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Creative Thinking: Innovative Solutions To Complex Challenges (Online)

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The most successful executives are inspiring leaders, smart strategists—and creative thinkers. They recognize the need to harness new thinking to envision a desired future.  
 
This program will empower you to transform your thinking from the standard “why we can’t” to the innovative “how might we”. You’ll crack the code on how to consistently leverage your team's creative genius in order to solve complex problems and drive change within your organization.
 
Innovation experts Anne Manning and Susan Robertson bring to this powerful program their decades of experience promoting corporate innovation, teaching the art of creative problem solving, and applying the principles of brain science.  
 
During this program, you will learn how to remove barriers to creativity, cultivate courage, create more agile, proactive, and inspired teams, and build a climate for innovation. You’ll return to the job with a new creative leadership vision, renewed enthusiasm, and the skills and tools you need to  tackle challenges and seize opportunities.
 
Program Benefits:
  • Become a more nimble, proactive, and inspired thinker and leader.
  • Create the type of climate that nurtures rather than kills ideas.
  • Gain a practical tool set for solving intransigent problems by incorporating creative thinking into day-to-day processes.
  • Optimize a team’s success by managing cognitive preferences (yours and others) that drive successful creative thinking.
  • Retrain your brain to avoid cognitive biases that sabotage creative thinking.
  • Earn a Certificate of Participation from the Harvard Division of Continuing Education.
 
Topics Covered:
  • Fostering a culture that values, nurtures, and rewards creative solutions.
  • Managing cognitive preferences needed for successful creative problem solving.
  • Implementing a methodology that overcomes barriers to innovative thinking.
  • Reframing problems, making new connections, and challenging assumptions. 
  • Using questions to brainstorm and solve business problems more effectively.
  • Generating and enhancing new ideas, strategies, and techniques.
 
Who Should Enroll
This program is for leaders at all organizational levels who want to learn a proven process to solve intransigent problems in new ways.  
Registration is currently closed. Please email pdp@dce.harvard.edu for assistance. Send to Friend »

Class Details

4 Session(s)
Days of the Week :Multiple Days of the Week :
  Tue.  
  Tue.  
  Tue.  
  Tue.  

Location : Online

Instructor : Multiple Instructor :
 1.Anne Manning  2.Susan Robertson 

 

Notice

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Tuition: 

$2,600.00


Schedule Information

Date(s) Class Days Times Location Instructor(s)
10/10/2023 Tue 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online Susan Robertson  ; Anne Manning 
10/17/2023 Tue 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online Susan Robertson  ; Anne Manning 
10/24/2023 Tue 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online Susan Robertson  ; Anne Manning 
10/31/2023 Tue 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM N/A - Online Susan Robertson  ; Anne Manning