Creativity & Innovation Workshops for Business

Creativity & Innovation Workshops for BusinessLinda Naiman2018-12-06T14:27:43-08:00

Unlocking creative potential is key to economic growth

Creativity is at the heart of innovation, and a crucial skill to master if you want to be future-proof.

Creativity & innovation workshops for business will give you and your team a language and structure for developing creativity skills and managing the innovation process, to help you create value for your customers. Learn a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity and innovation based on whole-brain thinking, and classic creative problem-solving.

Hands-on creativity & innovation skills training

Develop the mindset, skillsets, and toolsets of highly creative people in business, arts and science.
Discover your natural capacity for creativity through a range of hands-on activities that will appeal to both sides of your brain.
Explore some of the thinking strategies of innovators in business, art and science, and how you can apply these strategies to your everyday work.
Experiment with ideation tools that supersede traditional brainstorming in a fun, inspiring action-filled environment.
Develop your skills in idea-generation, problem-solving, collaboration and turning ideas into reality
Learn creative techniques you can apply immediately to your work, to help you innovate more effectively.

Topics include:

Understanding the science of creativity
Creativity principles and practices derived from business, art, and science
Overcoming the tyranny of fear, perfectionism and criticism
A whole-brain thinking approach to creativity and innovation
Develop creativity and innovation skills: How to formulate ideas, evaluate ideas, create prototypes, test, and turn ideas into action
Critical thinking skills: Using a whole-brain approach to thinking through problems, questioning prevailing wisdom, and discovering creative solutions
Broaden your perspectives via whole-brain thinking
Increase your adaptability through Improvisation
A framework for creativity and innovation, based on classic creative problem-solving and design-thinking
Developing Creative Leadership capabilities
Creating a culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and innovation
How to inspire and engage your team in collaborative creativity
Convince stakeholders to get onboard with your innovative ideas

Takeaways

Create a language and a structure for developing creativity and innovation and managing the process
Develop the five discovery skills of high-performing innovators
How and where to find great ideas
Effective tools and techniques to help you discover opportunities, find the right problems, frame challenges, formulate ideas, evaluate ideas, create prototypes, test, and turn ideas into action
Get insight into what customers want
Develop a set of seed ideas creative solutions to your specific business challenges and strategies to implement these
Leverage your creative style(s) and increase your confidence in your creative abilities
Generate ideas that add value to your customers and organization
How to foster an innovation culture

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Feedback from participants (from one week to one month after the workshop)

We all benefit from frameworks and approaches when we are learning a new skill or when we are trying to unleash or tap a nascent or atrophied skill.
One of the key takeaways was the importance of working in a small group versus alone
I can leverage some of the brainstorming techniques to help facilitate meetings more effectively — problem solving, solution identification. Also at home!
I won’t be afraid to bring up ideas. I will not always take the first solution that is presented… I will choose the best option instead. I will be more aware of the role creativity can play in solving problems and defining solutions.
Challenging the status quo is necessary to innovate and make our jobs easier.
Practising to make connections between two disparate things.
I learned to connect the dots and collaborate more with others to help with brainstorming.
Emotions are an equally effective source of creativity that is not often plumbed.
With a little time and effort, you can connect ideas that appear not to have a connection
The group is now more comfortable communicating and putting forward ideas. Definite team builder.
The “yes, and” session will be the most used tool in my job.

Linda offered us a challenging, unusual approach to creativity and she provided all of us with highly valuable insights. We now have a set of principles and practices for fostering creativity and innovation that we are implementing at our Business Unit. I recommend Linda Naiman to companies looking for effective ways to cultivate creativity in their people.

—A. Fischer, Senior Vice President Customer Relations Management, Business Unit, High Performance Polymers, Degussa HPP (now Evonik)

Linda embodies the creative qualities she espouses in her work with others. She is a rare combination of someone who is both a practical professional and a reflective practitioner. She has proven to be an expert in enabling and mentoring creative competence in others at all levels of responsibility in organizations. She is a collaborative and supportive colleague who never wavers in her accountabilities and responsibilities. Her work has proven to be exemplary in diverse contexts and settings and will continue to grow in influence.

—Harold Nelson, President, Advanced Design Institute

Sometimes we feel we can not go beyond our ideas and creativity comes to a stall. Art can liberate that feeling and help us look inside ourselves, then we realize there are more ideas than we can imagine and they start to flow. This program helped me look inside myself and understand we just need to let our mind flow and with the help of art as a base for creativity we can go beyond our imagination. We are all artists in our own way. I plan to use the tools and processes from the Art of Leadership Forum at our organization’s strategic brainstorming sessions.

—Yandia Perez, Managing Director, Baxter Sales & Distribution Corp. PR

The encounter between business and the arts illuminates the value of the human being, with all his/her resources, including the most unutterable of them all, the spiritual one. No wonder Linda Naiman defines herself as a corporate alchemist, who turns leaden thinking into gold. Alchemy, the art of turning any trivial material into gold, is the perfect metaphor for the arts when applied to public or private institutions.

—Tatiana Chemi,Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Chair of Educational Innovation and author of Artbased Approaches