Show notes
I am often asked to explain what creativity training is and how it works. In this episode I clarify creativity training by walking through sample activities and describing a typical creativity training. I also explain three different types of creativity training and the one you need will depend on your goals. Organizations much continue to innovate if they want to thrive. Creativity training gives team members the tools and techniques they need to be more creative and solve problems for the organization.
What You’ll Learn
* The importance of being creative and how creativity training can help
* Three different purposes of creativity trainings
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
* Zig Zag Creativity Cards by Keith Sawyer
The Weekly Challenge
Think about how you can be more creative in 2016. Do you need creativity training? Can you deliver training to your team? Reach out if you need help. It’s what I do best!
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #31:
Creativity Training: What It Is and How It Works
Amy Climer: Happy New Year! Welcome to Episode 31 of The Deliberate Creative Podcast. My name is Amy Climer. Today is December 31st. Happy New Year everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful New Year’s Eve and a wonderful New Year’s week. I love this time of the year. I love New Year’s. We spend the month from Thanksgiving to Christmas, from the end of November to the end of December where there is a lot of festivities and, of course, there is the major holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, which I celebrate. I do not know if you as a listener do, but I definitely participate in those holidays, and a lot of family time and a lot of gift giving, which is super fun. I love all that.
But I really like this week, the week after Christmas, the week of New Year’s, where to me it is just an opportunity to kind of be a little bit more quiet, to slow down, to think about the year that has passed, and to think about the year ahead. I am a big fan of taking some time to reflect back on the year, and to look at what I have accomplished, to look at what I did well, to look at what I did not do so well, and what I might want to change or improve for the next year. So that is something that I am hoping to do later this week.
I am a big fan of setting goals for the year. I definitely had a number of goals that I set in January of 2015 that I looked back at periodically throughout the year to assess, “Okay, where am I going, how am I doing with these goals.” And now here it is December and I would say that some of them I have met, some of them I have not, some of them are taking longer than I expected, which is the story of my life really. Things always seem to take longer than I think. I guess that is the problem with being an optimist. But those that I have not accomplished I am still working towards, which is exciting.
Usually, setting goals at the beginning of the year is very common. There is something about that, that beginning where it is just a nice time. Like let us look ahead, what are we going to accomplish for this year, what do we want to accomplish for 2016? Some of you might have the goal to be more creative in your life. Or if you are working for a team or an organization and you might want to help them become more creative in 2016. I will say I am a fan of the phrase “Innovate or Die.” I think that applies to organizations and so if you are a part of an organization you have to always be creati...
What You’ll Learn
* The importance of being creative and how creativity training can help
* Three different purposes of creativity trainings
Resources Mentioned in the Episode
* Zig Zag Creativity Cards by Keith Sawyer
The Weekly Challenge
Think about how you can be more creative in 2016. Do you need creativity training? Can you deliver training to your team? Reach out if you need help. It’s what I do best!
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free PDF Transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #31:
Creativity Training: What It Is and How It Works
Amy Climer: Happy New Year! Welcome to Episode 31 of The Deliberate Creative Podcast. My name is Amy Climer. Today is December 31st. Happy New Year everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful New Year’s Eve and a wonderful New Year’s week. I love this time of the year. I love New Year’s. We spend the month from Thanksgiving to Christmas, from the end of November to the end of December where there is a lot of festivities and, of course, there is the major holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, which I celebrate. I do not know if you as a listener do, but I definitely participate in those holidays, and a lot of family time and a lot of gift giving, which is super fun. I love all that.
But I really like this week, the week after Christmas, the week of New Year’s, where to me it is just an opportunity to kind of be a little bit more quiet, to slow down, to think about the year that has passed, and to think about the year ahead. I am a big fan of taking some time to reflect back on the year, and to look at what I have accomplished, to look at what I did well, to look at what I did not do so well, and what I might want to change or improve for the next year. So that is something that I am hoping to do later this week.
I am a big fan of setting goals for the year. I definitely had a number of goals that I set in January of 2015 that I looked back at periodically throughout the year to assess, “Okay, where am I going, how am I doing with these goals.” And now here it is December and I would say that some of them I have met, some of them I have not, some of them are taking longer than I expected, which is the story of my life really. Things always seem to take longer than I think. I guess that is the problem with being an optimist. But those that I have not accomplished I am still working towards, which is exciting.
Usually, setting goals at the beginning of the year is very common. There is something about that, that beginning where it is just a nice time. Like let us look ahead, what are we going to accomplish for this year, what do we want to accomplish for 2016? Some of you might have the goal to be more creative in your life. Or if you are working for a team or an organization and you might want to help them become more creative in 2016. I will say I am a fan of the phrase “Innovate or Die.” I think that applies to organizations and so if you are a part of an organization you have to always be creati...