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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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