Creativity Toolkit I: Changing Perspectives

Instructor: Jeffrey Loewenstein , Jack Goncalo , Ravi Mehta

Beginner Level • 2 weeks at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • ✓Generate creative ideas and solutions more frequently.
  • ✓Progress through the creative process more efficiently and systematically.
  • ✓Generate more and better creative ideas.
  • ✓Develop greater perseverance even in the face of rejection.

Skills You'll Gain

Open Mindset
Initiative and Leadership
Curiosity
Persistence
Creative Thinking
Cognitive flexibility
Organizational Leadership
Creativity
Ideation
Self-Motivation
Innovation
Creative Problem-Solving
Adaptability

Shareable Certificate

Earn a shareable certificate to add to your LinkedIn profile

Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

You will become familiar with the course, your classmates, and our learning environment. The orientation will also help you obtain the technical skills required for the course.

In this module you will learn why creativity matters, what creativity is, and how to get started being creative.

In this module you will learn a way to break down what it is we are currently thinking so that we can consider changing it to generate new outcomes.

In this module, you will learn that creativity can be joyful, intrinsically motivating, and even liberating. You will also learn how to manage your organization so that your employees find ways to persist through the process as well.

We want to be more creative ourselves, and we also want to support the creativity of others. In this module, we examine how to help encourage creativity in our teams and organizations. We explore how the cultures we set can support creativity though supporting members’ motivation to be creative and providing opportunities to be creative. We examine how core tasks around providing feedback, setting rewards, and managing resources and setting constraints can encourage rather than discourage creativity. We also review the role of context, and how the spaces in which we work signal creativity is welcome or unwelcome. Through our actions and leadership, we can foster openness, autonomy, and playful experimentation, and thereby support creativity in our teams and organizations.