In Creativity Camp, you'll learn...
- Innovative brainstorming techniques you and your teams can use to generate new ideas
- How to foster a work environment that stimulates creativity and problem solving
- The secrets to inventing solutions to problems that would have stumped you in the past
- Creative new ways to transform a group of individuals into an energized, creative team that produces great results
- And much more!
The Creativity Camp has been designed to shake you loose from your daily routine … get your creative juices flowing … and help you apply your natural abilities in exciting new ways. There won’t really be a campfire at this camp … but there will be great techniques and more “how-to’s” than you thought possible. Be on your way to becoming a more effective manager your very next day back at work. Design your day to meet your unique needs. We’ve packed a lot of information into just one day … so feel free to move in and out of these two tracks and 10 dynamic sessions. It’s your conference—don’t miss a thing!
CONFERENCE AGENDA
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Trail blazing+
- Find out how creative geniuses really come up with their brilliant ideas and learn some of their best-kept secrets: Disney’s storyboarding, da Vinci’s idea wall, Stravinsky’s random clustering method
- How to use several types of mind-mapping techniques to shake loose great ideas
- Learn unusual methods for recording the fast flow of ideas
- Discover how certain kinds of displays and graphics stimulate still more original thinking
Relay racing+
- New methods for turning around the negativity and bad attitudes that can spread through your team
- Great new ways to address annoying behaviors
- Clever techniques for giving feedback that makes a difference
- The secrets to coaching even the toughest case into a team player who makes valuable contributions … and is pleasant to be around
Calisthenics+
- Einstein’s secret to success that also applies in the business world—just because you’ve hit upon something that works doesn’t mean that’s the best solution to the problem
- How to generate an abundance of ideas—when squeezing out even one workable plan can seem like such hard work
- Learn simple ways to encourage your mind to work in entirely new and amazing ways
Survival skills+
- Your management equivalent of a Swiss Army knife—packed with a wide array of smart, practical tools you can rely on to see you through just about any supervisory challenge
- Learn where most supervisors go astray—often without knowing what went wrong
- Typically overlooked ways you can ensure that your habits, your interactions and the image you’re projecting all support your success as a superstar supervisor
Fire building+
- 100—yes, we said 100—ways to ignite the kind of energy and enthusiasm that fuel increased productivity and effectiveness
- Proven motivational methods that you can implement without spending lots of money
Rock climbing+
- Understand the value of informed risk taking
- Learn just how to nurture the off-the-beaten-path brand of imagination and ideas that the most successful teams demonstrate
- Discover ways to get even the most reserved and resistant players out of their comfort zones
- Dozens of techniques and tools you can use to encourage team members—and yourself—to suspend judgment long enough to allow your mind the freedom to climb to ever-greater heights
