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Sparking Innovation and Creativity Webinar

This highly interactive, instructor-led online course encourages learners at all levels in their careers to open their minds to innovative and creative thinking, which can lead to fresh ideas, new product development and solutions to long-standing problems.

Course Description/Agenda

We all have a mindset for innovative and creative thinking, but when processes have been in place for many years, introducing fresh ideas can be a struggle for many organizations. SkillPath’s newly refreshed LIVE, virtual training program presents all-new strategies for adopting a creative mindset and removing barriers to innovation.

Sparking Innovation and Creativity helps you build innovative thinking skills and clears the way so you can reach your creative peak. This highly interactive, instructor-led online course encourages learners at all levels in their careers to open their minds to innovative and creative thinking, which can lead to fresh ideas, new product development and solutions to long-standing problems.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Discover how creativity and innovation work together to generate new ideas
Learn the ways curiosity cultivates a creative mind and how it can change the way current problems are viewed
Overcome common roadblocks to creativity and innovation
The importance of failure to the creative process
Master the techniques needed to establish a creative mindset

WORKSHOP AGENDA

Program time: 3 hours

Session 1: Creativity and Insight Meet Innovation

Learn how to begin thinking creatively
Describe how the brain works when it’s at its creative peak
Discover new ways to flex your brain “muscles.”
Define innovation and the components necessary for successful innovation to occur.
Recognize how creativity and innovation work together to generate a new service, good or process.

Session 2: Developing a Creative Mindset

Discuss the importance of curiosity and its role in developing a creative mindset.
Explain how curiosity can change the way you look at situations, products and services.
Identify convergent and divergent thinkers and their roles in creativity and innovation.
Describe the effect of functional fixedness on the creative mind

Session 3: Overcoming Barriers to Creativity

Identify how the absence of psychological safety can inhibit the generation of new ideas.
Describe the concept of failing fast and how failure is imperative to the creative process.
Explain how everyone can be creative and why it’s so important to innovate.
Discuss how creativity and innovation make organizations stronger, more engaged and productive

More Webinar Information

SkillPath Seminars
Course Summary	This highly interactive, instructor-led online course encourages learners at all levels in their careers to open their minds to innovative and creative thinking, which can lead to fresh ideas, new product development and solutions to long-standing problems.
Delivery Method	Virtual Classroom (Live)
Who Should Attend	Anyone who would benefit from innovative and creative thinking