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Professional Development Workshop - Creativity in the Workplace

A professional development workshop will focus on using creativity in the workplace to boost innovation, achieve better problem solving and build a sense of rejuvenation and renewed purpose. Studies show that promoting a culture of innovation and creativity leads to greater productivity and staff satisfaction. An approach that values risk-taking and experimentation while also fostering curiosity will likely promote an organization’s overall performance. This workshop will focus on elements of creativity such as risk-taking, tolerating uncertainty, psychological openness and optimism. Through discussions and hands-on creative exercises, participants will delve into new ways of thinking about themselves and their profession and explore the psychological barriers that may contribute to a lack of fulfillment or purpose.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn about the field of Creativity and develop tools to recognize their own creative potential.
Participants will explore the elements of risk-taking, open mindedness and tolerating uncertainty in order to identify their own habits of generating new thoughts and ideas.
Participants will learn practical Creative Thinking tools to use in their professional domain.
Participants will develop strategies to identify feelings of burn out and lack of purpose.

Workshop Themes

Productivity

This workshop will use Creative Thinking ideas and exercises to help staff explore their own productivity, motivation and the barriers that may hamper their potential.

Participants will explore the definition of productivity within their own work context.
Participants will understand the barriers to becoming more productive.
Participants will discover new elements of motivation and the connections between motivation and the generation of new ideas.

Team Building

This workshop will focus on the elements of a strong team and help participants to build a collective that allows everyone to have a voice.

Participants will learn about the core element of “psychological safety”.
Participants will learn about the psychological dynamics of groups.
Participants will identify strategies to strengthen the team and all of the members.

Burn Out

This workshop will focus on the experience of burnout and help staff to explore their own experience of feeling depleted, to understand the causes of burn out and to come up with solutions.

Participants will explore the connections between burn out and loss of vitality.
Participants will identify strategies to combat burn out and to support resilience.