20/20 MDS® Workshop Kit: Creativity and Innovation-Advanced
In the first course on Creativity and Innovation in this 20-20 MDS® series, we suggested that human creativity or innovation was a very large and complex subject area with a considerable amount of debate about what it is, and how it is practiced. However, we did manage to come up with a broadly based definition of the whole topic as follows: “Creativity is finding, thinking and making new things. Innovation is doing and using new things”.

In the first course in this topic area, we spent most of our time on the first part of this definition or the creative side of the equation. This involved time investigating what it means to be creative and at different ways in which this can occur. In this second module, although we will spend time looking at creativity to some extent, we will be spending most of our time on the innovation side of the equation or how creativity is put into action/used in practice. This is simply because creativity or idea generation is only of practical use if it succeeds in making a difference or in changing things for the better.

Objectives
At the end of this module you will be able to:

• Discover that increased innovation is possible for every individual no matter where their base skills start. 
• Recognize that all ideas need to be nurtured and (where possible) tested to ensure that they can be implemented successfully. 
• Appreciate different kinds of innovation culture and innovation leadership can change as a result 
• Learn why innovations often fail 
• Apply strategies to ensure that good ideas and creative thought succeed through high levels of personal courage and persistence  

Underpinning Competencies:

• Contextual thinking
• Creative assimilation 
• Planning and scheduling work 
• Reciprocal communication

The 20-20 MDS® series by WCOD is a management and leadership development program designed for professionals seeking to improve their management and leadership skills to help them reach their potential in the work world.  Until now, the courses and workshops in this program were only available as a complete course of study within an accredited program.  WCOD has recently begun making the eLearning courses and workshops from this management and leadership development program available to learners, trainers, coaches and consultants on a course-by-course basis. 

The 20-20 MDS® Workshop Course Packs for trainers and coaches provide a fully scripted PowerPoint presentation on the topic which can be used as-is or tailored as much as necessary to meet participant needs.   Also available is a participant workbook which includes key materials from the presentation, and provides space for attendees to write their reflections, notes on exercises, discussion summaries and more.   

Note, when you purchase a Workshop Course Pack, you are provided with an editable PowerPoint file which you may save, adapt and reuse over and over.  In addition, once you have placed the Course Pack in your shopping cart, one participant workbook will be added to your cart at no charge, so that you have a sample of the workbook.  If you wish to have your participants utilize the workbook in your course, you must purchase a license to make additional copies of the workbook for all your participants.  It is a violation of the copyright of this material to make unauthorized copies.  Volume pricing is available.

This 20/20 MDS Workshop Kit includes a fully editable scripted Powerpoint Presentation and a Participant Workbook along with a reprint license for your first 10 copies of the Workbook. 

To sample the first 6-7 pages of the Scripted Powerpoint Presentation, please click here.




To see sample pages from the Participant Workbook, please click here.