Creative Spaces: Fostering Innovative Thinking at Work

Course Number:  018-JF
Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Intended Audience:  All Employees

Course Overview
This course explores the design and implementation of the creative workplace … a place where all team members are encouraged and expected to explore possibilities, think beyond established boundaries, take measured risks, and discover new pathways for individual, team and organizational success. This course begins the process of putting a cutting edge on the capacity for practicing, applying, and leading creativity and innovative thinking in the workplace.

Objectives/Topics
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Explore the essential nature of creativity to organizational and personal success

• Identify the individual and organizational barriers to creativity and discover ways to overcome them

• Understand and practice strategies and techniques for sharpening creative thinking

• Understand the process and discipline of innovation

• Discover approaches for developing a creative thinking attitude and nurturing an innovative environment

• Explore innovation case studies and identify innovation benchmarks and best practices

• Apply creativity and innovative thinking to real life organizational challenges

• Develop an action plan for promoting and fostering a more innovative workplace

Prerequisites:  None