Honig IdeaGuides: Meeting Facilitation & Training

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As a leading innovator in creativity development we ensure that the attendees of this workshop will become better ideators. Being able to generate ideas, good ones, is a survival skill that few know how to master, and that is what we train at this BootCamp-like training. This is the competitive boost that your organization needed -- yesterday.

We are recognized experts in creativity. Experience matters in this field -- During our 27 years of doing this work we have finely honed our insight into both the people side and business side of effective creativity training and development. This commitment to ongoing refinement has produced a lasered effectiveness in teaching people and organizations to source and initiate better solutions. Some of our clients includes: Coca-Cola, Mattel Toys, Pergo, Inc., eBay.

Founder and lead facilitator, Bruce Honig, knows what makes a person, any person, more skillfully creative. Passionate about the importance of skillful idea generation as essential to life success, he focused early in his career (Grad School) on how to develop creativity. He is an inventor of 6 creativity games, including CREATE, featured in Neiman Marcus stores and a published author of numerous newsletters, articles and books on this subject.

As Organizational Development specialists we know how to build an innovative organization. And as curriculum design experts we know how to transfer our knowledge to you.

Attendees will learn how to access the magic in individual and collective idea generation. They learn the key elements that go into making organizations successful through innovation. They learn how to make sure that their strategic visions are fulfilled.

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This workshop is highly interactive, engaging, fast paced, fun and productive. At times exhausting but always exhilarating. We use a large variety of training activities, such as videos, games, group and individual exercises. Expect lots of variety of formats that reach all types of learners. There will be large and small group activities as well as introverted (working independently) and extroverted (working in groups) activities. We use accelerated learning techniques making learning quick, amusing and productive.

Great Organization Building Opportunity
Whether the participants regularly spend time with each other or not, this training program will also provide ample opportunity for each person to connect and build important relationships with other participants.

Before the Aha! Experience
The attendees will be completing three quick assessments in order to tailor the workshop to their needs and be able to determine their progress.

After the Aha! Experience
The focus of our training program is to take the skills and knowledge back to work place and use it. The attendees will be leaving the workshop with three different plans: One for themselves, another for their team, and lastly, for their organization.



Workshop
W orkbooks

Each participant will receive these two handbooks

Creativity and Innovation Workbook
How to Cultivate Creativity and Innovation in Yourself and Others:
A Handbook

Creative Collaboration
Creative Collaboration:
Simple Tools for Inspired Teamwork



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Honig IdeaGuides
San Francisco Bay Area
415-479-2028

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The Aha! Experience

Innovation & Creativity

Become More Creative and Innovative

Creativity Training
Do you and your team have the Creativity Skills
to survive today's world and marketplace?


This training program is about surviving massive changes through innovation. By the end of this program, you WILL consistently produce effective, mind blowing ideas so that you can even thrive in today's challenging world and business environment.

One of the most important survival skill there is today is innovative thinking (or if you prefer: “Thinking Out of the Proverbial Box”). This course focuses on “how to.” How to not only survive, but how to thrive. Thriving by producing: 1) great viable solutions, 2) incredibly creative and productive teams, and 3) an innovative organization. Developed by experts in the field of creativity, this uniquely designed, highly interactive and engaging learning event will leave you with your 'Next Level' Creative Survival Skills.

At the High Level, the participants will learn how to…

• Spot the next great idea
• Generate great ideas in groups and find the best ones
• Stimulate and inspire others to be creative
• Become aware and deal with key personal and organizational creative blocks
• Build a personal and business environment for innovation to thrive

Specifically, the participants will learn...

