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Provided by: Impact Factory Creativity and Innovation CourseCreativity and Innovation |
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Certificate Program
Provided by Impact Factory
What's the Big Idea?
That seems to be what a lot of companies are asking of their people right now: be more creative and innovative and come up with the next Big Idea.
So do you: Need a boost to your creativity? Or think youa ™re not creative at all?
This one-day high energy Public Creativity and Innovation workshop will help you create imaginative solutions to challenges both huge and small.
By either developing your creative muscle or finding out that you actually have one, this Creativity and Innovation workshop will help you discover that not only can you increase your creative options but also encourage truly innovative solutions to emerge, benefiting you, your team and your company.
Creativity isn't just for artists, but for any of you who are called upon to think differently, view challenges from new perspectives and indeed come up with new ideas to make your companies more profitable and leading edge.
You may even be someone who is 'too smart too soon' a someone who is quick to see the solution to problems because of your expert ability and technical knowledge. This skill may actually be holding you in comfortable and predictable patterns of thinking that stop you from achieving your full creative potential.
This is a day where you can engage in an energising and experiential day of discovery.
Related Awards, Degrees or Certifications: Impact Factory Continuing Professional Development completion certificate
Related Jobs or Careers: For anyone who wants to explore the process of creativity.
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Creativity and Innovation Course
Creativity and Innovation Course Objectives
* Explore the process of creativity
* Identify your own brand of creativity and innovation
* Delay the impulse to leap to solutions
* Think laterally
* Have a whole heap of fun
Creativity and Innovation Programme
Cycle of Creativity to Innovation
Exploring the journey from Creativity (generating ideas) to Innovation (making ideas real and usable) begins with:
Delegates bring an idea, project or problem they want to work on during the day.
They then begin a dynamic process called the 'Cycle of Creativity to Innovation'. During the process delegates will identify how they personally approach and experience the creative impulse, even if they think they aren't creative at all.
Games
Throughout the day there will be a sprinkling of games to free up thinking, to energise and just to have some fun.
Generating Ideas Five Windows of Creativity
Created especially for Impact Factory by Tom Bruno-Magdich, the Five Windows represent different approaches to the creative process and help to identify your individual style of creativity.
The Five Windows doesn't ask the question "How creative are you?" but rather, "How are you creative?" This process reflects Impact Factory's central principle of working with what already works about you.
The Five Windows unpicks the actual process of creativity and shows that you have far more choices available than perhaps you realised. The Windows help you see things from a different perspective and will also help slow down anyone who tends to fit into the 'too smart, too soon' category.
A Little Bit of Mayhem
To further demonstrate the power of the Five Windows we have a session on rule breaking, pattern smashing, some chaos and of course, a lot of creativity. This frees you up from the usual way of approaching problems or challenges and demonstrates how to inject energy to achieve your goals.
Identifying Obstacles
Like everything else on this course, we have a creative way at looking at problems and issues you are facing. Working with the material you brought in, we turn the problem on its head by unpicking the situation from a variety of angles ending up with why it isn't working as well as it could.
We still aren't looking for solutions at this point, but we have included a couple of simple but effective brainstorming tools here.
Ideas Grid: Making Innovation Happen
The final big exercise of the day is a process that someone described as a 'reverse pass the parcel' where new elements are added instead of taken away. We look at your creative and innovative challenge by examining the who, what and whys of it and to help you arrive at solutions from a completely new perspective.
From there you look at the first steps you need to take to achieve the solutions you have identified.
Wrapping Up the Creativity and Innovation Day
Each of you will summarise your challenge, solution and what you'll be able to do straight away to make that solution a reality. You will then identify how else you will use the material from the Creativity and Innovation workshop in your workplace or any other part of your life.
* Explore the process of creativity
* Identify your own brand of creativity and innovation
* Delay the impulse to leap to solutions
* Think laterally
* Have a whole heap of fun
Creativity and Innovation Programme
Cycle of Creativity to Innovation
Exploring the journey from Creativity (generating ideas) to Innovation (making ideas real and usable) begins with:
Delegates bring an idea, project or problem they want to work on during the day.
They then begin a dynamic process called the 'Cycle of Creativity to Innovation'. During the process delegates will identify how they personally approach and experience the creative impulse, even if they think they aren't creative at all.
Games
Throughout the day there will be a sprinkling of games to free up thinking, to energise and just to have some fun.
Generating Ideas Five Windows of Creativity
Created especially for Impact Factory by Tom Bruno-Magdich, the Five Windows represent different approaches to the creative process and help to identify your individual style of creativity.
The Five Windows doesn't ask the question "How creative are you?" but rather, "How are you creative?" This process reflects Impact Factory's central principle of working with what already works about you.
The Five Windows unpicks the actual process of creativity and shows that you have far more choices available than perhaps you realised. The Windows help you see things from a different perspective and will also help slow down anyone who tends to fit into the 'too smart, too soon' category.
A Little Bit of Mayhem
To further demonstrate the power of the Five Windows we have a session on rule breaking, pattern smashing, some chaos and of course, a lot of creativity. This frees you up from the usual way of approaching problems or challenges and demonstrates how to inject energy to achieve your goals.
Identifying Obstacles
Like everything else on this course, we have a creative way at looking at problems and issues you are facing. Working with the material you brought in, we turn the problem on its head by unpicking the situation from a variety of angles ending up with why it isn't working as well as it could.
We still aren't looking for solutions at this point, but we have included a couple of simple but effective brainstorming tools here.
Ideas Grid: Making Innovation Happen
The final big exercise of the day is a process that someone described as a 'reverse pass the parcel' where new elements are added instead of taken away. We look at your creative and innovative challenge by examining the who, what and whys of it and to help you arrive at solutions from a completely new perspective.
From there you look at the first steps you need to take to achieve the solutions you have identified.
Wrapping Up the Creativity and Innovation Day
Each of you will summarise your challenge, solution and what you'll be able to do straight away to make that solution a reality. You will then identify how else you will use the material from the Creativity and Innovation workshop in your workplace or any other part of your life.
About The Training Provider: Impact Factory
Impact Factory - Impact Factory is based in London and offers dynamic people skills training. Our principal methods are drawn from theatre and psychotherapy and involve people in active learning. Delegates are on their feet learning experientially rather than sitting taking notes. The trainings offer options, choices, changes in perspective and attitude and the sort of "Aha" experience that allows...
