The Creativity Formula
Wanna boost your creativity? You've come to the right place. There is a lot of fluff published on the subject, so in this workshop we're only going to get our hands dirty with activities that are backed by scientific research.
The content of this workshop is based on the published work of organisational psychologist, Amantha Imber. Amantha's work brings into the public arena the results of thousands of scientific findings from leading universities such as Cornell, Harvard and NYU that are repeatable and demonstrably not due to chance.
The strategies that Adam will cover in this workshop are small changes that can be made in any workplace that can make a significant difference to an organisation's creative output. Adam will also put forward practical suggestions that can be used by individuals to think more creatively, whether that be at work or in their personal lives.
Outline/Structure of the Skills Workshop
1st 40 minutes - The first half of the workshop will be centered on techniques that prime the brain and shift it into an open-minded and lateral-thinking mode.
2nd 40 minutes - The second half of the workshop will be centered on how working with constraints can positively impact creativity. Adam will run an interactive workshop with paddle pop sticks to demonstrate this. Teams will be assembled and requested to build constructions inside time-boxed sprints.
Learning Outcome
Based on the activities, there will be various. The whole focus of the 80-minute workshop is equipping attendees with the tools to help unleash creativity both at work and in their personal lives. Businesses need to stay competitive to stay alive, and baking in such techniques into workplace activities can help achieve just that.
Target Audience
Coaches and really anyone that wants to to blast a hole through the roof of their next team ideation session!
Prerequisites for Attendees
No preparation needed for this one! Register, arrive and enjoy the ride!
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LAST is Australia's cross-functional conference. Rather than retreat to our trade and talk among our peers-in practice we want LAST to be a place where people can learn about the holistic process of product and service development, growing organisations, boosting our own skills and careers and thinking about how what we do works with wider society.
This conference is also about learning and sharing with our colleagues. Over the years we have come to value the following things;
- Interactive sessions over presentations
- Specific tools and techniques over general frameworks
- Learning from mistakes and failures over sharing sanitised success stories
- Diversity of content over following industry best practices
- Evidence based approaches over novel ideas
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.
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