Creativity and Innovation Seminar – Half Day and Full Day Formats are Available
Creativity Plus
This is a one of a kind training in creativity that will put your team in an unusually creative state . . .and keep them there as they
solve old familiar problems in new innovative ways!
This workshop is a dynamic one of a kind creativity experience.
It begins as Alexander Van Buren presents the key distinctions he elicited during a two-year behavioral
modeling project designed to identify the key processes of creativity, genius, and innovation.
About This Creativity And Innovation Seminar
Creativity Plus is a unique creativity and innovation seminar experience.
Specific processes for accessing the creativity patterns of Walt Disney are covered in detail. They are followed by the patterns of genius that have been modeled from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
Finally, the specific questions and criteria used to stimulate innovation, drawn from Peter Drucker’s work, are developed and explored in detail.
These initial themes are then applied to your specific challenges and current obstacles in an upbeat ’round robin’ session. Everyone is invited to participate and join in as a brainstorming and creativity session par excellence unfolds!
The result is a refreshing new way of solving problems and a breakthrough in both the number and quality of new ideas and solutions.
This presentation is accompanied by Alexander’s original mind map.
The training has had a profound effect on several organizations and led to breakthrough’s in sales, marketing and company strategy.
Participants come away with an expanded perception of what is possible, a new way of looking at old familiar problems and difficulties as well as an improved ability to solve problems.
This unique workshop often results in innovative ideas with bottom-line results.
Creativity and Innovation Seminar Formats
This training may be presented as
* As a half day workshop
* As a full day seminar
Your Trainer
Alexander Van Buren is the president and senior trainer at Skill Builder Seminars LLC.
His first behavioral modeling project was conducted over 19 years ago.
Determined to elicit the structure of creativity in detail, he read Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks every day for two years, while reverse engineering Walt Disney’s creative process in detail.
The project loosed a flood of creative ideas and led to 18 years of formal behavioral modeling projects, over 200 original models and dozens of therapeutic interventions.
His original interventions have been published in Anchorpoint magazine, The Sourcebook of Magic, (Crown House Publishing) and the Big Book of NLP.
Van Buren has been a featured presenter at the Stanford Executive Program Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
This training includes his original mind map and a process called The Disney Creativity Diamond™ – a step by step method for generating, evaluating, planning and implementing new ideas and innovative strategies.
“There is always apprehension when you bring in a facilitator you have not personally worked you changed our whole way of viewing our business.
Your practical approach to problem-solving from the general to the specific will serve us all for many years to come.”
David P. Verani
Division President, Bluegreen Land And Golf Corporation
The Patterns of da Vinci, Disney, And Drucker
The specific syntax for the creative patterns of Walt Disney is covered in detail. They are followed by the patterns of genius that have been modeled from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
Finally, the specific questions and criteria used to stimulate innovation, drawn from Peter Drucker’s work, are developed and explored in detail.
Exercise as a group: Round Robin Reframing
Hand out: Alexander’s original mind map
Creative Breakthroughs
In this session, we’ll apply a heightened state of creativity to your specific challenges and current obstacles in an upbeat ’round robin’ session.
Everyone is invited to participate and join in as a brainstorming and creativity session par excellence unfolds!
In this module, your trainer will be using a set of methods for keeping the group in the elevated creative state that has been created.
Various situations are brought up as people solve and generate new ideas and potential solutions to them in their heightened state of creativity.
This module has resulted in public companies re-designing their marketing, strategy and sales systems and has been instrumental in creating breakthroughs for individuals and teams.
Hand out: Applying Creativity Patterns to YOUR Challenges
Exercise in pairs – Creativity Circles
Open Frame
In which we spontaneously adjust our plan for the rest of the day, based on the number and quality of new ideas, and the goals of your team.
Evaluation
In this phases of the Disney Creativity Diamond™, your group will use a special method to evaluate the numerous ideas and strategies they’ve come up with and prepare them for the planning and implementation phases.
Your company mission, values, and goals will be used to evaluate your new ideas.
In addition, you’ll learn and practice a special method for evaluating ideas and possible courses of action more effectively. You’ll use your own values-based criteria and questions for determining the worth, feasibility and ecology of each potential solution or path of action.
Hand out: How To Evaluate Creative Ideas
Exercise: in groups of 3 or more: Evaluating
Implementation
Begin to construct a plan for implementing one or more of the ideas and breakthrough’s from earlier sessions. The depth, detail and amount of planning are determined by you and your group.
A final exercise for rolling out the best ideas of the day is the perfect ending to this breakthrough experience in creativity.
Hand out: Questions for Implementation
Exercise: Your plan
Bring This Creativity and Innovation Seminar
On-Site For Your Team
Custom designed versions of this training are available.
For special group rates and modules please call 972-689-3749
or Inquire Online.
Get Individual Training
You can do this complete training as an individual.
As Phone Coaching: Using a set of over the phone sessions
As Online Training: With a live trainer using GoToMeeting
Both of these formats include all the handouts from our live training.
Assignments and action steps are also included.
The curriculum can be customized especially for you.
To Inquire
Call 972-689-3749.
Make an online seminar inquiry
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