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Training
Provided by Serebra Learning Corporation
In Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively you will learn to meet the demands of creative thinking in the workplace. This program will help you develop your creative thinking skills and allow you to practice using the creative thinking process.
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Creativity and Innovation: Thinking Creatively
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
Audience
This course is for managers and employees who want to improve their creative thinking.
Objective
- Identify the stages of the creative process.
- Recognize techniques that will enhance creativity.
- Avoid personal and organizational factors that block creativity.
- Foster a climate of creativity.
- Develop creativity in different management functions.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Background Information
- Understand the nature of creativity.
- Identify what types of creative individuals exist.
- Describe how much an individual's use of creativity changes.
- Understand that creative thinking is both a mental and physical activity.
- Simulation Overview:
- Each of the simulations allows you to practice the skills learned in the instructional content. You will enter realistic scenarios in which you will interact with a variety of individuals. By using the knowledge you have gained you control the outcome of each simulation.
Unit 2: Analyzing Your Creativity
- Recognize the personal characteristics that promote and inhibit creativity.
- Identify which personal experiences enhance creativity.
- Incorporate organizational factors that enhance creativity.
- Avoid job conditions that stifle creativity.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you will meet with your mentor who will provide you with an overview of creative thinking. She will also help you identify how often you use creative thinking.
Unit 3: Generating Creative Ideas
- Maximize your creativity by focusing your attention.
- Develop your creative potential by allowing incubation time.
- Identify creative ideas as they occur.
- Analyze creative ideas to gauge their potential value.
- Employ strategies to persuade others to support ideas.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you are meeting with your Marketing Manager. You want to discuss ideas to improve your department's ability in order to provide quality customer service.
Unit 4: Fostering Creativity in the Workplace
- Identify the influence of company communications on creative thinking.
- Analyze the effect of organizational culture on creativity.
- Develop new ways to foster a climate of creativity within a company.
- Incorporate creative thinking strategies in different management functions.
- Simulation Overview:
- In this simulation you are meeting with three marketing team members to identify different ways you can improve your department's performance. Recently your department has been having trouble maintaining its market share.
Duration
4
Minimum Requirements
The CDROM version of this course requires:
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
- At least a double speed CDROM drive.
- An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).
- At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
- At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
- At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
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Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada
About The Training Provider: Serebra Learning Corporation
Serebra Learning Corporation - Serebra Learning Corporation provides technology-based training solutions through a combination of Cortex, its proprietary learning management system (LMS), and a curriculum catalog with over 1, 825 current courseware titles. Founded in 1987 (as FirstClass Systems, with a name change to Serebra in 2001), Serebra has over sixteen years" experience delivering e-learning solutions to both...
