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12

Lessons
21

Exams &
Assignments
7

Hours
average time
0.7

CEUs
109

Students
have taken this course

Course Description

Welcome to "Innovative Thinking" where you will find ways to change your mindset, transform your ideas, and begin to look at the world in a new way. In twelve lessons you are invited to examine and investigate, analyze and synthesize characteristics of innovative thought and action.

Develop innovation skills, learn about different types of innovation and the key factors to make your organization an innovative place to work and grow new ideas. Leaders will discover how to implement these skills into the workplace, to train employees, and to assess the effectiveness of these changes.

Individuals will explore personal issues that stand in the way of more creative and innovative thinking. This course will guide each person toward new ventures, exciting pathways and supply methods for development of your natural strengths in exciting ways.

After taking "Innovative Thinking" you will feel the passion to take the next step in your career. After taking "Innovative Thinking" you will know how to lead others toward more success through different thought paths. Innovative thinking is essential to success in your personal life as well as your business. Get the skills, develop your confidence and become a more interesting person.

Goals and dreams don't happen without working to make them happen. Make this a first step in creating your future. Gain the knowledge and expertise you will need to move to a higher realm in your personal life or in your career, or in your organization. Protect your mind from becoming stagnate by grasping the skill of "Innovative Thinking."

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Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: What Is Innovation All About?

This first lesson introduces the aspects of what innovation is, and how it happens. 13 Total Points

Complete: Lesson 1 Assignment
Complete: Notebook Activity
Complete: Exam 1

Lesson 2: Three Main Types of Innovation

In the world of business strategists, different methods of innovative thinking have been grouped into three basic categories. 11 Total Points

Review 3 Articles: 15 Types of innovation; Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation; Double Down, Explode, Bridge and Breakout: The innovation options
Complete: Lesson 2 Assignment
Complete: Exam 2

Lesson 3: Tools and Exercises to Increase Innovation

The three basic tools for innovative thinking are brainstorming, development, and implementation. These depend upon each other for success in innovation. 11 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: The Brain Exercise That Boosts Creativity; 12 Exercises for Creativity and Innovation in Business
Complete: Lesson 3 Assignment
Complete: Exam 3

Lesson 4: Idea Champions, Idea Incubators, New Venture Teams, and Skunk Works

In this lesson, the focus is on the structures for people who build teams and bring others into their sanctuary of creativity, innovation, and drive to succeed. 11 Total Points

Review 3 Articles: The Heart of Innovation; An Investigation of New Venture Teams in Emerging Businesses; The Idea Incubator Goes to Campus
Complete: Lesson 4 Assignment
Complete: Exam 4

Lesson 5: How to Develop Innovative Thinking Skills

The interesting part of learning to become innovative is that you awaken to life. Those who build the skills of play, asking questions, learning to fail, be uncomfortable, and heighten sensory awareness will live a deeper more meaningful life. 10 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: 5 Techniques That Build Creative Thinking Skills; How to Build Your Innovation Skills
Complete: Exam 5

Lesson 6: Ten Ways to Generate Ideas

Expand your thinking in every way, without any boundaries. Find the syncopation in the rhythm of life. 11 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: Generating New Ideas; Seven Strategies for Generating Ideas
Complete: Lesson 6 Assignment
Complete: Exam 6

Lesson 7: Five Ways to Narrow Down Ideas

After an innovative team gets through the brainstorming phase, they have to narrow it all down into one idea. The issue is to turn the team from divergent thinking to convergent thinking. 11 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: To Find Your Next Great Business Idea, Narrow Your Focus; Home-Based Business-Narrowing Down Your Ideas
Complete: Lesson 7 Assignment
Complete: Exam 7

Lesson 8: Steps to Further Refining Ideas

In refining ideas, the development team must be aware, listen, observe, and take notes. The team must know that their job follows the idea into conception and beyond. 11 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: A Comprehensive 7-Step Process for Launching Great Ideas; Entrepreneurship Campus
Complete: Lesson 8 Assignment
Complete: Exam 8

Lesson 9: Key Factors for an Innovative Organization

Key factors for organization innovation include the attitude of the company, its leaders, and its board of directors. 1 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: The Keys to Creating an Innovative Organization; Innovation?s Nine Critical Success Factors
Complete: Lesson 9 Assignment

Lesson 10: 15 Barriers to Organizational Innovation

Thinking about those many innovators who risked their ego, money, time, and so much more to bring the world into this technological age is empowering. Humans who fail to create, fail to live. Companies that fail to innovate, fail to thrive. 10 Total Points

Review 2 Articles: The Hidden Barriers to Innovation; Ten Organizational Barriers that Limit Innovation
Complete: Exam 10

Lesson 11: Implementation and Assessment of Innovative Ideas

In this lesson, implementation and assessment will be looked at throughout this entire process, from idea inception, to the birth of that product on the store shelves. 0 Total Points

Review 3 Articles: How to Evaluate Ideas; How to ? and How Not to ? Evaluate Innovation; Innovation: It's Not The Idea, It's What You Do With It

Lesson 12: Characteristics of Innovative Managers

The characteristics of innovative managers come together to support the skills they have developed. 62 Total Points

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Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment
Complete: Exam 12
Complete: The Final Exam

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Total Course Points

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Course Title: Innovative Thinking

Course Number: 8900339

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

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Course Type: Professional Development (Self-Paced, Online Class)

CEU Value: 0.7 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Instructor: Dr. Dennis Mithaug

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Duration: Continuous: Enroll anytime!

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