Corporate Creativity & Innovation Fitness
Creativity. Innovation. These are the secret weapons in an organization's competitive arsenal. In this age of downsizing, overhead reduction and restructuring, a company's ability to rethink and reinvent how they do what they do has never been so vital to corporate success.
Who's Creative? You Are!
Creativity and imagination produce today's most valuable currency – innovation. A company's best ideas for creating or improving products or services come not only from outside consultants and focus groups, but from the keen observations of people at all levels of the organization. Innovative contributions can emerge from anyone who is able to harness their creativity to solve problems.
Corporate creativity doesn't stem from hiring more creative people, but rather from creating an environment that allows innovation and creativity to happen. Companies often need to inject a healthy dose of fun and laughter into the mix. One of our many half-day or one-day creativity workshops can help management and employees discover their own talents and abilities in a safe and playful environment.
What's Your "Innovation Fitness" Level?
Day-to-day routines can stifle corporate and employee innovation. Does your organization have the framework in place to deliver and manage innovation? Together we can help guide your team through some core exercises to becoming innovation fit:
- What is the climate we need to create to be able to brainstorm more effectively?
- What are the elements to productive innovative thinking, as opposed to 'pie in the sky' creativity?
- How do we foster collaborative work so that many minds can be applied to meeting one challenge?
- What are some new ways to think about combining ideas?
All of these experiences empower teams to produce results that are fresh and workable. As well, you learn how to support and foster workplace innovation.
Corporate Creativity & Innovation Workshops
All of our creativity workshops incorporate arts-based activities, allowing you to explore the process. Engaging with one of the arts transports you to a world of innovation and creativity. What's best is that no artistic skills are necessary! Creativity and innovation workshop participants learn creative strategies that can be directly applied to the workplace:
- Keen observation and listening skills
- Flexibility
- Building on the ideas of others
- Stepping beyond the comfort zone
- Combining thoughts and ideas in new ways
- More effective, spontaneous brainstorming
- Creating an innovation toolbox
Whether it is in Toronto, Ottawa or across Canada, we can custom design creativity programs – from two-hour creativity workshops to two-day creativity training retreats – for groups from 10 to 400. Contact us to learn more about our creativity programs – workshops & training.
About Beyond the Box
Human innovation is an infinite well of value in the new economy, allowing companies and organizations adapt, survive and prosper in fast-changing markets. Since 1998, Beyond the Box has been offering creativity workshops and innovation training to government organizations as well as some of Canada's foremost companies. Read more about Beyond the Box.