Importance of Increasing Creative Performance

You can have creativity without innovation, but you can't have innovation without creativity. Generating new, novel, and creative ideas are the key to innovation and growth in every organization today. Giving your people the tools to think creatively has been proven to increase innovation in organizations.

Increasing the Creative Performance of people in your organization will not only lead to innovation, but will also increase bottom-line profitability. Research shows that organizations armed with proven skill-bases and tools for creativity, out perform the competition in revenue, new product time to market, innovation and growth.

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How to Improve Creative Performance

The following services can help you improve creative performance in your organization.

Igniting Creative Potential
The Igniting Creative Potential (ICP) course is designed to help develop the necessary skills to think differently and build creative momentum in your organization. ICP uses a deliberate approach to creativity through teaching a proven skill-base and providing attendees with a hands-on learning experience.

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Improving the Climate for Change
The Improving the Climate for Change (ICC) intervention provides a snapshot of the climate for creativity within your organization.  Using the Situational Outlook Questionnaire® (SOQ), a multi-method, reliable, valid and useful tool built upon 50 years of research and practice, helps to gauge your organization’s readiness for creativity and change.  Understanding your climate will help to assist you in providing meaningful and lasting change in your organization.

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Leading Strategic Change
Research shows that leadership behavior at the organization and team levels is the most important influence on creating an environment that supports innovation and creativity.  The Situational Outlook Questionnaire® can be used not only to assess your organization's climate but it can be used to assist leaders in improving that climate.

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Teamwork for Transformation
The Teamwork for Transformation course uses a measure called VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style to analyze different problem solving styles.  We then show you how to use that style make-up to foster successful teamwork.

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Research Articles

Read research articles on the value of creativity training and facilitation skills courtesy of our Creativity Research Unit

Toward a model for the facilitation of creative problem solving. (An article by Isaksen published in the Journal of Creative Behavior that outlines a model for the effective facilitation of CPS)
Celebrating 50 years of reflective practice: Versions of creative problem solving. (An article by Isaksen and Treffinger published in the Journal of Creative Behavior that summarizes the many stages of development of the current version of CPS)
A re-examination of brainstorming research: Implications for research and practice. (An article by Isaksen and Gaulin published in The Gifted Child Quarterly that reviews previous brainstorming research and points out the importance of the facilitator's role)
An inquiry into cross-cultural creativity training: Results from a five-week study tour in Bergen and Bratislava. (A chapter by Isaksen and Dorval published in Discovering creativity that summarizes some key findings from cross-cultural training of CPS)
Transforming dreams into reality: The power of Creative Problem Solving. (A chapter by Isaksen published in Teaching for talent development: Current and expanding perspectives that provides support for the application of CPS)

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Client Success Stories

Click on any of the logos below to learn how they successfully used the Creative Problem Solving skill base to increase revenue and productivity.

Proctor and Gamble
Armstrong
United Way

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Contact Us

For more information on Improving Creative Performance contact us by:

email:
  info@cpsb.com
phone:
  1.888.424.2772 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm US, EST)
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  716.667.6070
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Orchard Park NY 14221 USA

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