Train conveniently on-site! “The energy in this Scott Weiner's Creativity and Innovation workshop was great. Everyone was interested and you kept their attention for the entire 3 hours with an element of fun. I found these techniques helped provoke more ideas without shutting anyone down in the process.” Erica L. Caplan, HR Manager, Euro RSCG Life The focus of each workshop is on training skills, effective techniques, and proven strategies to be applied on the job and throughout life. While these are skills and techniques that are teachable, they are rarely taught in school or college. These creativity and innovation courses are based in part on the approach of the international Creative Problem Solving Institute to foster “deliberate creativity” and “applied imagination.” It is the strong belief of the facilitator that everyone can be creative, given an appropriate environment. The experience of these workshops helps overcome the “I am not creative” feeling. Many participants leave the workshop feeling for the first time that they have the ability to be creativity — this experience boosts self-confidence and productivity, while decreasing stress. All the course are designed utilizing the best practices of accelerated learning, performance consulting, systems thinking, and adult learning principles and methodology. • Activity-based, engaging, and highly participatory • Emphasis on relevant techniques and practical tools • Practice using participants’ actual situations and business challenges • Goal setting and action planning to create and sustain success • System for self-management • Activity-based, engaging, and highly participatory • 3-hour or 8-hour (recommended as two separate 4-hour workshops) • No PowerPoint slides! Not a lecture course! WORKSHOP INCLUDES • Strategy Meeting to discuss training goals and to customize workshop language to your company’s wording for sales process and steps, sales activities and goals, etc. • Participant Manual — serves as a participant’s workbook, reference, and a resource for facilitating creative problem solving sessions. • Action Planning Templates • Laminated Reference Cards Nowadays, there is a never-ending need for increased creativity and innovation that can usefully be applied to our situations. It is the facilitator’s strong belief that: everyone can be creative, given an appropriate environment. This fast-paced workshop combines a well-established systematic framework (based in part on the international Creative Problem Solving Institute) with proven practical techniques to unleash personal and group creativity and innovation. You will learn how to appropriately combine “creative thinking” and “critical thinking” to develop innovations and solutions. Learn to establish environments and meetings that foster, rather than inhibit, solutions and new ideas. You will gain the skill of effectively setting-up and phrasing challenges that will improve the quality and applicability of your ideas. These techniques for generating, selecting, and strengthening ideas can be used in groups or by yourself. KEY BENEFITS for those who lead or participate in idea generating sessions and those who would like to enhance their innovation abilities and their skills to contribute more effectively. • Learn a systematic framework and proven techniques for solving professional and personal challenges • Formulate challenges and decision criteria effectively to boost creativity and innovation. • Implement appropriate roles and responsibilities for more productive, participatory, on-track creative problem solving sessions. • Conduct or participate in meetings that are engaging, results-producing, and efficient. • Avoid pitfalls to innovative environments, including “idea killers.” One of the most valuable and challenging contributions in work and in life is the skill to generate solutions on- demand in “no-time-at-all.” This skill is easy once you learn proven creativity techniques. This invigorating workshop teaches you how to generate solutions differently and efficiently. These strategies and techniques can be applied to professional or personal challenges. In your meetings, how often are some of the best ideas not contributed? Learn processes to include the participation of everyone in the meeting, gaining contributions from those who are more extroverted as well as those who are more introverted — regardless of job title. By experiencing each technique as its own mini idea generation session, you will be prepared to participate in or conduct engaging, productive, and efficient idea generation in a group or by yourself. KEY BENEFITS for those who participate in or facilitate idea generating sessions as well as those who have professional or personal challenges they would like to gain new skills for solving. • Learn 5 ½ surefire techniques for participating in or facilitating productive idea generating sessions. • Generate innovative solutions to professional and personal challenges. • Learn time-saving processes to rapidly think up options and solutions. • Overcome the “I am not creative” feeling and enjoy the experience and confidence of being creative. NOTE: There is only a slight overlap between Generating Options, Ideas, and Solutions and Unleashing Creativity and Innovation courses. The techniques taught are different and the courses can be taken in either