Workshops - Skill Building Platforms for Potential

Imagine having refreshing opportunities to drive business with new outlooks that revitalize individuals and teams. Our seminars and workshops result from over 20 years in the creativity business, working with a variety of client groups, assessing their needs, and fitting the learning and application into their context and culture.

Targeted for busy professionals who want the main point fast, these workshops provide a variety of approaches to unleashing creative thinking for results:

creativity tools and techniques
human dimensions of business innovation
facilitating creative thinking
setting the stage for optimum involvement

Each program actively engages participants in ways that they 'get it' (i.e. the learning point) and 'use it' (i.e. the tools or new behaviours).

Integrating desired new behaviours into day-to-day activities takes a little time and reinforcement. To make the learning and application stick, we recommend stringing half day sessions together over time. To truly integrate the learnings into day-to-day behaviour (rather than to be left in the classroom) the Passport to Innovation® or Idea Generating Readiness® programs may be the way to go. We want you to realize improvement as a result of your investment and to make sure your creativity and innovation needs are met.

Please contact us about using these potentials in your organization.

Leverage and Language for Creativity - New!

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? This progam highlights the three main fears people have that prevent them from contributing fully when asked for new ideas; it reveals the shifts in attitude toward creativity over time, and launches you into creating the future by using new language that will inspire, engage and empower the people to make a difference.

By the end of the program you will:

Be up-to-date with an overview of the state of creativity research
Know the three fears that stand in the way of people fully participating
Experience exercises that help people overcome those fears
Have new phrases to use to inspire and engage others

The Creative Process: Tools and Techniques

Creativity is universal. Everyone has the ability, and can learn how to use it and keep the momentum going - on their own and in groups or teams.

This program shows you how to use your creativity everyday, in meetings, at your desk, in conversation. You will learn and apply creative thinking tools and principles and engage in team building and leadership activities for engagement.

By the end of the program you will know:

Ways to get great ideas
Tools to get your creative juices going
Conversational techniques to inspire others

Your Brain and How to Use it

Working with your brain's natural resources is key to managing your creative ability. Why continue to beat your head and hunker down shoulder-to-the-wheel when you can enliven energy to easily access new thinking on demand?

You will walk away from this session ready to manage your brain so you can access your creative resources when you need it most - everyday.

Learn how to manage creativity by leveraging

Right and left brain thinking: balancing the emotional with the rational, marrying instinct with intellect
Electrical energy frequencies: simple activities and tools to use refresh your brain
Reptilian, Feeling and Thinking brains: how to transform from worrier to warrior
Multiple intelligences: what are they and how to when to use them

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Harnessing Imagination. Three steps to creating new realities.

How do you create new realities? By changing your level of thinking through exploring new worlds, making connections between things not normally connected, by tapping into what's impossible and finding a way to make it real.

Creativity is a function of using your knowledge, getting new ideas, making new decisions. Imagination is part of the equation too, yet, many are afraid to go there because they aren't quite sure how to use it effectively. This program is tailored to engage people in positive imagination experiences so they become confident to use it for your business success.

Highlights:

Nuts and bolts of imagination
Practice using it
How to safely harness its creative power
Leadership behaviours to engage other's imagination
Questions to use that encourage others to use theirs as well

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Managing Innovation: How to start, where to go

This workshop will show how to begin an innovation initiative. Using futures thinking strategies coupled with a step-by-step process for engaging others, you'll learn the nuts-and-bolts for creating new levels of performance and delivery. By the end of the day you will feel comfortable introducing and implementing an innovation for your team, unit, school, organization or association.

In this program you will

Understand why people fail to innovate, and how to overcome the obstacles
Identify areas for innovation
Strengthen your collaboration and networking skills
Create the road map to your next innovation

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Creativity and Innovation: What's Style got to do with it?

The biggest obstacle to innovation may not be the tools you are using; it more likely is how your people work together to make it happen. Using a styles approach you’ll learn how to embed creativity for innovation day-to-day on the job and increase confidence in everyone’s ability to contribute.

By leveraging the theory of psychological type, participants

Discover different creativity preferences and motivations
Experience how people of different styles express creativity uniquely
Learn a formula for presenting new ideas to people of all styles

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Overcoming the Facilitator's Dilemma

or, How to get people to really participate in meetings?

Learn how to anticipate people's needs prior to an idea session, workshop or meeting and how to encourage and involve everyone in your session.

This action-learning laboratory strengthens, supports and adds sophistication to group-handling skills, whether you are a manager leading meetings or an ideation facilitator.

Highlights

Discover your preferred style for leading meetings (there are four)
Evaluate what is needed to engage people from each style
Learn how to use a variety of idea tools, when to use which one and how to assess if they are working
Experience using braincalming and warm-up activities throughout the day that you fresh and engaged - then you can use them in your meetings
Develop an outline to make sure everyone is involved in meetings and workshops

How to Get People to Really Participate

Tap into your personal style for engagement and compare that to people with other styles to find out why some people tune in and then tune out in the same meeting. Learn how to promote engagement from the get-go and keep people involved with full attention throughout your meeting.

How to Facilitate Innovation Sessions that Involve, Compel and Excite

Once you’ve seen one brainstorming session, you’ve seen them all. This often felt sentiment detracts from people’s energies to be fully present and fresh when working to generate ideas.

There’s a secret to successful idea generating sessions, and in a word, it’s variety.

In this specialized focus workshop participants

Learn how to structure successful idea generating sessions including activities and group dynamics
Recieve 3 different outlines to use as a template for further use
Practice behaviours and tools that enable full participation from all involved

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