Themselves as a Creative Person
• How to generate more and better ideas than the participant could ever before, for any project or problem
• How to broaden creative scope, ability and skills (in part, by learning ways to systematically experiment with new ideas, modify and improve existing ideas and solutions, explore uncharted territory and shift perspective, and visualize and inspire future ideas)
• A variety of approaches and tools to enable creative idea generation (ideation)
• To explore and eliminate blocks and barriers to personal creative action
• Ways to exercise and practice ones own creativity
• Build a personal commitment to working creatively in order to develop innovative products/services

The Creative Team
• Learn over 9 ways to foster a more creative and collaborative team environment and spirit
• Use at least 10 easy and powerful idea generation and decision making tools for the collaborative team
• Understand the blocks that get in the way from being a creative team
• Know the many ways to practice your team creativity and warm-up a group

Innovative Leadership in the Organization
• Learn how to create a business environment that is conducive to innovation
• Create a blueprint for encouraging creativity and innovation in everyone at ones organization
• Understand the key organizational blocks to innovation and what to do to minimize them
• Navigate your innovation towards fulfilling ones organizations mission and goals
• Establish next steps and a game plan for innovation

BootCamp Agenda

Before the Aha! Experience
attendees will complete the following...

• Creativity Questionaire: Determine your expectations and goals to tailor the training
• Innovation Styles™ Questionaire: Determine your Innovation Style
• Ideation Pre-Test: Test your creative quotient which will increase as a result of this training
Day One Day Two Day Three
The Creative Self The Creative Team The Innovative Organization
Welcome
Review
Review

Develop Creativity Concepts & Awareness

Why Bother with Innovation?

The Innovation Process
How to generate more ideas just by knowing how to use the process

How Are You Innovative?
Innovation Styles: learn the ways you are creative, how to maximize your type of innovation and how that might differ with others.
The Four Traits: vision, knowledge, risk taking and passion

What Specifically Do You Need to Improve to be More Creative?
Divergence, originality and elaboration

Develop Creativity and Awareness

9 Keys for Generating Ideas in Teams
How to make use of the whole team

Power of the Team
Experiments in exploring perception, multiple perspectives and assumptions


Develop Innovation Concepts and Awareness

Learn Two Models for
creating a business environment that supports innovatio
n

The Eggcellent Relay Race™
Using innovation for process improvement

Caffeine for the Creative Mind: Exercising Your Innovation

Learn five ways to use your creativity before it really matters

The Creative Problem Solving Obstacle Course

Caffeine for the Mind: Exercising Your Teams Creative Muscles

Brainstormers™
Gameshow-like activity using the creativity of a team

Barriers and Tools for Creating an Inspiring Workplace

Organizational barriers and blocks to innovation
Learn the tools for inspiring innovation


Idea Spotting: Use Tools for Generating Creative Ideas

How generate ideas and solutions on your own. What you need to know and do
4 easy to use tools for generating out-of-the-box ideas

Idea Spotting: Use Tools for Generating Creative Ideas

Learn how to generate ideas and solutions with a group. What you need to know and do
Learn how to evaluate ideas to get the best one in a team

Caffeine for the Mind: Exercising Your Organization's Creative Muscles

Solution Speedway™
A fun, fast-paced event where you get solutions to your organizational problem while demonstrating a powerful tool for generating ideas

Know Thy Blocks and Barrier

What Gets in Your Way?
Examine Your Blocks
Perceptual, emotional, cultural and environmental, intellectual and expressive block

Know What Blocks the Team

Identify blocks that exists in teams and what to do about it

Innovation Harvesting

Use tools for inspiring creativity in others

Creating a plan for navigating your innovative organization (department/team)

On the Job Application: Personal Creativity Plan

Create personal commitments to enhancing ones creativity

On the Job Application: Team Plan

Develop a plan for applying the concepts and tools to the team

On The Job Application: Committments

Your next steps to creating innovation for your organization Quick ideation post-test

Closing
Closing
Final Close

Flexible and Tailored To Your Needs

Though the Aha! Experience is designed for three days we are flexible and can tailor it to your needs. We can also focus the entire workshop experience on a particular project, product or issue.

Location of the BootCamp

At the location of your choice. We come to you.

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