From: PTS \(Professional Consulting & Training Services\) (pts@pts.net.au)
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 16:56:26 WST
Creativity: An Essential L i fe Skill
(...and source of personal and professional advantage)
What would it be like if you and your team created solutions more
effectively...
and made them happen?
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Provider: PTS (Professional Training Services) Pty Ltd
Date: 18 March, 2004 (8:30am - 4:30pm)
Venue: Wollaston Conference Centre, Mt Claremont (ample free
parking)
Investment: $350 per participant (includes 10% GST, workbook, lunch and
refreshments)
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This workshop is designed to demystify Creativity.
Find out why you, your team and organisation, should care about
Creativity...
Relevance
The challenges of modern corporate, personal and community life cry out for
more creative and innovative solutions.
Creativity is a way of turning challenges into opportunities, seeing new
solutions to old problems, seeing old problems in new ways and anticipating
the future.
Professional success is linked to the ability to master innovation, to
operate as a creative problem -solver, and to read and act on change.
Breakthrough thinking skills are essential and also have strategic
importance, affecting every facet of product or service design, development,
promotion, delivery and evaluation or follow-up.
We all have the capacity to think creatively; in various ways, we are called
on to use our creative problem-solving skills on a daily basis.
Purpose
The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants with a clear
understanding of creativity and innovation, and the processes and skills
required for generating creative ideas and turning them into innovative
solutions that produce results.
Creativity and innovation in your team and organisation means:
* The capability to create new options
* The flexibility to embrace new ideas
* The passion for accepting only the best
* The ability to motivate under any circumstance
Deliverables - what you will you learn?
- The precise nature of creativity and innovation
- How to establish a climate and environment for creativity and innovation
- The true nature of creative thinking
- The barriers to creativity and how to overcome them
- A working model and suite of tools for working creatively with groups in
any setting
- Facilitation skills and strategies required to work creatively and
innovatively with teams
- Ways to generate new and better quality ideas and find innovative ways to
implement them
- The linkage between creativity and leadership
Recommended for
* Managers at all levels
* Product/service developers
* Human Resources personnel and practitioners
* Change agents/consultants
* Anyone seriously interested in applied creativity and innovation
Presenter: Sebastian Salicru is a Graduate from the International Center for
Studies in Creativity, State University of New York (SUNY). He is a
Registered Psychologist, Principal Founding Member of the Association of
Business Psychologists and Nationally Accredited Workplace Trainer.
- Registrations will be confirmed once payment is received.
- Registrations must be received by 10 March 2004
- Cancellation policy: No refunds will be provided 10 working days prior
to the event or later.
- PTS reserves the right to alter this program and venue without notice.
Registration (Click here) - Major credit cards accepted
PTS (Professional Training Services) Pty Ltd
PO BOX 1628
SUBIACO WA 6904
Telephone: 08-9380 8348
Fax: 08-9380 8300
Web site: www.pts.net.au
Email: info@pts.net.au
PTS (Professional Training Services) provides futuristic thinking and
innovative solutions to achieve new organisational possibilities. PTS
presents clients with practical options that empower you to take confident
and tangible actions to attain your vision.
Results through INNOVATION
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