Creativity and Innovation
In-Person/Online
3 Days
English/Arabic
Learning Objectives
Assess own potentiality for creativity and innovation. Gain practical tools for incorporating creative thinking into day-to-day processes. Explain the impact of creativity and innovation on business. Implementing innovation process checklist. Generate & source Ideas. Implement creative ideas. Design own mind map. Risk matrix for innovation for managers.
In-Person / Online 3 Days
English/Arabic
Learning Objectives
Assess own potentiality for creativity and innovation. Gain practical tools for incorporating creative thinking into day-to-day processes. Explain the impact of creativity and innovation on business. Implementing innovation process checklist. Generate & source Ideas. Implement creative ideas. Design own mind map. Risk matrix for innovation for managers.
Modules
Module 1: Overview: 'The What and Why'
- Why innovation is important?
- Types of innovations
- Models of innovation
Module 2: Demystifying Creativity
- Understanding creativity
- The importance of creative thinking
- Characteristics of a creative thinker
- How to step into a new space of thinking
Module 3: Types of Thinking
- Left brain/right brain orientation
- Critical vs. creative thinking
- Thinking strategies
- Holistic thinking
- Assessment: what’s your thinking style? (Harvard Business Review)
Module 4: Identifying Creativity Styles
- Adaptors & innovators & characteristics of each type
- The concept of convergency and divergency
- The difference between intelligence and creativity
- Convergency: intelligence
- Multiple intelligences
- Creativity dimensions (fluency, flexibility, elaboration, originality)
- Different creativity levels and styles
Module 5: Barriers of Creativity: Paradox of Structure
- How different styles perceive structure
- Reflecting structure in organizations enabling ultimate creativity initiatives
- Creativity enablers and limiters
Module 6: Strategies for Individual Creative Thinking
- Mind mapping
- Outside of the box vs. there’s no box
- Paradigm shift: getting others’ point of view
- Free association: how to be more creative
Module 7: Teams That Encourage Creativity
- Building a creative team
- Identifying creativity styles
- Challenges for team creativity
- Enablers for team creativity
Module 8:Strategies for Group Creative Thinking
- Apply collaborative decision making
- Generating ideas:
- Brainstorming
- Brain-writing
- Organizing ideas: affinity diagrams
- The Wheel of multiple perspectives
- Value differences
- Leverage creative collaboration
Module 9: Building Creativity Cultures
- Norms and behaviors that encourage creativity
- Team creativity and innovation and action plan
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