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Creativity and
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Course Outline
Duration:
1 Day
Description: This course teaches students about creative thinking in the workplace.
Students will develop creative thinking skills, mentally and physically prepare
for creativity, incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative
thinking, and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The course
describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative
thinking and explains the most common ways creativity is incorporated into problem
solving. Course activities also examine recruiting and retaining creative
individuals, performing a creativity audit, communicating with creative people,
defining creative rhythm, and exploring ways to implement a creative culture.
Students also learn how to organize creative teams, conduct effective team
sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity,
increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving process.
The manual is designed for quick scanning in the classroom and filled with interactive
exercises that help ensure student success.