Creativity Skills

With Watt Works’ creativity skills training, you’ll not only be able to think creatively, but you’ll also find that you have the enhanced ability to solve everyday problems in structured and useful ways. By the end of this course, you’ll have a powerful methodology and toolkit for individual or group use and be able to confidently lead yourself and others through ideas generation, development, evaluation and selection.

Perhaps your organisation is seeking to improve its capacity for innovation? In a recent Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Market survey, 48% of executives cited lack of appropriate personnel as the most significant innovation challenges. Now, take a moment to consider what putting part of your workforce through this course could do for your organisation.

Courses are available at foundation level (2 days) and practitioner level (5 days). Alternatively, we offer creativity skills training combined with elements of our facilitation training in a single course (5 days).

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Creativity and Innovation Skills Training (2 Days)

Overview

Our 2-day Creativity and Innovation Skills training course provides a thorough grounding in the use of creativity skills and techniques within an organisational or team setting. Delegates will gain the ability to explore and solve everyday problems in structured and useful ways, and be able to lead themselves and others through ideas generation, ideas development, concept evaluation and selection.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Gain a broad understanding of creativity and innovation within an individual and organisational context,
• Understand their own style preferences for creativity and innovation,
• Use a structured approach to creativity and innovation,
• Understand and use a variety of creativity techniques for use within problem exploration, ideas generation, concept development, solution development and implementation,
• Understand the potential barriers to creativity and innovation within their own organisation,
• Define an appropriate action plan to improve and enhance their own – as well as their organisation’s – creativity and innovation skills on an ongoing basis.

Target Audience

The target audience for this course includes Business Analysts, Project Managers, Team Leaders, Change Managers, Change Agents, Senior Managers and anyone who wants to radically improve either their own capability for creativity or the capacity for creativity and innovation within their department or organisation.

Course Content

Course content includes:

• Introduction to Creativity and Innovation,
• Exploration of Innovation Strategies,
• The Context of Innovation,
• Individual Factors and Styles of Creativity,
• A Structured Framework for Creativity,
  – Problem Exploration Techniques
  - Ideas GenerationProblem Exploration Techniques
  - Option Selection Techniques
  - Concept Development Techniques
  - Solution Development and Implementation Techniques
• Organisational Factors for Creativity,
• Personal Action Planning for Creativity.

Cost and Location

Attendance on this 2-day course is available at a cost of £520 + Vat (inc. all materials, lunch and refreshments).

The course is available at one of our luxurious training premises across the UK …

Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire – An 18th Century manor house set in 220 acres in the heart of the Cheshire countryside – within easy reach of Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Birmingham, Wrexham and Chester and the counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands and Flintshire. Delegates will be able to enjoy the beautiful parkland, woodland walks along with the extensive sporting facilities available.

Carlton House, Westminster, London – This stylish and comfortable venue has been extensively modernised whilst retaining its period character and boasts high quality, comprehensively equipped training rooms ideally suited for the delivery of the company’s growing range of business and personal development focused training courses. Although situated in a desirable, easily accessed location close to Pall Mall, traffic noise is minimal and delegates can experience a sense of comparative tranquility whilst engaging in their learning.

Grosvenor House on Glengall Street, Belfast – This is a comfortable and well equipped training venue located in the heart of Belfast. It boasts well-appointed training rooms within a minute’s walk from the Europa Bus and Train Station and less than five minutes from the City Hall. The venue’s excellent location puts it in immediate proximity to major transport links, a variety of hotels catering for all budgets and it is a stone’s throw from some of Belfast’s most famous cultural landmarks such as the Grand Opera House, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the famous Crown Liquor Saloon, a perfectly restored Victorian public house operated effectively as a working museum by the National Trust.

Course Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.