Unleashing the Creative Potential of Your Teams

Many companies are returning to a changed business context and need to quickly solve a range of new problems or reinvent their products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to innovate. Many fewer recognize that achieving these creative results efficiently requires an effective process, specific skills and tools, and the right blend of thinking styles working in sync with one another. When any of these are lacking, teams may struggle to innovate. To help leaders, business owners and HR professionals engage these challenges, Ellen Moran and Tim Basadur will provide an introduction to the Simplexity Method for Applied Innovation which is designed to enable teams and organizations to achieve innovative results quickly.

Session Outcomes:

• Discover the necessary elements for innovative results – The Innovative Results Equation • Learn the four creative problem-solving preferences of team members and how their way of interacting can be a facilitator or roadblock for team innovation. • Understand the four-stage innovation process to move teams through problem-finding, problem-defining, problem solving and solution implementation in a way that drives strong team alignment and commitment. • Leave with practical tools and frameworks that can immediately boost creative collaboration where you work.