The Professional Education Center at EMU

Eastern Michigan University

Putting Creativity to Work

Who Should Attend?

Mid-level and/or senior managers who are looking to create breakthrough ideas and who are interested in leading real change in their functional areas and across their organizations.

Program Format and Content

This 2 day workshop will show you how to develop the practices, policies, and people to put creativity to work throughout your organization.   Participants will be introduced to a straightforward framework that will allow you to assess your situation and develop appropriate innovation processes.

This program is highly interactive with "think tank" sessions, breakout discussion groups, and a series of assessments and exercises designed to help you:

  • Assess your creative style
  • Develop organization appropriate innovation practices
  • Create innovation implementation practices
  • Build innovative capabilities in your team
  • Spot good ideas and turn them into winning projects

Pre-Program Assessment

Participants will be asked to complete an assessment of their creative style and competencies and an assessment of the creative culture of their organization.

Day One

  • Diagnose your organization's creative culture & assess your creative competencies
  • Develop a vision of future opportunities
  • Developing innovative people and teams

Day Two

  • Integrating creativity and innovation into business practices
  • Building creative collaborations in your organization
  • Developing good ideas into winning projects

 

"The PEC was instrumental in designing a writing course specifically tailored for the Hyundai America Technical Center.

Our consultant and instructor spent weeks learning about our work environment, speaking with our leadership team, researching and incorporating international writing skills into the course; all of which were critical to successfully incorporating our business needs in to the writing course.

The time and dedication of the PEC staff was greatly appreciated."

-E.R. Schmidt, HR Director, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.

-J.H. Rim, Korean Coordinator, Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc.


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