Creativity for the Rest of Us
A great program to open a conference when you want people to crack open new thought processes to receive and contribute exciting new ideas.
Creativity for the Rest of Us prepares the ground for people to feel confident and comfortable breaking free from patterned ways of thinking by unleashing the power of their creative imagination. It's a highly interactive and fun networking experience during which the audience uses short exercises and storytelling to drive home these key points:
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Everyone can do (and does) creative things
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Creativity involves using new ideas, imagination and new decisions (we practice that)
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Research shows that everyone has creative capacity (we prove it!)
Leverage and Language for Creative Thinking
When it comes to creativity, what decade are you operating from? Since the 1950's views of creativity has shifted at least 5 times. Wouldn't it be nice to be up-to-date with current thinking on the subject?
This program reveals shifts in attitude toward creativity over time, highlights the three main fears people have that prevent them from contributing fully when asked for new ideas and how to overcome them, and launches you into creating an environment by using specific language that inspires, engages and empowers people to make a difference.
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Brings you up-to-date with an overview of the state of creativity research
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Reveals the three main fears that prevent people from fully engaging and how to overcome them
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Gives you new phrases guaranteed to inspire and engage unlimited creative potential
Managing Client Expectations of Innovation: The People Side of the Process
Innovation is like the lottery. People purchase ‘tickets’ with mixed feelings of hope, apprehension and confusion. Certainty is not guaranteed. Leaders fear loss of worth, abandonment and insecurity. Yet, in this innovation age, many are encouraged to take risks, to endure failure, and to persevere in business environments that are structured to say 'no' instead of 'yes'.
Innovation processes outline the steps to take to achieve meaningful outcomes with little attention paid to the people involved - the innovators, stakeholders and ultimate consumers. This keynote provides insight into working with the human dimensions of innovation, to open more doors for acceptance of novel and relevant advancements.
- Eight generic stages of innovation
- Key signals that tell you when people are willing to move forward
- Four key questions that must be addressed when proposing an innovation to anyone who may be involved
What is Innovation and Where does Creativity fit? Insights into Innovation Management
This presentation provides a basic framework for understanding innovation so managers can identify the challenges ahead, and free their thinking to plan new steps for dealing with them.
The role of innovation managers is described, leveraging research recently revealed through InnoBasque in Spain as a starting point, integrating responsibilities and competencies required to move innovation forward in organizational settings.
Highlights:
- Definition of innovation and why it is important
- Examples of innovation arenas
- Personality characteristics of the innovation champion
- Roles and responsibilities of innovation managers
- Creativity awareness, and how to use new ideas and new decisions throughout the innovation cycle
Creativity and Innovation: What’s style got to do with it?
There many ways in which people approach meeting a creative agenda and this presentation shows how this is so. Marci spent 13 years working in the field of personality styles, and wrote books on the subject that influenced a generation of creativity and personality styles professionals world wide. This keynote is a solid distillation of her research and creativity and innovation practice.
Content:
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A simple understanding of creativity that applies to all people
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Four unique approaches toward creativity and innovation including motivations and behaviours
- Clues for what people of each style need to be at their creative best
- Seven principles for supporting creativity and innovation day-to-day
The styles used for this keynote come from the multi-lens approach available through using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument. There is no need to take the instrument beforehand because the theory speaks for itself. Of course, if you want to include the instrument, we can do that in a conference or in-house workshop to dig deeper into it all.
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