Thinking Outside the Box: Creativity and Innovation

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Detailed Overview/Outline

Today's global marketplace provides challenges for every type of business or organization. A key to meeting these challenges is to enable "thinking outside the box"... to tap into the personal creativity of each employee and to manage that creativity to produce corporate innovation. This highly interactive, experiential workshop will relate creativity and innovation concepts to profitability. You will:

• Explore models of creativity and innovation
• Rediscover your own personal creativity
• Understand the four major creative roles
• Identify your creative strengths and weaknesses

KEY TOPICS

• Creativity myths and paradigms
• Concepts, definitions, and models of creativity and innovation
• Creative roles: explorer, artist, judge and warrior
• KAI Assessment: cognitive styles of creativity
• Identifying your own personal creative style
• Right-brain and left-brain integration: whole-brain thinking
• Divergent and convergent thinking tools
• The creative process
• The innovation process
• Four types of innovation
• Dealing with change
• Applying your learning back on the job

SPECIAL FEATURE
You will develop a 30-day Creativity Workout Plan that focuses on exercises to enhance your creative skills on a past-course basis.

WHO WILL BENEFIT
Managers and lenders: anyone who wants to maximize creative or innovative potential.

Sponsor Background:

• Over 50 years ago, Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations was formed to provide training to employers to improve workplaces and workplace life.
• Cornell workshops have a reputation for being current in subject theory and application as well as on legal or regulatory issues.
• Classes are highly interactive…between student and instructor and student to student.
• Discussion groups, case studies, role plays, and other exercises provide practice for your learning.
• Your instructors are skilled communicators and experienced professionals committed to providing the finest in real world, practical education.
• The majority of our clients are repeat users…a testimony to the quality and value received.

Substitution and Cancellation Policy

Substitutions of registrants can be made at any time. Cancellations and transfers are subject to a 25% charge unless received in writing one week prior to the program. Registrants who do not cancel in writing prior to the program date and who do not attend are responsible for the entire fee.

Instructor(s):
Michael P. Pitek, III

Instructor Background:
Michael P. Pitek III, Founder and President, The Performance Group. Mr. Pitek combined his unique background in theater, counseling, and business to form the Performance Group, which specializes in communications programs, conference services, special events, and theatrical productions since 1984. One of Mr. Pitek’s specialties is developing and delivering training to foster creative potential.

Past Participants Include:
Past Participants in All Cornell Workshops Include

• AIG
• American Express
• AT&T
• Becton-Dickinson & Co.
• Bell Atlantic
• BMG
• Boeing
• Chase Manhattan Bank
• Citicorp
• Coca-Cola
• Corning Glass
• Estee Lauder
• General Motors
• Girl Scouts of America
• GTE
• IBM
• Johnson & Johnson
• Lucent
• Merck
• Mobil
• MTV
• NEC America
• New York City Criminal Justice Agency
• New York State Dept. of Labor
• Tiffany & Co.
• Time Warner
• UNICEF
• United States Postal Service
• United Technologies
• Xerox

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