Instructor Led Creativity Training in United States - Training Resources

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...

Thinking Outside the Lines After completing this course, participants will be able to: Develop and consider a multitude of alternative possibilities. Commit to specific courses of action depending upon the issues. Challenge barriers to thinking which exclude growth. Move from idea to solution through pulling others into the implementation.  more...

Sales Presentation Skills What makes one sales presentation stand out over another? How can you distinguish yourself from your competition? With confidence, credibility and composure. This program will teach you all three skills, along with many others. Youa ™ll learn how to gain information and insights about a prospective buyer in order to develop a presentation that addresses his/ her specific needs, buying  more...

Facilitation Skills Workshop ...by a skilled facilitator who encourages participation and creativity while maintaining focus and staying within time constraints. A competent facilitator makes review sessions, meetings, and workshops more productive. A facilitator understands how to plan and prepare for group sessions and how to exercise the interpersonal skills that achieve best results. This interactive workshop describes  more...

Confrontation and Conflict Management Workshop ...ulti-functional teams which afford many opportunities for creativity. However, there are also many occasions when disagreement and conflict cause frustration and reduce productivity. This workshop identifies situations in which conflict may occur and suggests techniques for handling confrontation and conflict. It also provides exercises for establishing and reinforcing those techniques. You  more...

Creative Problem Solving ...creativity with analytic thinking for effective problem solving, and to develop critical thinking skills. Creative problem solving is a valuable skill for today's fast-changing world. The concept of "innovation" and how it relates to the bottom line will also be emphasized. An innovative mindset not only identifies and evaluates great ideas for the marketplace; it also focuses on solving  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...

Innovation at the Speed of Laughter ...creativity locked inside them and when successfully tapped can lead to incredibly innovative ideas, increased profitability, and renewed workplace enthusiasm. Using improvisational theatre exercises uniquely refined for corporations, and his own energy, humor and insight, John s sessions have been described by clients such as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, and Target as fantastic, brilliant, 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...

Avid Media Composer - Trimming 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 supervised hands-on exercises, this course breaks down trimming into its essential creative and technical components, then presents drills that bring out creativity,  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...

THINK TANK: The Game of Creative Problem Solving (TT) Creative Problem Solving is not accomplished serendipitously, it is a carefully orchestrated and teachable process. THINK TANK: The Game of Creative Problem Solving (TT) uses a board game to guide participants through the nine steps of the process and uses creative thinking tools to expand ideas. The fact that the board game has a process and rules makes it easy for participants to "play"  more...

Targeted Breakthrough Thinking What does your organization do when the same problems crop up again and again? How do people respond to new opportunities and challenges? If your organization does not approach problems (chronic or new) with robust, dynamic, fresh, electric minds, you are missing the power of breakthrough thinking. Targeted Breakthrough Thinking stretches participants approaches to problem solving, teaches  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...

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...

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...