Facilitation for Innovation: Inspiring Group Creativity

Description: Teaches ways to foster group innovation using facilitation tools and approaches that spark creativity. Facilitating group creativity for innovative action has always been a challenge, perhaps never more so than when a group is tasked to “think outside the box” on the spot and come up with new solutions to a problem or situation. This highly interactive course utilizes creative tools to explore and practice group innovation.

Participants learn methods that can be immediately applied to foster creative teamwork.

Outcomes:

• Facilitate processes to heighten and enhance a group’s creativity.
• Frame and reframe problems and dilemmas.
• Resolve issues and problems creatively.
• Develop innovative strategies.
• Expand toolkit with methods to enhance creativity methods with groups.

Benefits:

• Harnesses the power of creative collaboration to improve organization effectiveness.
• Exercises the creativity of the group members to develop innovative solutions.
• Helps the group view problems through a new creative lens.
• Builds confidence in applying multiple practical techniques and strategies for facilitating innovation.

Who Should Take this Course:

• Those who wish to develop the creative capacities of teams and groups
• Organizational change agents
• Project managers
• Team leaders
• Group facilitators
• Local, state, and federal leaders and program managers

Course Length: One Day

Prerequisite: None