Creativity in the Workplace

Overview

You’re smart, you’re serious about what you do and you always give it everything you’ve got. But it’s not enough! We all need help to look at things differently - to ‘think creatively’. Once we know what we want to do we then need to make it happen. This course offers a range of inspirational ideas that you will be able to put into practice at work, to help unleash those latent forces of creativity.

Key Outcomes

Having experienced a range of innovative ideas on the course, delegates will encouraged to put them into practice. They will also be increasingly aware that creativity is as much about the business skills of discipline and collaboration as it is about ‘free expression’.

Duration

1 day

Content

• Visions, missions and goals
• Creating rules - being arbitrary
• What is possible - setting SMART objectives
• Making mistakes the positive way
• Slogans for success!
• Seeking out criticism and dealing with it when it’s not sought
• Researching creatively: ‘anchoring’ and knowing your own history
• Speculation and ideas
• How to take calculated risks, (and the benefits)
• Looking at things another way - why do we need to do it anyway!
• Creative communication and creative language
• Networking - using friend and foe
• Stay naïve - when not to question