creative faculty. By being a part of the experiential work process and learning the theoretical and practical applications, Gestalt principles and practices are easily assimilated. CERTIFICATES  more...

Cultivating Creativity Putting Ideas into Practice Nov 17, 2011 Some individuals excel at generating many new and creative solutions to a problem or opportunity. In fact, they often generate more than the organization can manage. These highly creative people often provide significant energy and enthusiasm in the early phases. However, the challenge can be in moving from the realm of generating ideas to the realm of execution. Sometimes the challenge is in  more...

Beyond Conflict Management Transforming Conversations and Relationships Apr 18 2012 ...nflict can be a motor for positive change and a source of creativity and renewal. Our view of conflict determines, to a large extent, whether or not a creative solution will be found. Successful leaders learn to embrace conflict, create a safe space for honest dialogue, and honor diverse views while effectively reaching agreement. This requires understanding the nature and causes of conflict,  more...

Getting the Best Results A Practical Framework for Solving Business Problems Oct 16 & 17 2012 ...iving execution - all without sacrificing thoroughness or creativity. The net result: better solutions developed faster to positively affect your growth, profitability, and ability to service your customers. In this working session, participants will begin the process of resolving a current challenge in their organization. Competency will be developed through group exercises, discussions and  more...

Retain Your Focus on Whats Important The Power of Mindfulness May 30 & 31, 2012 In a world of flux and rapid change, it is easy to find ourselves firmly clasping to mindsets and routines to create illusions of control. Such rigidity can result in a host of problems such as tunnel vision, greater stress, reduced physical health, and difficulty navigating complex systems. We may find that "urgent" but less important issues get in the way of our primary goals. We might define a  more...

Cultivating Creativity Generating New Ideas Nov 16, 2011 ...ations must understand the important relationship between creativity and innovation. Creativity is all about the making and communicating of meaningful new ideas. Innovation is the transformation of these ideas and insights into deliverable business results. In short, you can have creativity without innovation a but you cana ™t have innovation without creativity. Therefore it is  more...

Avid Media Composer - Trimming Workshop This practical two-day course is an intensive look at trimming efficiently, effectively, and creatively on everything from dialogue scenes to montages to complicated multiple layer sequences. Designed to offer plenty of hands-on exercises, this course breaks down trimming into its essential creative and technical components, helping to bring out your creativity, effectiveness, and quickness.  more...

Creative Problem Solving Participants will learn specific tools for solving problems that require creative thinking. Creative Problem Solving is highly interactive and memorable. Why do it? Develop awareness and understanding of the need to use a creative problem solving process Use tools and a structured process for solving problems Develop solutions to sticky problems Apply the creative problem  more...

Atlanta GA - November 12 & 13 - 2 Day Advanced Home Staging Design Marketing Course ...g intense relationships with clients, advanced design and creativity, future trends, and secrets to designing stunning installations to attract the luxury markets, just to name a few. Best of all, it is instructed by one of the premier experts in the real estate design and home staging industry - Matthew Finlason himself. Space is limited. Course will likely sell out. Cost is $1695,  more...

Toronto Canada - September 30 - October 1* - 2 Day Home Staging Design Marketing Course ...g intense relationships with clients, advanced design and creativity, future trends, and secrets to designing stunning installations to attract the luxury markets, just to name a few. Best of all, it is instructed by one of the premier experts in the real estate design and home staging industry - Matthew Finlason himself. *Date may change due to current production schedule. May be required  more...

Ottawa Canada - September 24 25 - 2 Day Advanced Home Staging Design Marketing Course ...g intense relationships with clients, advanced design and creativity, future trends, and secrets to designing stunning installations to attract the luxury markets, just to name a few. Best of all, it is instructed by one of the premier experts in the real estate design and home staging industry - Matthew Finlason himself. *Date may change due to current production schedule. May be required  more...

Indianapolis IN - September 10 11 - 2 Day Home Staging Design Marketing Course ...g intense relationships with clients, advanced design and creativity, future trends, and secrets to designing stunning installations to attract the luxury markets, just to name a few. Best of all, it is instructed by one of the premier experts in the real estate design and home staging industry - Matthew Finlason himself. Space is limited. Course will likely sell out. Cost is $1695, $500  more...

4MAT Advanced Instructional Design, New Orleans, LA ... is for design thinkers who want a formula that unleashes creativity and consistently delivers results. The process of the design thinker involves articulating the unknown needs the customer may not even know they have, moving the client from what they want to what they need, working within constraints, observing and identifying the underlying issues and delivering a product that makes a  more...

