Workshop Length: Half-Day or Full Day
As creative professionals, we are called upon to produce and deliver original strategies and solutions to make our companies or clients stand out in the crowd, requiring a high level of creative thinking and generation of innovative ideas. But sometimes constantly having to be “on” creatively can be mentally taxing. Furthermore, standard working conditions often can extinguish our creative fire, making it tough to come up with fresh ideas precisely when we need them most. What is needed is a way to work better so that we can create more.
Through exploring various concepts and approaches, including the neuroscience of creativity, productivity techniques, and emerging practices that spur innovation, we’ll discover not only the ways in which our brains work best, but also what’s behind the times when we feel on fire with creativity and when we don’t. We’ll translate this information into processes and techniques for dramatically enhanced creative productivity.
Beware: this workshop challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Topics include:
- The six step process to unfold the brain in order to work better and create more
- Recognizing and expanding idea generating and capturing styles
- Methods for getting the brain into the state where one accesses creative ideas and ideates best
- Leveraging the relationship between collaboration and playing games to foment creative inspiration
- Achieving flow states for optimum creative productivity
- Eliminating the biggest blocks and inhibitors of creativity
- Tools for gathering sources of inspiration that kick-start the creative process
- Applying Design Thinking approaches to getting to finished products faster
The goal of the workshop is to help participants:
- Challenge and replace standard approaches to work in order to be more creative and innovative
- Manage time and eliminate distractions to achieve optimal creative productivity
- Transmute negative stress into eustress to inspire and spur creativity
- Structure time and workspaces to be more productive
- Generate creative ideas when most needed
- Develop and/or regain creative confidence as well as feeling reengaged with work and other creative projects
Get in touch to have Denise deliver this workshop at your company, conference, or corporate retreat.
