Creativity and innovation are integral to an organization’s ability to survive and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace.
This course provides students with an understanding of how creativity and innovation can be facilitated and managed in a work setting.
Students will learn about theoretical conceptualizations of creativity and innovation as well as practical applications involved in fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace.
Students will be expected to play an active role in learning through class exercises, class discussions, and dialogue with guest speakers, and presentations about real (or planned) innovations in organizations.
Creativity and innovation are integral to an organization’s ability to survive and thrive in today’s competitive marketplace.
This course provides students with an understanding of how creativity and innovation can be facilitated and managed in a work setting.
Students will learn about theoretical conceptualizations of creativity and innovation as well as practical applications involved in fostering creativity and innovation in the workplace.
Students will be expected to play an active role in learning through class exercises, class discussions, and dialogue with guest speakers, and presentations about real (or planned) innovations in organizations.
We are all created (more or less equal).
You can increase your creativity.
If you don’t use it you will lose it.
Find a partner to your left. Play Rock, Scissors, Paper – Best of 10
One, two, three – shoot!
Find a Partner on your right. Play Rock, Scissors, Paper – Best of 10
Who wanted to win?
What were you thinking about? (Yourself, other person)
Participants think of self – want to beat the other person
Find a partner to your left. Play Tiger, Fireworks, Hello– Best of 10
One, two, three – shoot! Aargh, Boom, handshake / hello
Find a Partner on your right. Play Tiger, Fireworks, Hello– Best of 10
Who wanted to win?
What were you thinking about? (Other person, group)
Help participants think of others
Required Text: Creativity, Inc.: Building an Inventive Organization by Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman, ISBN: 1-57851-207-7, Harvard Business School Press.
Chapter 3 = making and breaking connections, and at the keys to successfully engaging that critical dynamic
Chapter 4 addresses the climate: the key to engaging the other dynamics of the creative process