4MAT Advanced Instructional Design Irvine CA ... is for design thinkers who want a formula that unleashes creativity and consistently delivers results. The process of the design thinker involves articulating the unknown needs the customer may not even know they have, moving the client from what they want to what they need, working within constraints, observing and identifying the underlying issues and delivering a product that makes a  more...

Mobilization of the Marketing and Sales System to Boost Your Business training program Training goals: To give participants tools and mobilization mechanisms, which will allow them to use marketing systems to increase sales volume and activate sales system for achievement of these aims. The participants will not only learn new mechanisms taken from real business, generate ready-to-use ideas, but also work out a plan of action to change systems and implement the seminar results.  more...

Customer Service ...izations expect. Training Objectives Increase the creativity and skill level of customer service representatives Demonstrate what excellent customer service is Provide insights and practice to improve customer service Develop your own organizations bank of customer service learning situations Understanding cultural differences in customer service Identify onea ™s own  more...

Negotiating Skills ... customized question map for preparation Tools for Using Creativity in Your Negotiation a Role playing a Psychodrama a Conferences a Brainstorming a Homework How to Control Negotiation Conflict by Controlling the Climate a Elements of climate, attitude, Meta-Talk, gestures a Typical climates and how to predict them a Experimentation in creative negotiating  more...

Think First Think First is an intense, hands on, two day workshop is for people who want revolutionize their thinking... Learn to: appreciate your unique information processing system through a new assessment instrument identify toxic mindsets that kill your creative process Examine the oppression of past thinking Examine the tyranny of the familiar Participate in: Suspending judgment The lost  more...

Discovering Creativity Module 01 ...s to their work and life. Included in this program are creativity awareness exercises, creative thinking tools, approaches to effective creative orientations and methods to creating results in your orgnization. The program is manifested through methodology of learning by doing, through exercises which enable experience of the creative process, deep discussions which shift awareness to  more...

Applying Creativity module 02 ...g tools and approaches to enable effective application of creativity to business and personal goals. This program arose out of a learning that only creative thinking is ineffective within organizations without thorough application knowledge of it. It accomplishes a 'doing' centric approach building over the first module of 'discovering creativity'. The program is manifested through  more...

Championing Sustainability: A creative forum for organizational change leaders Championing Sustainability is a one day "creative forum:" an interactive collaborative exploration of what it means to lead sustainability efforts. The outcomes of this one day forum are: * Help you understand key principles for sustainability and how to begin incorporating them into your organization * Introduce you to diverse frameworks to assist you in generating innovative ideas and  more...

VALUE STREAM MAPPING This introductory course teaches the technique of Lean process mapping, also known as Value Stream Mapping. This technique is used to analyze information and work flow from the customer s initial request to delivery of the final product or service. Course participants learn the symbols and language of a value stream map and will be able to interpret existing maps as well as author new maps.  more...

LEAN HEALTHCARE TRAINING Participants in this fun and experiential course learn the skills necessary to apply Lean problem solving and process efficiency concepts in the healthcare industry. The class starts with participants walking into a room that is set up as a familiar environment in a fictitious healthcare organization. Each participant is assigned a job function and is an integral part of a muti-departmental  more...

LEAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT) TRAINING Participants in this fun and experiential course learn the skills necessary to apply Lean problem solving and process efficiency concepts in the IT environment. The class starts with participants walking into a room that is set up as cubicles and offices within the IT department of a fictitious company. Each participant is assigned a job function and is an integral part of a muti-departmental IT  more...

LEAN AWARENESS TRAINING This course provides an overview of Lean concepts and applications in the office environment. Topics include: history, roles and responsibilities, quick-wins, methods, metrics, and change. This course provides office personnel with an introduction to Lean and how it could be applied to their work, office space, and department to cut costs and increase efficiency. All topics covered in class are  more...

LEAN MANUFACTURING TRAINING Participants in this course learn the skills necessary to begin the Lean Journey and apply Lean techniques to reduce waste immediately on upon returning to their work environment. In fact, they leave with an action plan that allows them to improve the performance of their company within the first few days. This experiential course includes several content delivery methods: Hands on simulation  more...

