Developing a Creative Mindset Course

Overview

All-New Course!

Creativity is the heart of every transformational, visionary leader. Any single individual is capable of transformative creativity. However, creativity is at its most powerful when it is cultivated with purpose, resulting in innovative teams and high-performing organizations. 

This course on Developing a Creative Mindset will provide the tools, tactics and insights you need to develop your strategic creativity as an individual, as the leader of a team and as a valued contributor to your organization. 

Over the four weeks of the course, you will establish an objective, foundational view of decision making and its importance in business, better understand yourself as a creative decision maker and explore specific decision-making strategies and methods. In applying these strategies and methods, you’ll develop yourself to become more strategic and decisive in your role, cultivate techniques to capitalize on the competitive advantages of a creative mindset within your industry and utilize tactics to maintain this creative mindset (and competitive edge) as your team and organization grow. 

What You’ll Learn

Creative Decision Making

• Understand how individuals make decisions and the limitations inherent in the decision-making process
• Recognize the pros and cons of key decision-making models
• Understand why individuals and teams sometimes fail to consistently devise creative solutions to problems

Techniques for Creative Decision Making

• Recognize the biases that affect individuals’ decision making
• Gain techniques for overcoming those biases and thinking more strategically
• Recognize your motivators as a creative decision maker

The Creative Power of Groups 

• Explore methodologies for cultivating creativity as a team
• Adapt and apply the best methodologies for creating an agile, high-performing team
• How to best approach and solve problems as a team
• Recognize the pitfalls of team creativity and how to avoid them

Creative Decision Making in Business

• Understand the competitive business advantages of cultivating a creative mindset within your team and your organization as a whole
• Gain practical techniques and tools for building and planning creative business strategies
• How to maintain and continuously develop a creative mindset to build a team and organizational culture of creativity and innovation

Who Should Register

The course in Developing a Creative Mindset is designed for:

• The aspiring leader, first-time supervisor and/or junior manager who desires to develop their own creative mindset and inspire a creative mindset within their team
• Mid-level managers who understand the business at an operational level and seek to gain a competitive advantage by fostering strategic creativity within their teams    
• Strategic decision makers who see uncertainty and change as opportunities for creative problem solving and innovation