Description:
This ILT Series course teaches students about creative thinking in the workplace. Students will develop creative thinking skills, mentally and physically prepare for creativity, incorporate innocence, intuition, and adventure into creative thinking, and use creativity to generate ideas and solve problems. The course describes exercises that can be used to prepare the mind and body for creative thinking and explains the most common ways creativity is incorporated into problem solving. Course activities also examine recruiting and retaining creative individuals, performing a creativity audit, communicating with creative people, defining creative rhythm, and exploring ways to implement a creative culture. Students also learn how to organize creative teams, conduct effective team sessions, avoid roadblocks to team creativity, increase creativity in a team, and use the creative problem-solving process. This instructor's edition is designed for quick scanning in the classroom, and filled with interactive exercises. Comes with a companion CBT program.
Course Outline:
- Unit 1: Creative thinking basics
- Topic A: Creative thinking
- Topic B: The creative process
- Unit 2: Personal creativity
- Topic A: Preparing to be creative
- Topic B: Increasing creativity
- Unit 3: Creativity in organizations
- Topic A: Creative organizations
- Topic B: Using creativity
- Unit 4: Fostering a creative environment
- Topic A: Employing creative individuals
- Topic B: Maintaining a creative environment
- Unit 5: Promoting team creativity
- Topic A: Organizing creative teams
- Topic B: Conducting team sessions
- Topic C: Promoting and using creativity