LEAN SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION This course develops and certifies the knowledge and skills of a Six Sigma Green Belt candidate. The course includes the methods, the descriptive statistics, and the project management skills necessary to use DMAIC to improve processes. The course is characterized by experiential learning, personalized labs, skill-based training, practical statistics, 1:1 attention, and immediately usable decision  more...

LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION This course is to develops and certifies the in-depth knowledge and skills of a Six Sigma Black Belt candidate. The course includes the advanced methods, the inferential and relational statistics, and the project management skills necessary to improve cross-functional and organization-wide processes. The course is characterized by experiential learning, personalized labs, skill-based training,  more...

LEAN SIX SIGMA SPONSOR TRAINING This course rigorously defines how to select and define appropriate Lean Six Sigma process improvement projects. After completing this course, participants understand the DMAIC methodology and the extent of their personal involvement and the organizational resources required. Participants are taught how to help their teams through each phase of the project, what questions to ask, how to conduct  more...

LEAN SIX SIGMA AWARENESS TRAINING This introductory course provides an overview of Lean Six Sigma: history, results, roles and responsibilities, the DMAIC methodology, project selection, basic descriptive methods, and tollgates. This course helps participants identify Lean Six Sigma projects, as well as become more valuable resources to a process improvement team. This course highlights how an understanding of Lean Six Sigma can  more...

Boosting Learning with Humor ...Creativity authority Edward De Bono has said, Humor is by far the most significant be-havior of the human brain. This is very good news for teachers, trainers and other com-municators, since humor is the most affordable training technology there is. It is also an innate talent anyone who s a former child is a natural humorist! BOOSTING LEARNING WITH HUMOR links recent research on both  more...

Break the Negative Energy Cycle ... can drain you. It reduces your effectiveness and stifles creativity and productivity. It keeps adrenaline pumping into your bloodstream so you are always in the stressful mode of fight or flight. It pumps Cortisol into you, increasing your stress level. It is exhausting and non-productive. You don t need to allow this cycle to continue. In this class, you will learn ten ways to break this  more...

Leading Managing Successful Teams The art of team leadership involves nurturing individual and group potential, building team dynamics that maximize synergy and creativity, developing team relationships that lead to commitment and dedication, and appropriately empowering people to make the right decisions for the team and the organization.  more...

de Bono's Six Thinking Hats When teams engage in six hats thinking they are practicing parallel thinking everyone is using the same tool at the same time on the same challenge. This speeds up the process saving everyone time. Each person s unique thinking on the challenge is included which ensures a stronger solution is implemented, supported and is well thought out.  more...

de Bono's Lateral Thinking Strengthen your business with fresh new thinking bring innovative solutions to life. Joel Barker has made the business case to create new paradigms. Lateral Thinking provides a flexible framework with systematic creativity tools the how to, so you can.  more...

de Bono's Practical Innovation More than ever before employees are being asked to do more with less. It isn t easy. Most companies are tackling this challenge with cost cutting initiatives. This is only part of the solution. If you are cost cutting you can be sure your competitors are doing the same. What s the net gain? Not much in the way of unique added value for customers. The trick is to find practical innovative solutions  more...

Critical Thinking and Creativity Training Business Training Works, Inc. offers onsite training workshops, seminars, and classes for groups. Our courses are designed for one-hour, half-day, full-day, and two-day formats. For a full course outline, free resources, fee schedule, and company information, visit us at www.businesstrainingworks.com. AVAILABLE SERVICES: Onsite Instructor-Led Programs for Groups: We come to your location.  more...

Six Thinking Hats Six Thinking Hats Six Thinking Hats is a world-renowned course developed by Dr. Edward de Bono that will eliminate unproductive meetings and help individuals organize and maximize their thinking, making problem solving and decision making easier, faster and more effective. Six Thinking Hats teaches you to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative, and critical thinking from  more...

Enhancing Trust in the Workplace Trust is critical in achieving results with people. Increased trust leads to more motivation, creativity, innovation - and ultimately, increased productivity and greater work satisfaction. This program introduces participants to the cutting-edge, easy-to-understand Reina Trust & Betrayal Model along with tools, skills and methods that support building and sustaining trust.  more...

Gateway Leadership Certificate Program ...uilding effective team dynamics that maximize synergy and creativity; developing inter-team and intra-team relationships that lead to commitment and dedication; understanding the effects of competition and collaboration on the effectiveness of a team: and appropriately empowering people to make the right decisions for the team and the organization. Companies who are market leaders and have  more...

