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Stepping out of the Box
Using your Creative Edge
Managing Change
The Innovation Groove: Creativity, Leadership, and Teamwork Through Making
Music
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
Stepping Out of the Box is a powerful and enlivening workshop / presentation designed for
participants to experience and develop their innovative abilities. Through various exercises,
participants are taken through the creative process in a way that they can use ongoingly, either
to solve existing problems or generate and implement new ideas.
YOUR GREATEST UNTAPPED RESOURCE
Businesses that thrive are those using their greatest resource - innovation.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Tools you can use to generate creativity, sidestep pitfalls, and solve problems.
BEGINNER'S MIND
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's there are few." Discover the
power and simplicity of beginner's mind.
EXPAND YOUR OPTIONS
If ideas and solutions are right under our nose, how come we can't see them? Go from tunnel vision
to a wide-angle lens.
CREATIVE TEAMS Two or more heads are often better than one - expand your creative potential with
others.
DESIGNED TO BLOW YOUR MIND The only thing holding you back is your current perceptions and
assumptions. Step out of the box!
"Creativity is the corporation's competitive edge. In the new corporation, creativity and
innovation are organizational treasures." -John Naisbitt, Megatrends
PROGRAM INFORMATION:
STEPPING OUT OF THE BOX: USING YOUR CREATIVE EDGE
and
STEPPING OUT OF THE BOX: MANAGING CHANGE
Stepping Out of the Box is an experiential presentation/workshop.
The content covers two elements:
innovation (creativity and problem-solving) and change management (adopting habits and attitudes
to facilitate change).
LENGTH
Either topic is available as a keynote or workshop, from 45 minutes up to a full day.
MIX & MATCH
Content may be custom designed for the occasion, allowing the client to:
* focus on either innovation or change as a topic, learning and using techniques on specific
issues
* combine both topics. This is a popular choice, since innovation is a natural outcome
of change.
PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
* for participants to notice their current way of thinking and begin to expand to a broader way
of thinking.
* to bring forth habits and attitudes essential for producing an innovation and
change-friendly environment.
* to learn new skills for ongoing innovation and change
management.
PHILOSOPHY AND APPROACH
Stepping Out of the Box is based on the philosophy that :
* everyone is born with the ability to be innovative and adaptive, and that ongoing practice is
the key to success.
* no special talent or training is required.
* innovation and change is a dynamic process, and success come from ongoing practice.
CONTENT:
THE EXERCISES
Stepping Out of the Box is delivered as a series of demonstrations and exercises. There are
exercises in drawing, writing, puzzles, problem solving, visual paradoxes, and more.
In contrast to how puzzles and problems are usually presented, participants are told that it
doesn't matter if you get it right, if you finish first, or even of you solve it at all. The sole
purpose of the puzzles is for participants to begin to notice their own thinking system. From
there they can begin to broaden their skills and resources.
Included are exercises that demonstrate:
* tunnel vision, or how our thinking and behavior tends to get locked into a consistent track.
* the idea of a paradigm shift, creating and adapting to a new set of rules and realities.
* how our perceptions limit us and how we can see beyond them to create greater options.
* how our assumptions can be dangerous, and how we can bring them to light and challenge them.
* how resistance to change can be transformed to causing change and making change work for us.
* the value of beginner's mind; going beyond familiarity and past experience to see with fresh
vision.
TECHNIQUES
Various techniques are presented that allow participants to generate ideas, solve problems, and
successfully manage change.
The techniques share the common elements of:
* simplicity : no manual or complicated procedures.
* versatility: can be used individually,
in groups, during meetings.
* effectiveness: many participants have forwarded their business
with these techniques
THE INNOVATION GROOVE: CREATIVITY THROUGH MUSIC
Creativity, Leadership, and Teamwork
Through Making Music
"Everything we do is music. Everywhere is the best seat."
John Cage
The act of making music engages many key elements necessary for innovation,
such as effective teamwork, emotional intelligence, logic, intuition,
improvisation, deep listening, full participation, and individual/group
dynamics.
Music is an exciting, experiential model for effective and holistic ways of
generating and implementing new ideas in a collaborative environment.
Playing and composing music, like the creative process itself, is a
balance between free-flow and structure, individual and team, leading and
following, mind and body. The musical process involves our emotional,
intellectual, and physical selves simultaneously. No musical experience is
necessary for participants!
OBJECTIVES:
1. To apply practical lessons from the music world to your own innovation
process.
2. To observe and encourage alternative perspectives on innovation.
3. To identify and move beyond your own limitations in creativity and
leadership.
4. To improve teamwork through the appreciation and encouragement of
diverse thinking styles and creative talents.
5. To improve interpersonal communication and understanding of others.
6. To encourage and identify multiple perspectives prior to resolving
issues or decision-making.
7. To facilitate and develop a group's ability to collaborate and make
decisions in the creative process.
TESTIMONIALS:
"I never would have believed I could have done it!"
"A touch of magic"
"Really fun and really different."
"A wonderful experience"
"...shows that we need the talents of each person to fit together to make
the unit complete"
"I learned to trust that no one will laugh at me for taking risks, and that
working together can be something enjoyable."
"I thought I had no rhythm, but in one session I found out that it is
really not all that difficult."
"You made it possible to totally let loose and not have to worry what
others think."
"Excellent change of pace and stress reliever."
"Demonstrates working in harmony together."
"We sometimes say we're working together, but this workshop really forces
us to in order to make things happen."
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BRIAN TATE is a vocalist, coach, pianist, and composer/arranger. He has
coached singers of all levels in all styles of music. Brian is music
director of Vancouver's multifaith Universal Gospel Choir and teaches
singing at Langara College's Studio 58 theatre school. He is also on the
faculty of Leadership Development at the Banff Centre. Brian is currently
performing a solo project entitled "Head Full of Voices" and also performs
with his band, the Brian Tate Quartet.
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