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Course Overview
This ILT
Series course teaches participants about creative thinking in the
workplace. Participants will develop creative thinking skills,
mentally and physically prepare for creativity, incorporate
innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking, and use
creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The course
describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body
for creative thinking and explains the most common ways creativity
is incorporated into problem solving. Course activities also examine
recruiting and retaining creative individuals, performing a
creativity audit, communicating with creative people, defining
creative rhythm, and exploring ways to implement a creative culture.
Participants also learn how to organize creative teams, conduct
effective team sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity,
increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving
process. The manual is designed for quick scanning in the classroom
and filled with interactive exercises that help ensure success.
Objectives
- Prepare mentally and
physically to be creative, and increase creativity.
- Develop creativity in organizations, and use creativity to
generate ideas and solve problems.
- Recruit and retain creative individuals, and maintain a creative
environment.
- Organize creative teams, conduct creative team sessions and
brainstorming sessions, and use creativity to solve team problems.
International
Curriculum
Course ILT Series: For 10
years, Axzo Press has enhanced training and education for
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Course Outline
Unit 1 : Creative Thinking Basics
Creative thinking
- Understanding creative thinking
- Identifying characteristics of creative thinkers
The creative process
- Increasing concentration
- Discussing incubation and illumination
- Evaluating and presenting an idea
Unit 2 : Personal Creativity
Preparing to be creative
- Preparing mentally
- Preparing physically
Increasing creativity
- Increasing creativity through experiences
- Increasing creativity through innocence
- Increasing creativity through intuition
- Increasing creativity through adventure
Unit 3 : Creativity in Organizations
Creative organizations
- Identifying a creative organization
- Building a creative workforce
- Encouraging creativity in organizational situations
- Understanding factors that suppress creativity
Using creativity
- Generating ideas
- Discussing creativity uses
- Solving problems
Unit 4 : Fostering a Creative Environment
Employing creative individuals
- Recruiting creative individuals
- Retaining creative individuals
Maintaining a creative environment
- Conducting a creativity audit
- Interacting with creative people
- Developing a creative culture
Unit 5 : Promoting Team Creativity
Organizing creative teams
- Developing a creative team
- Recognizing roles and responsibilities
- Finding a creative rhythm
Conducting team sessions
- Managing creative sessions
- Discussing creative roadblocks
Promoting and using creativity
- Increasing team creativity
- Solving problems by using team creativity |
