Facilitating Creativity, Change and
Leadership Capability
What if you and your team created solutions more effectively...and made them
happen?
Creativity, change and leadership play a major role in today's workplace.
Creativity and innovation dominates the corporate cultures of today's most
successful organizations.
Provider: PTS (Professional Training Services)
Date: Friday 18 October 2002 (RSVP: Monday 7 October)
Venue: QV.1 Conference Centre (Function Room) Level 2, 250 St
Georges Tce.
Investment: $395 per participant (includes workbook, administration of
the BCPI instrument to assess your preference when solving problems
and thinking creatively, handouts, lunch, refreshments and 10% GST).
Relevance to Public Sector
Skills in breaking through creativity have strategic importance, affecting
every facet of product or service design, development, innovation, promotion
and delivery.
Professional success is linked to the ability to master creativity, to
operate as a creative problem solver, and to read and act on change.
The strength and effectiveness of your team depends on their ability to
solve problems together
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Aim
The main purpose of the workshop is to introduce the CPS (Creative Problem
Solving) Model - also known as the Buffalo Method - and to explore the
connections between organizational change and transformation, facilitation
and leadership.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to assess your personal style for
creativity and problem solving by using the BCPI (Buffalo Creative Process
Inventory). The BCPI is a psychometrically reliable instrument that will
help you recognize your preferences/style for different aspects of the
creative process.
What is CPS?
CPS is a framework and thinking organizer for managing change, realizing
goals and solving ill-structured or defined problems.
CPS is a multilevel process that generates, evaluates, develops, refines and
implements solutions to opportunities and problems.
CPS is a flexible and all-purpose framework that allows for change at all
levels of the organisation.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this program you should be able to:
* Assist teams leveraging their creative strengths and improve performance
* Apply deliberate processes and a practical skill set for individual and
group problem-solving
* Improve your capacity to think creatively about challenges and
opportunities
* Develop expertise in facilitating problem-solving teams
* Enhance your ability to manage diverse groups
* Increase your effectiveness in decision-making
* Develop, implement and support an environment that nurtures creative
thinking
* Work with a problem solving and change model that has undergone more than
30 years of research, development, and application
* Use facilitation skills that enable you to perform as a transformational
leader and to conduct more productive meetings
* Implement strategies to nurture the creative talent of others
* Enhance your ability to use problem solving tools to define complex
problems, to generate creative solutions, and to transform solutions into
action
* Develop skills that enhance all aspects of your life (i.e. become a better
professional, parent, community member, etc.)
* Experience intellectual challenge and growth, stretch your mind in new
ways and with new concepts, learn new habits that put you in control of
change
Who should attend
This program is aimed at developing creative leaders and assisting
reflective practitioners (leaders, managers, consultants, trainers,
facilitators, HR personnel and other professionals) in leading change,
nurturing their own and other's creative thinking skills, and enhancing
their understanding of creativity and its many applications.
Anyone interested in creativity and its many applications and willing to
explore future possibilities for themselves, their team and/or organisation.
Anyone interested in applying practical leadership and in using theories
facilitating creative learning and problem solving.
Methodology
This hands-on workshop presents the CPS (Creative Problem Solving)
methodology developed over the last 30 years at the International Center for
Creativity Studies at Buffalo, New York.
The workshop will use a mixture of short presentations, group discussions,
small group exercises, and participants' presentations and facilitation
Presenter
Sebastian Salicru is a Psychologist, Founding Principal Member of the
Association of Business Psychologists and Nationally Accredited Workplace
Trainer who specializes in learning and development, organizational
transformation and team coaching. He is currently undertaking postgraduate
studies and research at the International Center for Creativity Studies in
Buffalo (NY).
On-line registration (major credit cards accepted)
PTS (Professional Training Services)
PO Box 43
WEST PERTH WA 6872
Ph: 08-9380 8348
Fax: 08-9380 8300
info@pts.net.au
www.pts.net.au
Cancellation policy: No refunds will be provided after Friday 4 October 2002
PTS reserves the right to alter this program and venue without notice.
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