Stimulating Innovation and Creativity

Learn how to stimulate your creativity and that of your teams to ensure your organization’s growth and performance.

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  • Preferential price: $295

Course outline

Duration : 3.5 hours

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Innovation is an essential factor in ensuring an organization’s growth and performance.

This course allows you to understand what innovation means in an organizational context, to value and develop creative potential. By integrating creative techniques, you will acquire innovative processes that can be transferred to meet both individual and collective needs.

Audience

For everyone

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

  • Determine the usefulness of creativity and innovation in one’s professional context and aspirations

  • Improve one’s ability to face complexity and experimentation

  • Adapt one’s posture to innovation mode

Contents

Brief Theory on Creativity and Innovation

  • Innovation Governance Matrix

  • The VICA Environment

  • Creativity and Innovation

The Innovation Posture

  • Exploratory Activity

  • State of Mind

Innovation and Creative Problem-Solving

  • Characteristics of an Innovative Person and Culture

  • Introduction to Complexity

  • Agile Design Thinking Model

  • The Need for Chaos

  • Process of Divergence, Emergence and Convergence

Surround yourself with the best

Zaida Bibiana Mangones Matos
Zaida Bibiana Mangones Matos
Trainer
Zaida is a dynamic and highly qualified trilingual trainer, facilitator and coach that is considered as catalyst for individual and collective transformational processes. Not only is she graduated as a certified coach from the Edgenda/Mozaik Coaching School, but she also holds a major in career development (UQAM), a 2nd cycle university degree in epidemiology and an undergraduate medical doctorate from outside of Quebec. She is known for positive energy, her systemic vision, the quality of her presence and her ability to create bonds of trust.
Vanessa Deschênes
Vanessa Deschênes
Trainer and Leadership Consultant
Coach, facilitator, speaker, and trainer, Vanessa is recognized as a change agent and a human, caring, and inspiring leader who is not afraid to challenge the status quo. Passionate about people, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and somatic approaches, she supports leaders and organizations in building high, sustainable performance that safeguards both results and the people who drive them. A trained lawyer with an MBA, Vanessa has had the privilege of appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada and being listed in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Lexpert Directory. She is also a recipient of the ZSA Tomorrow’s Leader Award for up-and-coming legal advisors. With over 15 years of experience in consulting and management, Vanessa has held prominent positions, including Chief Privacy Officer at a major Canadian financial institution and partner in a law firm. From the start of her career, she has designed and delivered trainings and conferences, and as a speaker and trainer, she brings more than 15 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Vanessa is highly regarded for her ability to demystify complex subjects and make them practical and accessible. An entrepreneur and certified coach in leadership and sustainable performance, Vanessa also holds certifications as a meditation teacher, applied neuroscience practitioner, Ericksonian hypnosis practitioner, and in various other somatic practices. She has completed Kaos Pilot Level 2 (Master Archer – art & craft of designing & facilitating learning spaces) and is a certified AtmanCo professional.
Claude Fortin
Claude Fortin
Trainer and Strategic Advisor
Holder of a master's degree in public administration, Claude worked for 30 years in the Quebec health and social services network. As a strategic advisor, his renowned approach to managing issues that are related to complex organizations and challenges that these businesses are facing is contextualized and modern. He supports organizations in achieving their business objectives and advices companies on the strategy to adopt according to the desired organizational evolution.
Virginie Arbour-Maynard
Virginie Arbour-Maynard
Trainer and Leadership Consultant
Facilitator, coach, speaker and senior advisor, Virginie is a passionate and mobilizing leader. She puts her solid experience as a professional, manager and ideator for more than 20 years at the service of various companies and teams that she accompanies through courses, workshops and individual and collective coaching. Virginie is a lawyer, member of the Barreau du Québec (2001) and professional coach. She has completed the 2nd Kaos Pilot level (Master Archer art & craft of designing & facilitating learning spaces) and is a certified SuccessFinder and AtmanCo professional.

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