Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 5 Days
Target Audience: Managers/Supervisors/Team Leads
Learning Objectives:
- Know how to facilitate working groups work when challenged and / or to resolve problems
- To develop tools to better facilitate these teams
- Bring your organization to innovate more
- Improve your facilitation skills / facilitation
- Being recognized as a creative facilitator
- Adapt interventions to the target groups and challenges
Course Content:
- Introduction
- Innovation: A matter of survival
- The need and context of group facilitation
- The group facilitator
- The qualities and characteristics of the host
- The learning needs and styles of learning
- The learning styles
- Communication
- The consultation process
- The role of the consultant
- The process steps
- The development of creativity
- Define imagination, creativity and innovation
- Different forms of creative intelligence and how to develop
- The blockages to creativity and how to get around
- The behaviours that foster creativity
- The secrets of creative geniuses
- The creative genius innate or supported by technical?
- Some technical creative geniuses
- Make new combinations: The essence of creativity
- Look at things differently
- The management of creativity and innovation
- Unleashing creativity
- The enabling environment
- Organizational brakes
- The leader of innovation
- The innovation process and its tools
- The process steps
- The rules of effective thinking: Divergence and Convergence
- Tools to diverge and converge
- Use the right tools
- Tips on animating
Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.
Benefits to the participants
Throughout the activities, the learners will look at different elements of facilitating innovation and the importance of innovation in an organization.
Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the participants once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.