Description
Learn in a classroom environment with your peers, virtually, with an instructor online.
Course Length: 2 Days
Target Audience: General
Goal:
Everywhere we talk about the need to innovate for our organizations. Easier said than done! Where to start? From over years of research and work with international experts, the host has developed an approach to maximize the creative potential of teams. Besides being very practical, lively and participatory, this workshop presents the results of several serious research and numerous application examples.
Learning Objectives:
- How to understand an individual’s creativity
- Discover the secrets of innovative organizations
- Explore management practices that foster innovation
- Understanding the use and application of tools for creativity in the pursuit of innovation
- Know transforming its organization to make innovative
Course Outline:
• The Innovative Organization
– What is creativity and where does it come from?
– The difference between creativity and innovation
– The need for innovation
• Study “IBM Global CEO study”
• The strategies of the past and the future
• Examples of success
– Three components to transform creativity into innovation
• Creativity and Personal Development
– Creativity accessible to all
– The characteristics of a creative person
• Creativity and intelligence
• Two types of thinking / 2 types of jurisdiction
• The secrets of creative geniuses
• DNA innovator: the behaviours that lead to creativity
• The personal qualities of the innovator
– Support the development of innovation skills
• Transforming the Creativity and the Innovation
– Create winning conditions
• Where and how to innovate?
• Different stimulants
• Potential actors
• Clients and innovation
• The ability to innovate: Five essential conditions
• A culture of innovation
– The three pillars of an innovative organization
• Individuals
- The creative skills
- Expertise and knowledge
- The motivation for the task
• The work environment
- Resource
- The team
- Management practices
• Leadership innovation
– A shared vision
– The innovation strategy
– Structure and process
• Develop a Strategy for Innovation
– Implement pillars: Four large blocks of decision and action
• The guidelines
• Roles and responsibilities
• Support mechanisms
• Monitoring mechanisms
– Some considerations in the innovation strategy
• Governance
• Principles of management
• Adaptation of existing processes
• Allocation of resources
• The stimulation activities and exchange
• Talent management: Attracting, developing and retaining talent
• The management ideas
• Communication / mobilization
• Understand our organizational barriers to innovation and eliminate them
• Tools of Creativity
– Facing the challenges with a creative process
– Measuring out divergence and convergence
– Task the right questions / identifying issues
– The role and deployment of creative tools
– The conditions for successful ideation sessions
– Must have tools
• Conclusion
– The coming decades
– The challenges of innovation in our organizations
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 creativity and innovation and the challenges in organizations.
Course Evaluation: A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.
Note: The course outline may be subject to change.