'CLEAR IDEAS' Creativity & Innovation Skills Training Workshop

'CLEAR IDEAS' Creativity & Innovation Skills Training Workshop

The workshop will be held on 5th December 2024 - 09:00 - 17:00.

Last Booking Date for this Event: 27^th November 2024

During this one-day workshop, we will introduce a range of tools and techniques for analysing opportunities and generating highly creative solutions, with guidelines on how to effectively implement those innovative approaches in the workplace. It will involve small groups of participants learning how to use the model on important work-related problems they have already identified in advance. 
By the end of the full-day training course, participants will:

• be able to explain the CLEAR IDEAS systematic process for generating, choosing and implementing new creative solutions  
• be able to use analytic thinking techniques to identify and prioritise major causes and effects underlying complex challenges
• be able to use a variety of creative thinking techniques to generate large numbers of ideas
• understand how to select and synthesise the best ideas generated using systematic principles
• be able to identify key strategies for effectively implanting their new ideas
• understand how to access and use the CLEAR IDEAS innovation development apps  

Facilitator: Professor Kamal Birdi, C. Occ. Psychol.

Kamal has been engaging in research and practice in the areas of organisational creativity, innovation and learning for thirty years. He is a Professor of Work Psychology at Sheffield University Management School and a registered Chartered Occupational Psychologist. His practical training system (CLEAR IDEAS), designed to enhance the innovativeness of employees, has been run in workshops involving hundreds of organisations in the UK and overseas.

If you have any questions about your eligibility and/or the workshop please contact mgt.events@sheffield.ac.uk