Featured Skill:
Creative Collaboration
What you’ll learn:
- Ask creative, provocative, and even uncomfortable questions to get better information
- Move past skepticism and learn to objectively evaluate new ideas and information
- Stretch your creative thinking and generate disruptive ideas
- Push past perceived limitations and create new possibilities
- Shift brainstorming sessions from idea generation to idea building
- Shake up your setting to spark innovative thinking
- Give team members an opportunity to learn about unconventional sources of inspiration
- Help teams identify things they have in common despite having so many differences
- Drive participants to learn about each other in outside-of-the-box ways
- Propel teams to take safe risks and inject a sense of light-hearted humor in the room
- Motivate friendly team competition
- Build energy for creative thinking and big ideas
Description
This course is designed to foster outside-the-box thinking, build trust among teams, and spark invigorating dialogues. You will learn how to generate groundbreaking ideas by embracing unconventional thinking and then critically evaluate those ideas. You will be encouraged to step beyond conventional constraints to discover untapped possibilities. Invigorate brainstorming sessions to facilitate a transformative shift from idea generation to effective idea building. Discover how to create a dynamic, engaging environment that promotes risk-taking and leverages friendly competition to enhance innovative idea generation. The course explores how to harness collective strength by building a strong sense of connection and rapport among members. You will be well-prepared to make brainstorming sessions more stimulating and productive, setting the stage to ignite your next extraordinary idea.
Outcomes:
- Organizational alignment on innovation language and practices
- Improved curiosity and disruptive thinking across organization
- Team empowerment to challenge assumptions and embrace change
- 100+ new innovation ideas from time tested techniques
- Improved creative collaboration
- Skills to reinvent your existing IP into new products and services that amaze your customers
- Improved ability to find unexpected solutions to unforeseen challenges
- Identification of sources of inspiration for innovative thinking
- Team commitment to practicing smart risk-taking
- 20+ work hacks to try immediately to drive innovation and collaboration
- Understanding of the value of different perspectives for innovative thinking
Who this course is for:
Business Managers interested in generating better information through thought-provoking questions, learning to evaluate and generate disruptive ideas, creating new possibilities, facilitating creative thinking, shifting from idea generation to idea building, and sparking innovative thinking. Additionally, it caters to leaders aiming to harness their team’s collective power, utilizing unconventional inspiration, fostering rapport in unique ways, taking strategic risks, promoting healthy competition, ensuring alignment, and encouraging creative thinking.
This course includes:
37 mins on-demand video + 7 downloadable resources
