Creativity in Action: What Facilitators Need to Know to Lead Innovation

When
09/27/2019
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location
Government Accountability Office (GAO), 441 G St, NW, Washington, DC, 7th floor, Room 7N36, classroom 9
Spaces left
0

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Now more than ever all organizations and individuals need skills of innovation—the ability to flexibly embrace change in order to improve what's now and create what's next. Creativity is the engine of innovation, and this workshop will identify and apply the key creativity principles, competencies and processes that all facilitators should know to foster innovation in any group. This will be a full-engagement workshop, as participants will get to experience creativity for themselves—both through individual and collaborative creative exercises and multiple-intelligence challenges, and through learning and participating in a creative problem solving process that can be used with any group needing innovative solutions.

Participants will:

Identify the key definitions, principles and competencies of creativity and innovation, and integrate them into live learning.
Explore the universal creative problem solving process and design thinking by taking on a group brainstorming challenge.
Experience interactive ice-breakers, exercises and multiple-intelligence challenges that foster creative thinking and innovative solutions in any group.

About the Presenters

Adam Shames is a creativity expert, organizational consultant, facilitator, speaker and musician/poet whose 150+ clients have ranged from Whole Foods to McDonald’s, Panasonic to the Federal Reserve, universities to associations, techies to teachers to any group that wants to innovate and collaborate better. As founder and principal of the Kreativity Network, for more than 20 years he has designed and led leadership retreats, strategy sessions, creativity workshops and collaboration experiences for thousands of adults and youth. He is the author of the e-book TeamBreakers: Ice-breakers and Team Challenges to Spark Connection, Creativity and Collaboration, and his blog, Innovation on my Mind, offers nearly 200 articles exploring personal and professional creativity. Adam has been executive director of a non-profit interfaith creativity program, and is a former “Teacher of the Year” with a master’s degree from Stanford University.

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