Online Class: Innovative Thinking Skills
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12Lessons
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21Exams &
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805Students
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7Hours
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0.7CEUs
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Video Audit
Available
Course Description
Unleashing Your Creative Genius: The "Innovative Thinking" Odyssey
Step into the vibrant universe of "Innovative Thinking," a transformative course curated meticulously to unfurl the boundless power of your mind. We beckon you to a universe where convention meets creativity, where boundaries blur to birth brilliance. Over an immersive twelve-lesson journey, we challenge you to dismantle the familiar and embrace the extraordinary.
Every groundbreaking idea, every revolutionary product, and every industry-shifting service began as a flicker of thought in an imaginative mind. With "Innovative Thinking," we empower you to be the mastermind behind tomorrow's innovations.
Here's a glimpse of what awaits:
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The Innovation Landscape: Embark on a panoramic tour of the vast and varied world of innovation. Understand its multifaceted nature, from incremental changes to disruptive shifts.
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Innovation Ecosystems: Dive deep into what makes organizations breeding grounds for pioneering ideas. As a leader, be the torchbearer who illuminates the path to a culture that values and nurtures innovation.
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The Roadblocks Within: Often, the most formidable barriers to innovation are internal. Confront and conquer personal inhibitors that stifle creativity, ensuring you’re consistently at your innovative best.
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A Leader's Guide: Learn to infuse your leadership with an innovative spirit. Guide your teams, stimulate groundbreaking ideas, and build an environment where creativity is the norm, not the exception.
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Self-Discovery and Empowerment: Tap into the reservoir of your innate strengths, refining them to amplify your innovative capabilities. Discover pathways that resonate with your passion and drive.
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Innovation as a Way of Life: Innovation isn't just for the boardroom. Integrate it into every facet of your existence. From personal pursuits to professional endeavors, reimagine every journey with an innovative lens.
The post-course transformation promises to be palpable. With a rejuvenated mindset, you'll be poised to navigate challenges with newfound creativity. Your leadership will be characterized by an invigorating energy, propelling those around you towards higher echelons of achievement. And personally? Prepare to rediscover yourself, as you embrace change, challenge convention, and champion creativity.
Because at its core, "Innovative Thinking" isn’t just a course. It’s a clarion call to every dreamer, every leader, every individual. It's an invitation to break the mold, to redefine boundaries, and to etch an indelible mark on the annals of innovation.
Dare to dream. Dare to disrupt. Dare to define the future. Equip yourself with the formidable weapon of "Innovative Thinking" and architect a tomorrow brimming with potential. After all, greatness isn't just about reaching destinations; it's about charting paths unknown. Join us, and let's co-author the future!
Course Lessons
Lesson 1: What Is Innovation All About?
This first lesson introduces the aspects of what innovation is, and how it happens.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.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.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.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.Lesson 6: Ten Ways to Generate Ideas
Expand your thinking in every way, without any boundaries. Find the syncopation in the rhythm of life.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.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.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.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.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.Lesson 12: Characteristics of Innovative Managers
The characteristics of innovative managers come together to support the skills they have developed.
Learning Outcomes
- Define what innovation is.
- Describe three main types of innovation.
- Describe tools and exercises to increase innovation.
- Recognize idea champions, idea incubators, new venture teams, and skunk works.
- Summarize how to develop innovative thinking skills.
- Describe ten ways to generate ideas.
- Describe five ways to narrow down ideas.
- Summarize steps to further refining ideas.
- Determine key factors for an innovative organization.
- Describe 15 barriers to organizational innovation.
- Describe implementation and assessment of innovative ideas.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Additional Course Information
- Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
- Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
- Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online
- View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
- Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media
Student Testimonials
- "I really enjoyed delving into innovation and the underlying requisites for achieving innovation." -- Richard E.
- "This course was very useful and informative. Thank you!" -- Onika M.
- "Thank you. It was a great course." -- Kolleen D.
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