Please join me in adventures in learning this Winter and Spring at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC Canada:
If you register for one of my seminars at RRU before January 21, 2010,
you can stay at Laurel Point for just $119.00 CAD.
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Solution-Finding: Leading with Creativity
Date: Tuesday & Wednesday, February 9 & 10, 2010
Length: 2 days
Times: 9am – 5pm
Cost: $350 + GST
Course Code: PABL1892 (2 days)
Please Register By: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
* This course is also offered as a one day introduction course PABL1891
Course Description
Creativity is a core competency for leaders and managers and one of the best ways to set your company apart from the competition. Becoming a skilled solution-finder will make you indispensable in today’s marketplace. This workshop will help you develop the full spectrum of creativity skills, including practical tools and techniques that use both sides of your brain.
Learning Outcomes:
- Learn techniques and methodologies you can start using immediately
- Learn relevant “best practices” information and practical techniques
- Develop the skills required to create and maintain an innovative mindset within the organization
- Develop a set of creative solutions to the organization’s specific business challenges and recommendations on how to implement these
- Employ strategic thinking using a whole-brain model
- Build longitudinal capacity for creativity, communication and collaborative leadership
CONTACT Info
1-866-890-0220
250-391-2600 ext. 4801
Register by Jan 21, and stay at Laurel Point for $119.00
Stay an extra day and come to this workshop:
We Are Smarter Than Me: Making Collaboration Work
Date: Friday, February 12, 2010
Length: 1 day
Times: 9am – 5pm
Cost: $ 225 + GST
Course Description
In today’s competitive environment, collaboration is crucial for successful strategy execution, especially when projects are too complex for one team or sometimes one organization to handle. Yet many collaborations end up wasting time, energy and resources. How can leaders and managers avoid the costly traps and pitfalls of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need? What is at the heart of collaboration, and what can we learn from the successes of great groups such as Lockheed’s famed Skunk Works?
Learning Outcomes:
- Develop the leadership and management skills required to create trusting, collaborative environments
- Transform groups into motivated and empowered teams to get the results you want.
- Learn proven techniques for optimizing collaboration, improving innovation and improving relationships with customers, clients and those you serve
CONTACT Info
1-866-890-0220
250-391-2600 ext. 4801
Putting Passion to Work: Potent Transformational Leadership
Date: Thursday, May 6, 2010
Length: 1 day
Times: 9am – 5pm
Cost: $250 + GST
Course Description
Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. The mark of authentic, artful leaders in any organization is how well they are able to continually nurture the creative relationships and conversations between all stakeholders in order to produce successful immediate value and long term viability.
Learning Outcomes:
You will leave with practical tools and processes to help you develop creativity, collaboration, artistry, reflection, diversity, decision-making and solution-solving skills that contribute to personal and organizational transformation.
Please Register here by April 22, 2010
CONTACT
1-866-890-0220
250-391-2600 ext. 4801
Facilitator:
Linda Naiman is founder of Creativity at Work, a consulting, coaching and training alliance at the forefront of transformational change, through creativity and innovation. She helps organizations accelerate business performance through arts-based training, coaching and research-based consulting.
Linda is co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work, and is recognized internationally for pioneering arts-based learning as a catalyst for developing creativity, innovation, and collaborative leadership in organizations.
Linda has spoken about art, design, and transformational leadership at US Navy Leadership Symposiums, The MIT Club Singapore, The Banff Centre, and at international conferences world-wide. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, consultancies, universities, and public sector organizations. www.creativityatwork.com
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