• Employees and teams working in highly competitive, emerging or mature industries

• Start-ups;

• Those looking to learn advanced problem-solving skills while enhancing team collaboration and productivity;

• Individuals and teams desiring revitalization;

• Gain a competitive advantage and through innovation and lead their field.

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• Enhanced creative thinking and problem-solving skills

• Shared language

• Improved communication

• Collaboration

• Appreciation of diverse points of view

• Suspended judgment/groupthink

• Enhanced conflict management

• Increased productivity

• Innovation

Key Learnings

The Conditions that stimulate creative thinking;

How to generate and curate ideas that lead to commercially-viable products, services, strategies and business models;

How individuals and teams can transform creative thinking into a competitive advantage;

The kinds of processes that can be put into place to create a culture of creativity in the organization.

The Creativity and Innovation Program involves coaching methods and tools designed to immerse businesspeople in the latest prevailing intelligence available on creativity and innovation. Its approaches influenced by numerous traditions including organizational development, neuroscience, psychology, sports, change theory, and the latest research in the field of human development.

People tend to think that the creative gene is reserved for artists, but nothing can be further from the truth. Artists have artistic talents such as drawing, singing, dancing, painting, acting, and the like. But creativity can be applied as much to the arts as it can to finance, building business, or any other endeavour.

When you think of your team you know that most individuals are highly intelligent, knowledgeable, experienced contributors. You can’t for the life of you figure out why people can’t just get along and do great things. If only they’d collaborate, all our problems would be solved.

"The economy is bad, so it only makes sense that we can’t deliver at the same level."

"With people’s jobs at risk, it’s no wonder productivity is low."

"With the rapidly-changing landscape in technology, we’re at a loss for a new business model to keep us afloat."

Should these obstacles stand in our way, or can we use them to propel us to higher levels of creative thinking leading to innovation?

The issue in organizations is not the external factors that limit us. It is our thinking behind these external factors – the assumptions, beliefs, limitations and judgements we place on ourselves and others — and how we approach solutions.

The Creativity & Innovation Program demystifies how we can think creatively to collaborate, gain a competitive advantage and achieve our loftiest goals. It breaks down the process to help us reconnect with that innate ability we all possess and channel it for commercial success.

Workshops for teams

The Creativity and Innovation Program is highly impactful as a workshop for a team or organization, and is customized to its unique needs.

If you are interested in bringing the Creativity and Innovation Program to your organization as a workshop, or if you’d like more information about the program, please contact us.

For individual employees

12 Individual one-on-one sessions:*

• The initial session – 2 hours

• The remaining 11 sessions – 1 hour/session

*The Creativity and Innovation Program can be fulfilled in 12 sessions. Given the individual nature of coaching, session counts may be extended to 15. The coaching engagement is tracked with the client throughout the process in order to fit their budget and needs.

How sessions are conducted

The initial session of two hours is conducted in person. If the individual is based outside Toronto, sessions are conducted on Skype with video or by phone.

Remaining sessions may be conducted in person, on Skype with video or by phone.

If you are interested in booking the Creativity and Innovation Program for individual employees or for your team, or if you’d like more information, please contact us.

Public workshops

Public workshops are occasionally held in Toronto. If you are interested in hearing about upcoming workshop dates, please contact us to sign up for announcements.

Keynotes

Keynotes on Creativity and Innovation are customized to the audience and time available. If you are interested in inviting Robin to address your group or association, please contact us.

For more information contact:

Robin Altman

Email

416 737 4629