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Creativity and Innovation Course

Public Creativity and Innovation Course

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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 you’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.

Creativity and Innovation courses are run by

Tom Bruno-Magdich

Dannie Carr

Philippa Waller

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' – 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.

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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

The course content may include many of the exercises listed below, and any additional material that the trainers feel is relevant to the delegates on the day.

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.