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Leadership for a Democratic Society
Transforming Organizations

Creativity in Organizations: A Focus on Leadership

Faculty: Roger L. Firestien

Overview: Leadership is the most important factor in determining whether an organization grows to be successful, creative and cutting-edge or stagnates and dies. To lead organizations that produce extraordinary results, leaders need to do four things:

Develop skill to nurture their creativity and the creativity of people in their sphere of influence
Create an environment that supports creativity
Set the direction or focus the application of creativity skills
Nurture and renew their own creativity so that they can nurture it in others

This session is designed to increase participants' ability to become deliberately more creative, lead teams more effectively, and utilize a step-by-step process called Creative Problem Solving to solve organizational problems and capitalize on opportunities. This course is designed to teach practical creativity skills that can be applied immediately and produce results. When individuals are trained in Creative Problem Solving, they learn tools to develop and implement solutions to problems systematically and effectively. They can create ideas for continuous improvement and make breakthroughs in organizational performance.

Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

Shorten the amount of time it takes to solve problems and implement solutions
Evaluate and solve real organizational problems
Create a focus to achieve continuous improvement
Generate and effectively evaluate ideas in groups
Build ideas for action and successful implementation
Develop solutions to organizational issues
Overcome obstacles to create possibilities
Lead creative problem-solving teams

Teaching Format : This program is experientially based. Participants will work on organizational problems in their areas of responsibility. By using this approach, participants learn creative problem-solving methods and develop specific action plans to achieve better results at work. An experiential, learn-by-doing format combined with cutting-edge accelerated training technologies allows participants to take an active role in their learning, collaborate with other teams members, and apply their newly acquired skills in the workplace.

Advance Preparation : Participants are given brief overnight assignments to prepare for the second and subsequent days of the workshop.

Learning Approach	Percent Time
Lecture/discussion	15
Small group exercises	25
Application and practice	60

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