order. I Six Steps to Creative Problem Solving This workshop teaches a 6-step methodology for generating and judging ideas for creative problem solving. Decision Making: Turning Options into Solutions This workshop teaches strategies and techniques for judging, selecting, and strengthening creative ideas and innovative options after an idea generation session. Idea Linking™ This workshop teaches an excellent way to generate ideas and design projects, based in part on the world- famous Mind Map® process of Tony Buzan. Applications discussed include developing a presentation, thinking through an article, designing a training program, learning new material, and creating an action plan. Creativity and Innovation Consulting Creativity and Innovation for Successful Managers™ — Unleashing Creativity and Innovation in Your Organization Scott E. Weiner, C.H., has more than 15 years experience in training, consulting, and sales. As a consultant, he delivers customized client appropriate solutions. As a corporate trainer, he creates and facilitates results-focused training to improve performance. Learning and Performance Mr. Weiner was the co-founder and Executive Director, Vice President, Learning & Performance, of a sales consulting and training company, with clients including AstraZeneca, Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, Schering-Plough, and Wyeth. He developed 8 flagship blended learning products to focus learning, shorten training time, and increase retention for consistent execution of marketing strategy. Previously, he was a corporate sales trainer at the AT&T School of Business and Technology for the AT&T global sales force. He has earned additional certificates for training and organization development (NYU), instructional designer/developer (Langevin Learning Services), advanced online learning designer (Capella University), creative training techniques (Bob Pike), and accelerated learning (Center for Accelerated Learning). Creativity and Innovation Mr. Weiner is also a skilled facilitator for strategizing and brainstorming sessions. His creativity skills have been sharpened through his studies of applied imagination and deliberate creativity at the international Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI) and learning Improv at Second City, UCB, and Summer Improv Retreat. He has trained and taught at the international Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI). He co- facilitated the foundational “Creative Problem Solving” course at CPSI, utilizing experiential and accelerated learning. He won the top award in the Euro RSCG global network for best Creative Business Idea™. He created BRAIN ON® for strategic planning, problem solving, and brainstorming facilitation. He created and facilitated workshops to train Euro RSCG managers and staff how to be more creative and innovative. For further information about Scott Weiner's background, see About Workshop Creator and F For more information about Scott E. Weiner's Workshops, click on the following links: Clients Nonprofit Facilitation and Stress Relief Workshops Stress Management Benefits High Business Costs of Stress About Workshop Creator and Facilitator Other Programs Send email to Scott E. Weiner Services provided by Scott E. Weiner are not intended to take the place of professional counseling or medical or psychological care and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment. Mr. Scott E. Weiner’s instructions and the information provided are, and are intended to be, educational in nature, providing information, instruction, support, and encouragement. Mr. Scott E. Weiner’s Ph.D. is in Philosophy and he is a certified hypnotist. Mr. Scott E. Weiner is not a licensed physician or licensed mental health professional or psychologist. Mr. Scott E. Weiner does not hold himself out to provide any form of health care or psychotherapy. The services Mr. Scott E. Weiner renders are held out to the public as nontherapeutic hypnotism, defined as the use of hypnosis to inculcate positive thinking and the capacity for self-hypnosis. Mr. Scott E. Weiner does not represent his services as any form of medical, behavioral or mental health care, and despite research to the contrary, by law he may make no health benefit claims for his services. Please consult a health care provider before making any health care decisions or for guidance about a specific medical condition. |
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| CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION WORKSHOPS |
Training objective: Better, faster ideas for improved productivity.
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| Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Harnessing the Synergy of “Creativity Thinking” and “Critical Thinking" |
| Generating Options, Ideas, and Solutions Energize Solutions Sessions Effectively and Efficiently |
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FACILITATOR'S CREATIVITY AND TRAINING BACKGROUND
| Generating Options, Ideas, and Solutions Energize Solutions Sessions Effectively and Efficiently Unleashing Creativity and Innovation Harnessing the Synergy of “Creativity Thinking” and “Critical Thinking” Six Steps to Creative Problem Solving Decision Making: Turning Options into Solutions Idea Linking |
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