BUS 610 - Enhancing Leadership Impact with Creativity Tools

Course Description

Increasing numbers of CEOs are acknowledging that creativity is the most important leadership quality for success in business. Creative leaders can generate real benefits for an organization: better systems and relationships, innovations in products and services, more effective marketing and promotion, and inventive solutions. In this engaging hands-on seminar, experience a variety of tools and strategies that allow you to unleash more of your creative potential, while tapping into the creative best of the individuals and teams you lead.

Topics

• Organizational and environmental factors that enhance creativity
• Strategies for removing personal and organizational barriers to creativity
• The benefits of individual and collaborative creativity practices
• Attitudes that result in creative breakthroughs
• How highly creative groups generate ideas and make decisions
• Tools for generating creative ideas during problem solving and or product development
• Strategies for addressing the challenge of introducing creativity to individuals and groups that may be initially resistant
• Process for using story-telling as a prompt to greater creativity