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Use creativity and design thinking to transform your work environment.
Do you want to add creativity and design thinking to make product improvements, better meet your customers’ needs, or solve problems that are holding your company back?
Do you want to want to use creativity and design thinking to create innovative new products, services, or systems that will expand and evolve your business to the next level?
If so, you need to create an innovative corporate culture and a creative friendly workplace environment. In this course, you’ll explore why creativity and innovation are more important for businesses today than ever before. You’ll examine why and how leading edge companies have turned conventional business culture models on their head through embracing creativity and how to protect your organization from being disrupted or left behind in a rapidly evolving business climate.
You’ll learn how to create a cultural environment that fosters creativity, including creativity blocks to avoid, like micromanaging and an over emphasis on efficiency, and how to establish an idea-response system for your managers, in order to encourage the open the sharing of ideas. Plus, you’ll find out why a creative corporate culture is the key to attracting and retaining great talent, increasing moral and productivity, and ultimately you’re company’s bottom line.
You’ll learn best practices for unleashing your creative team’s potential by bringing together diverse perspectives and creating an environment that embraces risk taking and removes fear of failure.
You’ll learn what “thinking outside-of-the-box” really means and how to overcome the mental traps that hold back individuals and organizations. You’ll master your own creative thinking, so that you can bring your full potential to the team and accelerate your career. And, you’ll be able to teach creative thinking skills to your team, allowing them to reframe challenges into possibilities.
You’ll learn how to apply a powerful creative-problem-solving technique called The design thinking process will provide a blueprint for creating innovative creative products and services by helping your team:
· Understand the needs and problems faced by your customers and clarify the true problems holding back your business
· Question assumptions and explore alternative solutions that are beyond any preconceived limitations
· Identify requirements for a satisfactory solution and criteria for testing and identifying when goals have been met
· Generate out-of-the box ideas and a broad range of possibilities by using proven strategies like story mapping and powerful brainstorming processes
· Use hands-on approaches and tangible prototypes to experiment and test your ideas, helping you identify the best solutions that will make the biggest impact for your users and your organization.
If you are ready to transform your organization by bringing in creativity and design thinking this course is for you.
So, are you ready to transform your department, company, or business? If so enroll now, we look forward to seeing you in the course.
Guarantee: We know you will love this course. However, we offer a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee if the course does not meet your needs for any reason.
So who are we?
We are Joeel & Natalie Rivera. We own a digital media publishing company called Transformation Services, Inc. We provide training programs and curriculum development for entrepreneurs and small businesses. We also run a magazine and live events and conferences. We’ve worked with 300,000+ students, coaches and businesses from 195 countries. All of our programs are created based on over a decade of experience in education, business development and coaching, as well as my background in psychology, including my Master’s in Counseling and Education and my research on happiness for my dissertation for my PH.D. in Psychology.
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In this lecture we will go over what you will learn as well as the importance of creativity, innovation, and problem solving. The instructors will also be introduced.
Learn how creating a creative culture and encouraging innovation can impact your organization.
In this lecture we will go over strategies to gain insight through new perspectives and how to use mind mapping to think abstractly, rather than linearly.
In this lecture we will go over the process for stimulating insights and key factors for creating an environment that stimulates creativity-inducing flow states.
In this lecture we will go over counter-intuitive needs that exist that will increase overall organizational success and stimulate creativity, including encouraging play, allowing for idle time, and focusing on the overall happiness of staff.
In contrast to most corporate environments, a creative corporate culture requires all levels of staff and management to feel comfortable with and appreciated for sharing ideas. Rewarding creativity ensures the best ideas are brought to the table.
Explore the power of trigger questions, such as “how to”, and “what if”, which stimulate the mind to see possibilities and how to apply it to the work environment.
In this lecture we will go over tools and tips for individuals to develop their own creativity, such as establishing motivational rituals, Hypnopompic States, embracing failure, taking breaks, writing things down and much more.
In this lecture we will go over tools and tips for enhancing the physical working environment in ways that studies have shown to enhance creativity, including noise, colors, lighting, and social setting.
In this lecture we go over tips for empowering creative teams by providing the work environment, time, and structure for creative time, as well as tools for creative meetings.
In this lecture we go over the importance of having a diverse creative team, including diverse backgrounds, experience, personalities, and seniority, as well as interdepartmental collaboration and bringing in outsiders to create a creative and innovative environment.
In this lecture we go over the importance of establishing a system for collecting, responding to, and implementing ideas.
In this lecture we will addresses common workplace obstacles to creativity, such as meetings, email, micro-managing and interruptions.
In this lecture we will address cognitive biases that inhibit the ability to see solutions to problems, including functional fixedness and mental set.
In this lecture you will learn why this simple, non-linear problem-solving methodology used by designers can unlock innovation in your organization. Learn how it works, why it works, and the 5 phases of the model.
In this lecture you will learn why empathizing with and developing an understanding of your user or customer is vital in order to create effective innovation. You will also learn strategies for researching, including immersion, observation, and interviewing.
In this lecture you will learn how analyze what you’ve learned and use it to hone in on the true problem, based on the perspective of your customers.
In this lecture you will learn how to take what you’ve learned and generate creative ideas using strategies that avoid common road blocks to creative ideation.
In this lecture you will learn a powerful process for conducting group brainstorming sessions that encourage openness, divergent thinking, and big ideas.
In this lecture you will learn how to explore inexpensive, scaled down, rapid methods to prototype selected ideas, allowing your team to explore their ideas and further identify top ideas for testing.
In this lecture you will learn how to implement selected ideas by using prototypes in the real world, with clients. Assess user experience and success of the concept, leading to the next round of ideas, problem clarification, and prototyping.
In this lecture we will help you look to the future to anticipate changes within your own industry, as well as innovation in other industries that will change the landscape for your industry. Explore the possibility of creating revolutionary innovation in your industry, before the next generation of information and technology-savvy entrepreneurs disrupt your industry.
Congratulations you finished the course! In this lecture we will look at what we have covered and what the next steps are that you should take.
Explore creative ways to stand out from the crowd and expand your market share WITHOUT competing!
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