PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Strategicplay® Facilitator Training with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY™
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Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, Stephen Walling
Lego Serious Play (LSP) is a facilitated thinking and communications technique which draws on research from the fields of business, organization development, psychology, and learning. Using hand-brain knowledge, this 3D process helps teams surface information, explore ideas, create better options, develop deeper knowledge, and identify solutions faster with 100% engagement.
In this workshop you will:
• Learn to develop and facilitate half-day LSP sessions
• Apply the four step processes to improve communication
• Identify when LSP can be most useful
• Avoid conversational roundabouts
• Use flow theory
• Explore and discuss ideas on a deeper level
• Create shared mental models to help teams perform their best
Participants experience both a client and a facilitator perspectives. LEGO® Serious Play™ has three stages at each building step: Build, give meaning, tell the story, and reflect.
De Bono Meets Creative Problem Solving
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Mary Ellyn Vicksta, Rob de Haas
People who use Creative Problem Solving (CPS) are always looking for new creative thinking tools to use in the different phases of the Creative Problem Solving model. Dr. Edward de Bono’s powerful parallel and lateral thinking tools can be beautifully integrated within the framework of CPS.
In this unique workshop, we share our experiences with integrating parallel and lateral thinking tools into the CPS methodology. The robust framework of CPS is enriched by a kaleidoscope of practical lateral thinking tools designed by Dr. Edward de Bono. The workshop allows participants to get the best of two proven approaches to creative thinking and creative problem solving, allowing them to walk away with a new toolset. We believe the best way of learning is by doing, so participants will be guided through highly interactive activities and work on their own challenges.
The training is designed on three pillars: knowledge, skills, and attitude. These three dimensions will serve as guidelines throughout the workshop.
Tech It Out
Nicola Smith
Technology is in a constant state of evolution and this evolution is often the catalyst and enabler for substantial positive innovation and change. And although these new technologies are all around us – tablets, mobile phones, games, interactive screens, we can’t always try them all. Get your hands dirty with some of the latest tech such as: Sphero, Siftables, Windows 8, Near Field Communication, RFID, and Gestural Interfaces during this interactive session.
The “Tech It Out” session plays off of the idea that being exposed to the latest technologies and inventions can drive creativity and imaginative thinking. This exposure canoften trigger new innovations, concepts and imaginative approaches to problem solving.
The Art of Innovation
How can an organization make innovation part of its DNA?
Developing creativity at a personal, team, and organizational level is a leadership imperative for thriving in a world of accelerating change. However, the roadmap for achieving this is often either elusive, overwhelming or insufficient to deal with the complexities of the leadership challenge in making creativity an integral part of their organization’s capabilities. Savvy leaders recognize that to make innovation thrive they need to simultaneously orchestrate changes in a number of different innovation drivers at different levels of the organization. The innovation drivers are:
• the Sources of efficient creativity (Talent, Energy, Method)
• a Structure to drive innovation (Individual, Team, Target, System)
• a Culture that makes creativity a potent force in an organizational context (Ideas, Engagement, Freedom, Humor, Risk)
This workshop introduces a model and set of elegant principles that makes these innovation drivers tangible (published by Dimis Michaelides in a book of the same title in 2007). Participants will learn practical tools and techniques for applying these principles thus enabling them to design and develop robust, innovative organizations.
Participants will also take an organization audit, which will enable them to assess their own organization’s innovation potential.
Through original presentations, exploratory activities, ventures into the visual arts and magic, the workshop will transform the complexities of organizational innovation into the realm of the possible and feasible.
Expected Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
• be able to recognize 12 key elements required to make innovation an integral part of any organization
• have audited their own organization and identified what supports and what inhibits innovation
• have initiated a plan to enhance their own organization’s innovation capability
• be able to apply fundamentals of creative method to organizational challenges
• be able to distinguish between “effective” and “innovative” teamwork
• be able to analyze and develop interventions for enhancing organizational innovation in different situations using the tools of a savvy innovation consultant
• be positively energized to apply all they have learned
Who needs The Art of Innovation?
Leaders and managers, trainers and consultants who recognize the compelling need for creativity to thrive in current times and are looking for a systematic approach to developing a sustainable capacity for innovation in organizations.
Synecticsworld’s Innovative TeamWorkshop™
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Have you ever wondered why some meetings ignite, leading to valuable new ideas while others, at best, go around and around in circles? Exploring that question – and turning our discoveries into a practical methodology has driven Synecticsworld® forward for fifty years.
Our highly experiential Innovative TeamWorkshop™ is foundational training on the Climate, Thinking, and Action critical to Breakthrough Innovation.
At this one-day workshop you will learn critical tools that will change the way you interact. You will learn
• How to treat ideas, your’s and other’s, to increase the odds of getting fresh ideas on demand.
• How to interact with yourself and with others to maximize the potential of the team.
• How to add greater dimension to the way you listen for ideas and suggestions
• How to get greater commitment to courses of action through by incorporating others’ ideas and views with your own.
• How to identify roles and responsibilities for yourself and others in any meeting to get the best outcome.
• How to get these breakthrough ideas over the threshold of acceptability and into innovation.
We look forward to sharing our body of knowledge with you, it will change the way you interact, and inspire the way you relate to your world.
Synecticsworld has never stopped our research and are continually building our body of knowledge, working with over forty percent of all Fortune 500 companies through our offices around the world.
One-Day Jump into CPS
Unable to join us for the two-day CPS course? Want to jumpstart your CPS knowledge? Then spend a concentrated day focusing on the key elements of applying creative thinking and problem solving both professionally and personally. In this accelerated program, you will learn the basics of applying creative thinking so that you can clarify problems, generate ideas, develop solutions and implement ideas on demand.
You will:
• Deliberately apply your imagination,
• Identify blocks to creativity,
• Share a common language and process for problem solving,
• Become more effective at working through obstacles,
• Recognize new opportunities for growth in your work and your life and
• Apply the tools and techniques of CPS while working on real problems, challenges and opportunities.