If you’re interested in a particular facet of innovation and creativity or already familiar with CPS, we have several full week Immersions that allow you to focus on a methodology, style or area either outside of CPS or deepening an aspect of CPS. Each workshop allows for an in-depth, hands-on experience in an area of interest and are taught by industry experts and practitioners.
When registering for CPSI, please choose ONE of the following workshops:
Training Design: McCarthy
Art of Innovation: Michaelides & Horth
Lateral Thinking: Jenkins & Vicksta
A Revolution for Reinvention: Whalen
Innovation in a Tough Economy: Eaton, Eckert & Vehar
Revolutionizing Training Design
Using 4MAT to Create more Dynamic and Creative Learning Experiences
In this 3-day training session participants will learn and apply 4MAT— a proven process for framing your training and development programs. This process helps improve the impact of training, increases levels of participation, increases the breadth of training methods, and supports more creative involvement among participants.
In this immersion, participants will be able to:
- Create meaningful, interactive training based on the principles of how people learn best,
- Understand different learning styles and how they impact training,
- Design training based on the key tenets of high quality training and development,
- Improve employee development with systems that better measure the true impact of learning,
- Build training along core concepts to improve the quality and depth of learning,
- Use more diverse and creative training methods to engage participants,
- Adopt 4MAT as a common language for instruction that is proven to increase training outcomes and participant satisfaction.
- This session is highly interactive and engaging session and will employ a number of activities to engage participants.
- Take the Learning Type Measure to assess how you learn
- Take the training style inventory, to examine the scope of training activities
- Create an original 4MAT training design
- Rate the quality and depth of various training designs
- Perform the umbrella exercise and GameBoard activity to self-assess their knowledge of the 4MAT principles and methods.
- Upon completion of this training, and approval of your 4MAT Training Design by the course instructor, all participants are Certified as official 4MAT Training Designers.
The Art of Innovation
Integrating Creativity in Organizations
Dimis Michaelides | David Magellan Horth
Developing creativity at a personal, team, and organizational level is a leadership imperative for thriving in a world of accelerating change. However, the roadmap for achieving this is often either elusive, overwhelming or insufficient to deal with the complexities of the leadership challenge in making creativity an integral part of their organization’s capabilities.
Savvy leaders recognize that to make innovation thrive they need to simultaneously orchestrate changes in a number of different elements at different levels of the organization and to synthesize their own and others efforts. The elements are:
- the Sources of efficient creativity (Talent, Energy, Method)
- a Structure to drive innovation (Individual, Team, Target, System)
- a Culture that makes creativity a potent force in an organizational context (Ideas, Engagement, Freedom, Humor, Risk)
This course introduces a set of elegant principles that makes these elements tangible. Participants will learn practical tools and techniques for applying these principles thus enabling them to design and develop robust and innovative organizations.
Through interactive presentations, games, activities, assignments, ventures into the visual arts and magic, the workshop will transform the complexities of organizational innovation into the realm of the possible and feasible.
Who needs The Art of Innovation?
Leaders and managers, trainers and consultants recognizing the compelling need for creativity to thrive in current times and looking for a systematic approach to developing a sustainable capacity for innovation in organizations.
