Advanced CPS Classes
Completion of Springboard is a prerequisite for participation in any of the Advanced CPS courses. The Advanced CPS program provides you the opportunity to further identify, explore and develop the skills necessary to be a more effective leader and facilitator of the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) Process. This program is composed of several workshops—you may enroll in just ONE during CPSI 2010.
Building Teams
Building Teams
As a team member, you'll gain hands-on experience designed to help inspire and support effective and creative behaviors within the context of a team.
Whether you're a team member or a team leader you will:
- Experience and gain insight into yourself as a team member through multiple interactive problem solving and team building activities,
- Identify creative behaviors that are useful as a team member and a team leader,
- Gain exposure to foundational and cutting-edge thinking about team development and highly functioning teams and
- Use the CPS process to solve problems within the context of a team.
Facilitation by Design
Intersections: Exploring CPS Session Design through Architecture
This course will have two parallel paths! First, we'll explore what design means metaphorically, using inspiration from Daniel Pink's work in “A Whole New Mind” and borrowing from art, architecture and other worlds, so we can bring new thinking to how a CPS session can be designed. You will explore your impressions, perceptions, and preferences from a variety of sources, including a field trip to Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin House, an "architectural" walk about the downtown area, and through the use of various artistic mediums. Simultaneously we'll share insights and details about what works for us when designing CPS sessions for internal and external clients. We will use each participant’s own design challenge as a base to explore, expand, and practice design throughout the week. Based on this new thinking, each participant will create a structure of their own from which they can design future sessions.
More specific learning points will focus on initial client meeting, participants and selection process, setting the environment, structure/timeline, tools, materials, and report/deliverables.
Come ready to use your left brain and right brain in this new offering for people who want to create and facilitate CPS sessions.
Tools & Techniques
Learn to experience, share, practice and create tools and techniques for facilitating the CPS process in personal and professional settings.
Through T&T you will:
- Explore a variety of divergent and convergent techniques for individual and group problem solving,
- Learn how and where to apply different tools within the CPS process,
- Practice facilitating tools and
- Discover how to adapt, morph, and create tools to meet the needs of specific situations.
Facilitating CPS
Facilitation skills are central to the effective use of CPS, whether in formal idea generation sessions or in meetings where problems are discussed and solutions generated. This course is designed for those wishing to solidify their knowledge of the CPS process and enhance their skill in facilitating all stages of CPS. Elements of successful facilitation will be identified and practiced, and participants will develop an awareness of their own strengths and of the areas in which they can improve.
It is recommended but not mandatory that participants take Tools and Techniques prior to taking this facilitation class.
In this class, you will:
- Practice CPS on real world problems, including exploring the challenge, generating ideas and preparing for action,
- Experience CPS from several points of view, including as facilitator, problem owner, resource group and observer,
- Explore and develop your personal facilitation style,
- Receive feedback on your facilitation.
You will be challenged to step into new territory and stretch your belief about what is possible for yourself.
Integrating Creative Leadership
ICL is the capstone class in the FCL program. Completion of Springboard and a minimum of three FCL classes (Facilitating CPS, formerly known as Developing Facilitative Leadership; Building Teams; and either Facilitation Through the Arts or Tools and Techniques) is a prerequisite for this course.
In this program we will integrate the experiences and skills of previous FCL courses as we get in touch with who we are as creative people and how it shapes our ability to lead others (and, ourselves) and to create resourceful environments. This course, with its conceptual and experiential framework, will extend FCL behaviors and insights and challenge participants to mastery-level practice.
Our key goal is to move beyond basic tools and applications of creative problem solving to broader thinking and practice in which creative leadership is foundational to life and work. In ICL, we will focus on both knowledge and discovery. That is, we want to respect and use what you already know or have experienced about creative leadership and to encourage a process of discovery, an exploration of the unknowns. We will also strive to achieve a balance between theory and application. As a participant you will:
- Create learning outcomes tailored to your specific needs and opportunities and to your individual circumstances of leadership.
- Reflect on your personal leadership style and life experiences in relation to contemporary models of leadership.
- Reaffirm and bolster the connection between imagination, CPS and being a whole leader.
ICL is intended for people seeking to develop new awareness, behaviors and tools for their informal and formal leadership roles. Join us and leave with practices and resources to help individuals, organizations and communities work with transformation.
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