Bite sized seminars - Creativity Kickstart Phase II

This 1½-2 hour seminar combines a very rapid introduction to creativity with at least an hour focused on a real business problem. Attendees (often a team) decide on the problem ahead of time, and two creativity techniques are used to generate practical ideas that can be taken back to the workplace. [Maximum 12 attendees] Costs £800 each, or available for small groups at our individual rate of £125/head (minimum 3 attendees).

Creativity Live offers an alternative to our Creativity Kickstart event as an introduction to business creativity. It combines a very short introduction to creativity (20 minutes to ½ hour) with a practical opportunity to explore a real business problem using creativity techniques. Unlike Creativity Kickstart it is only suitable for a small group (we recommend 10 or less). The Creativity Live event should ideally be followed by a version of the Creativity Phase II event that expands the toolkit, or by a Creativity Day training session – because a large amount of the time focuses on a single problem there will be more immediate gain in terms of the problem itself, but less learning for further use.

Outline

Introduction – who the speaker is, why we are here, warm-up exercise exploring assumptions
Why bother? – A brief exploration of why there is a need for creativity, driven by the participants own ideas.
What techniques are and do – the nature of creativity techniques and how they work
Working in a framework – How to use a four stage framework to ensure that thinking doesn’t stay blue sky but results in practical outcomes relevant to the requirement
Understanding the problem – Using a technique to explore the nature of the problem and how it should be approached.
Generating ideas – Two powerful creativity techniques (usually Random Picture and the Takeover) are used to generate ideas to help in the problem area.
Creativity agenda – A discussion of how to select from and enhance those ideas before making use of them.
Making it happen – This session has provided an opportunity to experience business creativity techniques, applied to a real world problem. It will have direct benefits, but we finish by looking at how to gain more experience

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We provide free ebooks with all our seminars, but if you would like to give away a book to attendees, which can hugely reinforce the event, our recommended book for this event is Instant Creativity .