Expected Outcomes Lateral Thinking For Innovative Leaders Mary Ellyn Vicksta | Natalie Jenkins The Lateral Thinking Techniques
Benefits and Results of Lateral Thinking
A Revolution for Reinvention Never before has the need for coaching been greater. People are hungry for guidance and are turning to coaches to assist them in understanding change and articulating a new future. Overview: This transformational learning process allows new insights into how one sees the world. Automatic thinking and embedded behaviors have produced the current circumstances. In order to move forward into new possibilities, an understanding and ownership of how an individual has constructed a particular perception of the world needs to be acknowledged. Some of the most valuable benefits a coach can provide a client are the facilitation of a new way of thinking and acting. Creative and innovative strategies that were previously unrecognized, now step into the light creating a breakthrough shift in how the world is seen. A Revolution for Reinvention - Coaching Through Unpredictable Change will give you an opportunity to experience the power of coaching in your own life. You not only begin to learn coaching skills, methods and principles; but you will also experience the impact of all that you are learning as a client in the process. The course style is interactive, "hands-on" with the participants actively applying what they are learning in a safe and encouraging environment. It weaves together inquiry, systems thinking, reflective learning and supportive challenging processes as well as giving and receiving valuable coaching feedback. It is our intention that through these non traditional methods each participant recognizes their own unique voice and style and understands the impact of their presence. While some courses emphasize methodology at the expense of practice this is very much of a practical “how to” course. Some of the skills that you will be learning are: How To: A Revolution for Reinvention - Coaching Through Unpredictable Change will take you on a learning journey. You Will: Identify your own personal learning edge to enhance your coaching. Who Will Benefit: “Remarkable coaching allows the client to experience their greatness and learn about themselves in a way that empowers action and opens possibilities.” -- Janeen Whalen Organizational Leadership for Innovation in a Tough Economy Bob Eckert | Newell Eaton | Jonathan Vehar This course addresses the question: “How might I lead innovation in my organization even when the economy is in the tank and resources are scarce?” This interactive program provides role models and leaders – at all levels of the organization -- with the skills, attitudes and tools to work together more innovatively and productively, with a dramatic reduction in non-productive communication. You’ll learn a development cycle based on key behavioral leadership themes as detailed in the book More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams. This course helps individuals develop the behaviors necessary to make a positive contribution individually, on their team, and to the organization. Participants will reflect on, and discuss, real organizational challenges to help them better appreciate their own impact on the innovative output of the people around them. Leaders who participate return to work as better leaders, energized, more creative, better able to communicate…and get things done. In this program you’ll learn: 1. The do’s and don’ts of leading and creating organizational innovation Key Benefits
By the end of the workshop, participants will:
The Lateral Thinking course is a dependable, systematic approach to creative thinking. It’s used as an igniter, striking the matches that lead to innovation. It gives participants the tools they need to find profound solutions to stubborn problems and roadblocks that they encounter. Lateral Thinking provides unconventional techniques that help people escape from their usual patterns of thinking to produce enhanced results. Breaking away from usual patterns is the key to creativity. Innovation will never happen without creative ideas, processes, and thoughts.
Who should take this workshop?
Not only managers and those in R & D, but anyone who wants a disciplined approach for innovation, idea generation, concept development, or a strategy to challenge the status quo.
What is the Lateral Thinking course all about?
The Need for Creative Thinking
What can Lateral Thinking add to your organization's culture?
Coaching Through Unpredictable Change 
The game has changed and now so must you. None of us are prepared for this economic upheaval and are apprehensive about the fallout in its aftermath. So many of us are caught in shock not knowing how to navigate this unsteady landscape. We are questioning our assumptions and finding that what we knew to be true is no longer something we can count on. We claimed our success by doing what we knew worked. Now the tides have changed and a revolution for reinvention is upon us. Each of us has to custom-design our future all over again
Coaching, or just-in-time learning is changing how people learn. It's a required competency for today’s and tomorrow's leaders, weather your leadership is applied to business, a classroom, community or a family. Understanding human behavior and developing human capabilities are the primary tasks.
Any person who is interested in an overview of the art, process, and practice of coaching; whether you want to add a new skill set to your existing portfolio, start a new career path or use what you will be learning for personal exploration and awakening.
Innovation is a team sport and one person can make a difference. But how? Working in teams and task forces is now made even harder by the fact that everyone is competing for limited resources and competition has heated up. So what can you do?
2. The blocks and barriers of creativity and innovation and how to overcome them
3. How to shift into your creative zone on demand, using new skills, attitudes and techniques
4. How to apply the key principles for innovation leadership
5. How to model behaviors that nurture creativity and invite innovation in co-workers
6. How to use conscious communication skills to open up doors for innovation
7. Gain insights into personal creative strengths and key growth areas
8. A framework for developing enterprise innovation
9. Create a personal action plan to enhance your ability to lead and follow more effectively to bring innovation into the organization.
10. Develop a strategy to shape the innovation capacity of their organization.
