Ignite Your Creativity And Enhance Innovation

This 2-day workshop is about igniting your creativity and enhancing innovation in our organizations. It is a two-day program filled with inspiring stories, real-world examples, group application exercises and no-nonsense practical tips and tools. Every participant will receive a notebook containing copies of viewgraphs, examples, exercises and tool templates.

Who Should Attend?

• Senior managers
• Middle managers
• Supervisors
• Technical professionals
• Engineers
• Scientists
• Computer specialists
• Anybody involved in idea generation, problem solving and decision making

What You Will Learn

• You’re creative; you just don’t know it!
• How to shatter the myths of and bust the barriers to creativity.
• How to achieve a creative state of mind.
• To change your attitude from "it can’t be done" to "anything’s possible."
• How to move beyond "it’s-always-been-done-this-way" syndrome.
• How to overcome thinking traps that prevent you from reaching your true potential.
• Techniques to generate great ideas yourself and in a group.
• Why your good ideas may fail and how to make them work.
• How to think more clearly with greater focus.
• Where your new ideas originate and how to create the right environment.
• How to enhance your creativity using well proven techniques.
• Mistakes can be opportunities.
• How to use your "Whole Brain" for effective problem solving.
• How to transform your ideas to action and then to results.
• How to protect your ideas and inventions.

Seminar Outline

You Are Creative! You Just Don’t Know It!
What is creativity?
Your IQ is not your CQ
How creative are You?

How to Bust the Creativity Blocks and Enhance Your Creativity?
Myths about creativity
Seven blocks to your creativity
How to shatter the myths and bust the blocks of creativity?
Four creative thinking techniques that never fail
How to achieve a creative state of mind?
Top 10 list to ignite your creativity

You Want to be an "Idea Person"?
The four thinking styles: What’s yours?
The "Whole Brain" problem solving
38 Individual techniques for idea generation
32 Group techniques for idea generation

Innovation: Beyond Creativity
What is innovation?
Why innovation is so important today?
Politics of innovation
How to sell your ideas?
How to transform your ideas to results
The five-phase process of innovation
A 21-day action plan to be a constant innovator

Protecting Your Ideas and Inventions
Copyrighting
Trademarks
Patents