Pre-conference sessions are held on Saturday, June 21st from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday, June 22nd from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Lunch is included.

Pre-Conference choices include:

• Go Wild! Go Great! Creativity Safari: Applying Creativity to Contemporary Leadership
• Innovation Leadership: Essential Values for Creating Growth
• Zero to Participate (Z2P): Engagement Strategies to Increase Participation, Learning and Fun

The class sizes are limited, so sign up fast to hold your place. You'll be glad you did!

go wild! go great! creativity safari: applying creativity to contemporary leadership

Rosemary Rein [Read Rosemary's biography]

Travelers Advisory: Only for Serious Creativity Explorers. In this action packed learning adventure, Rosemary Rein, Author of "Go Wild! Survival Skills for Business and Life" and Resident of Costa Rica presents how the 5 Survival Skills needed in the Jungle represent the same skill set required in Creative Leadership.

In this interactive safari based on Dr. Rein's Go Wild Leadership Program participants will receive a Creativity & Leadership Survival Kit, filled with tools and techniques to improve creative problem solving and decision making, motivate and inspire staff, elevate customer service and achieve team goals.

Learning Objectives. At the end of the you will:

• Identify the 5 Skills required in Wilderness Surival applicable to Leadership, Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making;
• Apply the Word Survival to application of Creative Leadership Principles;
• Practice 5 Eco Experiential Techniques for improving the quality of The Team Brainforest and Collaborative Thinking;
• Have a Leadership Survival Kit with practical techniques and best practices to inspire and motivate a business work team on a daily basis;
• Demonstrate and Practice Relaxation Techniques inspired by Nature, for maintaining Psychological Hardiness and Creating and maintaining a Creative and Inspired Enviornment at home and at work;
• Review Contemporary Leadership Scenario and apply the Wilderness Survival Formula of "Worse Case Scenario" planning;
• Apply "Next Action" and "After Action Review" to achieving team and personal excellence.

innovation leadership: essential values for creating growth 

Bob Eckert [ Read Bob's biography ] | Jonathan Vehar [ Read Jonathan's biography ]

This program provides an introspective look at the values required to be a leader of innovation.

At the intersection of leadership and innovation is a powerful role that creates change and (hopefully), growth.  While both topics individually are huge, studying the overlap yields a rich set of techniques, behaviors, attitudes and values.  This workshop starts at the top of the ladder by focusing on the values required to lead innovation: Humility, Courage, Curiosity, Tenacity and Integrity.  We’ll explore how these critical values relate to bringing newness into the world and how you can embrace these values to create the change you want to see in your world.  This session is interactive and will ask you to reflect on how you lead and how you want to lead to create growth through innovation.    

 Key Benefits: 

• Commitment to values which enable teams to solve problems and create opportunities;
• Enhanced leadership and followership;
• Sharper focus on the individual’s role in making a great team;
• Greater sense of responsibility for enabling or blocking innovation;
• Increased focus on the critical role the leader plays in the evaluation of ideas;
• Reactions driven by conscious choice;
• Recognition of the importance of pushing forward risky new ideas;
• Enhanced understanding of how to take appropriate risks.

Course Objectives -- After the course, participants will be able to: 

• Apply the skills and techniques necessary to shift into their creative zone on demand;
• Demonstrate key behaviors necessary for the leadership of innovation;
• Use conscious listening skills to open up doors for innovation;
• Model and demonstrate behaviors that nurture creativity and invite innovation in co-workers;
• Gain insights into personal innovation and leadership strengths and key growth areas.

zero to participate (z2p): engagement strategies to increase participation, learning and fun

Bill Olsen [ Read Bill's biography ] | Eileen Doyle [ Read Eileen's biography]

This program offers the novice to the expert with the discovery, rationale and application of engagement strategies that can transform your future sessions to become memorable. Your participants will say, "You make learning fun!" Whether the next session you facilitate, train, teach or present is a ½ hour workshop or several days in a warm, window-less room, you’ll discover how to create the dynamic, interactive and yet practical participation that makes creativity happen...fast. You’ll experience how to effectively keep the energy up, timing right and participants engaged.

Rules of thumb we'll learn:

•  Get the group from zero to participate in the first 60 seconds;
• No talking heads. No boring meetings. No death by power point;
• Diverge - Converge is NOT just about CPS. Learn to really apply it;
• Participants will accelerate their attentiveness, understanding, consensus and buy-in.

Z2P Engagement Strategies we'll learn:

• Shape your personal beliefs to encourage transformative change;
• Go ahead... time me;
• Stuff that works every time;
• Setting the stage for participation;
• Boring activities changed into games;
• Share your favorite tools and techniques;
• Types, styles and profiles... and why it matters;
• Sticky dots to sticky walls: tools that move people;
• Secrets of diverge and converge (Tip! Volume & activity).

Learning Objectives - You will:

• Learn tools, techniques & strategies through real-time experiential participation;
• Learn why it works, when to use it, how to use it and the secrets for each tool;
• Learn why graduates said; "This should be mandatory training for all presenters.";
• Take away a notebook that you participate in creating.
  

Who should attend? Anyone who gets "in front" of a group: creativity consultants, group process facilitators, trainers, professors, coaches, team builders, OD consultants, Lean 6 Sigma facilitators, youth group leaders, ministers, keynoters, speakers, and more.

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