Course : Developing your team’s creativity

Fostering innovation

Developing your team’s creativity

Fostering innovation
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To nurture an innovative corporate culture, creating a constructive and flexible mindset is all-important. This course will show you how to assess a team’s innovative ability, experiment with key creative tools and methods, and develop an action plan for your team.


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Practical course in person or remote class

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Price : 1530 CHF E.T.
  2d - 14h00




To nurture an innovative corporate culture, creating a constructive and flexible mindset is all-important. This course will show you how to assess a team’s innovative ability, experiment with key creative tools and methods, and develop an action plan for your team.

Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
  • Nurture a culture focused on innovation
  • Conduct an audit of your team or company
  • Optimise your team’s creative intelligence
  • Use tools and methods to develop your creative potential
  • Evaluate innovation based on indicators

Intended audience
Any manager seeking to foster innovation within their team.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of group facilitation and motivation techniques.

Course schedule

Understanding the challenges of innovation

  • The difference between innovation and creativity.
  • The expected benefits. Barriers and hindrances to innovation.
  • Creativity as a new management style.

Carrying out an inventory

  • Conducting an audit of your team or company.
  • How the most innovative companies operate. Identifying your creative profile.
Hands-on work
Self-diagnosis.

Implementing an innovation process

  • Choose a strategy adapted to your company and your team. Manage obstacles, space and time.
  • Recognise innovation as a skill by involving human resources.
  • Systematise the search for ideas.
  • Optimize your team's creative intelligence.
  • Strengthen open-mindedness and cohesion.
Hands-on work
Creative confidence-building games.

Stimulating your employees' creativity

  • Methods to bring innovation to life on a daily basis.
  • Relationships of trust, partnership and creativity.
  • The art of asking thought-provoking questions.
  • Group dynamics.
Role-playing
Practising the art of constructive questioning.

Developing your creative potential

  • Tools, methods, advantages and limitations.
  • Practise divergent thinking. Heuristic divergence. Brainwriting. The six thinking hats.
  • Virtual consultant technique or role-storming.
  • Convergence. Building mental maps.
  • Intuition and recreational breaks.
  • Reprimands and the virtues of provocation.
  • Associative methods and metaphorical thinking.
Hands-on work
Application of these tools.

Building the innovation approach

  • Analysing objectives and reformulating the problem.
  • Coming up with new ideas.
  • The distinction between true good ideas and false good ideas.
  • The cycle: generation, protection and recycling of ideas.
  • Assessment and selection of solutions. Implementation.
Exercise
Drawing up an assessment matrix.

Assessing innovation

  • Qualitative and quantitative indicators.
  • Indicators for team cohesion.
  • Indicators for motivation.
  • Indicators for talent retention.

Building an action plan

  • Familiarisation with the approach.


Blended option – Overview of digital activities

Before your classroom - 1h10

  • Walt Disney and the art of making ideas a reality.
  • Ask the right creative questions.

After your classroom - 3h35

  • Getting ideas flowing.
  • Assess the level of healthy performance in my team.
  • Acknowledging your colleagues’ ideas.
  • Make creative ideas emerge.
  • Helping to implement ideas.
  • Boost group creativity.
Activités digitales
Interactive courses, serious game, quiz, summary sheet.


Practical details
Hands-on work
Self-diagnosis, simulation and implementation exercises
Teaching methods;
Active teaching based on discussions, an ongoing assessment and numerous implementation exercises.

Customer reviews
3,8 / 5
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Dates and locations
From 10 to 11 June 2024
FR
Remote class
Registration
From 4 to 5 November 2024
FR
Remote class
Registration