Creative Innovation Masterclasses
In today's fast-paced world, innovation is the key to staying ahead of the competition. Our Creative Innovation Masterclasses offer a unique opportunity to learn and apply Breakthrough Thinking to foster creativity and innovation in your organization.
Our masterclasses are designed for professionals and entrepreneurs looking to unlock their creativity and drive innovation within their teams. Each session covers a range of topics, including ensemble thinking, ideation, rapid prototyping, and more.
Our masterclasses are tailored to your organization's specific needs and can be delivered either in-person or virtually. We offer a range of formats, from half-day sessions to multi-day intensives, to fit your schedule and budget.
Here are some of the topics we cover in our Creative Innovation Masterclasses:
Breakthrough Thinking: Learn how to approach problem-solving from a user-centered perspective and create solutions that meet the needs of your customers.
Ideation: Explore techniques for generating and evaluating ideas, and discover how to create a culture of innovation within your organization.
Prototyping: Learn how to quickly and efficiently test your ideas using prototypes, and discover the benefits of an iterative approach to innovation. This is key to innovating in just 8-months.
Storytelling: Discover the power of storytelling to inspire and engage your audience, and learn how to use narrative techniques to communicate your ideas effectively.
Innovation Leadership: Learn how to lead your team to innovate and inspire them to push beyond their limits.
Our Creative Innovation Masterclasses are designed to be interactive and engaging, with a mix of lectures, group activities, and hands-on exercises. You'll leave each session with practical tools and techniques that you can apply immediately to drive innovation within your organization.
A Glance at a Day of Creative Innovation
You can expect the unexpected throughout a full-day session with George. It doesn’t matter if it is a day full of ideation or reduction, you will be leaving your comfort zone in multiple ways to generate Breakthrough Thinking™. With the recognition that every journey is different, we are going to touch on some aspects that most clients want in their day.
The journey is going to immediately get you on your feet and interacting with everyone around you in a different way. This is a key indicator of what is about to be discovered throughout your session.
The What and Why are important so we bring awareness to barriers that we all have and why they are there. This leads to some exciting openings that we can immediately put to use.
We will do some exercises that all have a very strong relationship to the topic at hand, but are so fun, you may not realize it at first. This allows for self-discovery and is why everyone that attends leaves feeling refreshed, empowered, and inspired to use the tips and tools they just learned.
Mastering the tools takes almost no time and they truly can be used that day. George spends time working with your team, in the session, on your problems to actively demonstrate how easy it is. You will start with outside examples but quickly transition to working with your team on your problems.
The tools themselves are simple. So simple that often a pen and a piece of paper are all that you need to work with any of them. Each is designed to get you out of the space that you are in. That space could be your physical environment, the space we live in with the rules that define us, or even your own headspace by becoming someone else.
At the end of the session, everyone receives a toolkit that they can take with them. It has numerous little tips and reminders about the tools so that the day’s journey can be used the next day, next year, or even the next decade to come. It is our goal to have everyone bring out their creativity and keep it out. This system is designed so that Breakthrough Thinking™ isn’t confined just to the day’s event. We want it to be the Present that gives the Gift of the future.
Customizable Workshops
The Ideation Emporium of Creativity™ (I E of C) offers a variety of customizable workshops to suit your needs the best. Live and virtual sessions are available for a variety of time frames. Our hands-on approach to working with you on your opportunities works through your issues in real-time.
FULL-DAY EXPANSION SESSION:
During the Ideation Emporium of Creativity™, attendees begin a journey all around rediscovering, unlocking, and expanding their creativity. They will learn simple tools that they can immediately implement that not only bring out fantastic ideas but bring teams together to work on initiatives that inspire them. George actively engages in ideation with the attendees to demonstrate how easy it is to create Breakthrough Thinking™.
FULL-DAY REDUCTION SESSION:
In the reduction session, attendees get a new, quick, meaningful approach to selecting the ideas that need to move forward. They discover simple tools to select ideas naturally. They do see how to expand and reduce in tandem to get to the best and most critical criteria that permits useful innovation.
A WEEK OF INNOVATION:
This 5-day journey encompasses the Expansion and Reduction sessions to a new depth. The outcome of the week will be the team creating ideas that everyone wants to work on, and how to refine them. George will actively keep the team practicing the tools to help make it second nature for a fast, reliable process towards Breakthrough Thinking™ and innovation. This is definitely not your same old Stage and Gate for iteration.