Business Skills Training :Managing Innovation and Creativity

Managing Innovation and Creativity

Business Skills Training Overview

Businesses are constantly looking for innovative ideas that will put them one step ahead of their competitors. In order to arrive at a truly new idea, a team leader or manager must understand how to manage the innovation process. This course offers effective managerial strategies that address the organizational aspects of managing a creative team, supporting that creativity, moving an idea to implementation, and troubleshooting ideas to help guide a team through the innovation process.

Courses Objecties:

You will identify how a creative team works and what your role is as team leader. You will explore how to lead a creative team from idea to implementation and how to troubleshoot problems in the innovative process.

Prerequisites

Recommended courses: Business Writing, Presentations and Practical Leadership.

Delivery Method:

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities

Target Student;

Any manager or team leader who wants to guide a team of creative individuals to maximum productive innovation.

Hardware Requirements

Pentium 90 MHz or higher processor, or Macintosh PowerPC.
Screen resolution of 800 x 600 set to 256 colors.

Software Requirements

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP Home Edition, or Window XP Professional.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0x, 5.5, 6.0, or Netscape Navigator (excluding 6.0 and 6.1).
Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0 or higher; Apple Quicktime 5.0 or higher; Macromedia Flashplayer 6.0.79 or higher; or Macromedia Shockwave 7.0.2, 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.1 or higher.
Turn off popup blocking (Windows XP with Service Pack 2 Internet Explorer users only). .

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

manage the creative environment.
examine the process of moving from idea to implementation

Course duration

0.5 Days

Business Skills Training outline

Lesson 1: Managing the Creative Environment

Topic 1A: Support Creativity
Topic 1B: Manage a Creative Team
Topic 1C: Troubleshoot the Creative Environment

Lesson 2: Moving from Idea to Implementation

Topic 2A: Choose the Best Project for Implementation
Topic 2B: Refine Ideas
Topic 2C: Decide to Implement or Abandon an Idea
Topic 2D: Troubleshoot During the Implementation Phase