Communicating with Influence Building Successful Interpersonal Team Communication Individual and team success depends upon the ability of individuals to communicate with others and be understood. The communication skills covered in this course are required to successfully exploit individual and group potential, focus a team s efforts, maximize creativity, influence another s thoughts and actions, and continually improve quality and productivity.  more...

Leading & Managing Successful Teams The art of team leadership involves nurturing individual and group potential, building team dynamics that maximize synergy and creativity, developing team relationships that lead to commitment and dedication, and appropriately empowering people to make the right decisions for the team and the organization.  more...

Core Consulting Skills A three-day program that follows a consulting project from selling it to delivery of the first report. Each of the project stages will be covered using the sequence: Introduction of a conceptual framework Role play and/or practical exercises in small groups Debate and formulation of learning points for practical use..  more...

Implementation of Change The highest ambition a consultant can have is to "make something happen" in the client environment. Implementation of change is therefore what distinguishes the men from the boys in consulting. So, while this workshop covers the latest concepts and thinking in the area of change management, it focuses on the factors that make the difference between having a good idea and making it happen. It will  more...

Introduction to Consulting Management A one-day workshop that deals with all aspects of setting up, managing and developing a successful consulting practice.  more...

Leading Consulting Projects The course will develop participants' skills in leading, managing and sustaining the performance of their project teams. It will also enable participants to manage consulting projects in the most effective and professional manner, using the best standards and practice internationally available. What will you achieve?  more...

Managing a consulting Business This course is targeted at managers with P&L responsibilities for consulting units. It is focused both on the top line and the bottom line, and discusses best business practices in a highly pragmatic manner.  more...

Consultative Selling This course introduces the consulting sales process, and the tips, techniques and strategies that enable you to conduct it effectively. It combines theory with skills practice so that it can be applied immediately participants return to work.  more...

Master Class in Account Management This is a highly pragmatic and interactive workshop designed for experienced consultants, managers and partners, who are in charge of developing major accounts. The workshop focuses on the mechanisms of increasing value to key accounts.  more...

Solving Complex Problems A two-day program with a focus on participants' capability to deal with complex problems - problems that are ill-defined and for which there may be a large amount of potential solutions. Solving these problems requires teamwork rather than individual knowledge, and approaches that are intuitive as well as rationally sound.  more...

Advanced Analytical Tools and Techniques A course that critically examines the contribution of a wide range of management analytical tools and techniques to the continuous improvement sought by organizations. It provides a coherent framework within which to consider tools in general; offers participants the opportunity to evaluate the pros and cons of a range of tools; and it considers just when to use the tools.  more...

Coaching and Mentoring Highly tailored course designed to increase an individual or team's consulting power  more...

Consulting Product Development This is a highly interactive workshop which deals with portfolio management in professional services companies. These companies face a double challenge: Which interventions can be standardized, so they can be profitably marketed to a wider range of clients. What type of new intellectual property should be developed to sustain growth. The target audience for this workshop consists of  more...

Client Engagement Skills A two-day workshop that deals with all issues of client engagements. Technology-driven organizations that wish to increase the capability of their people to offer knowledge-based solutions to their clients will find this workshop right on target.  more...

Building Powerful and Effective Teams Much has been written on, and attempted in, building teams. The benefits derived by and from a group of people who truly work together as a team are legion: greater productivity, happier employees, reduced employee turnover, greater creativity, increased problem-solving ability, and more loyal customers. We offer workshops that explain what teams are, and what they are not. We illustrate how  more...

Overcoming Negativity in the Workplace ...not. It can lead to behaviors that reduce productivity, creativity, and effective problem-solving, and increase employee turnover. The degree of negativity is largely determined by perceptions, beliefs, and the "inner dialogue" each of us brings to bear on our personal and professional undertakings. Organizations and individuals willing to examine the sources of negativity, explore their  more...

Lateral Thinking (Dr. Edward DeBono) This one day interactive workshop provides you with formal tools that will significantly enhance your creativity. Developed by Edward DeBono, M.D., Ph.D. (medicine, psychology, physiology), this course will teach you how to solve problems you have not been able to solve, develop a more creative organization, and to fully utilize the assets you already have the minds of your employees.  more...

Six Thinking Hats Six Thinking Hats is a proven process that reduces meeting times, resolves conflicts, enhances communication, increases meeting output, boosts creativity, and helps individuals and groups solve problems and make sound decisions. It is the foremost thinking and conflict resolution tool in the world.  more...