Creativity and Innovation Study Guide

0-619-14877-2 © 2003 Publish date: June 20, 2003 136 pages

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Course ID: creativity-and-innov-sg

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The Creativity and Innovation study guide is designed to teach you about creative thinking in the workplace. You will learn about developing creative thinking skills, preparing both mentally and physically for creativity, and incorporating innocence, intuition, and adventure into your creative thinking processes. In addition you will learn how creativity is used for generating ideas and solving problems.

The Creativity and Innovation courseware explains how creativity assists in problem solving and gives you exercises for preparing your mind, and your body, for creative thinking.

This self-directed course is loaded with information and course activities. You will explore how to recruit and retain creative employees, how to perform a creativity audit, and how to communicate with creative people. Other tasks involve defining a creative rhythm and discovering ways to create a creative culture in your organization. You will also learn about organizing creative teams, conducting effective team sessions, avoiding roadblocks to team creativity. If you want to learn how to increase your team's creativity and use creative problem-solving processes, the Creativity and Innovation courseware is the tool to use.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces the basics of creative thinking

• Creative thinking basics
• The creative process

Unit 2 discusses personal creativity

• Preparing to be creative
• Increasing your creativity

Unit 3 goes over creativity in organizations

• Creative organizations
• Using creativity

Unit 4 discusses fostering creative environments

• Employing creative individuals
• How to maintain a creative environment

Unit 5 covers promoting team creativity

• How to organize creative teams
• How to conduct team sessions
• How to promote and use creativity