[Baynet] Infopeople's "Building Leadership Skills: Stimulating Creativity" workshop

[Linda Rodenspiel]

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Title:  Building Leadership Skills: Stimulating Creativity

Dates and locations:

Wednesday, April 4, San Francisco Public Library
Thursday, April 5, South Natomas Library (Sacramento)
Tuesday, April 17, San Diego County Library Headquarters
Wednesday, April 18, Buena Park Library District
Thursday, April 19, Pio Pico Koreatown Library (Los Angeles)
Tuesday, May 1, San Jose Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Wednesday, May 2, Fresno Woodward Park Library

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/workshop/314

Fee:  There is a $75.00 fee for this workshop.

Libraries today face the need to transform the way they design and deliver 
services. Leaders are expected to be innovative and to stimulate creativity 
within individuals and groups. This means that leaders at every level need 
to understand the creative process and learn effective ways to foster 
creativity and innovation. Through your participation in this workshop you 
will:

--Understand the creative process and how creativity differs from innovation,
--Learn how to express and enhance your own creativity,
--Identify blocks to the creative process, both within individuals and in 
organizations,
--Determine how to remove barriers and blocks to creativity,
--Apply your own creativity to problem solving and effective decision 
making in groups, and
--Learn practical tools and techniques for creative problem solving.

This program will prepare you to lead others, individually and in groups, 
to be more creative in planning and problem solving.


Workshop Description: This one-day interactive workshop will provide 
participants with the skills they need to foster creativity in individuals 
and groups. They will learn what research shows about how the creative 
process occurs in the human brain, how to stimulate their own creativity, 
and how to engage others in creative work. Through individual reflection 
and small group discussion they will explore ways remove barriers to 
creativity in organizations and identify steps to enhance innovation in 
services, programs, and work processes. Participants will practice some of 
the proven tools and techniques for creative thinking in group problem 
solving. Each will leave with a set of practical tools and techniques that 
can be applied in the workplace.

Preliminary Course Outline

Understanding the Creative Process
--What research tells us about creativity in people
--Creativity vs. innovation
--The ingredients of creativity

Expressing Your Own Creativity
--Self-assessment exercise
--Benefits from enhancing your own creativity
--Identifying blocks to your own creativity

Engaging Others in the Creative Process
--Identifying and removing blocks to creativity in the workplace
--Stimulating creativity in groups
--Creative thinking: some tools and techniques

Leading for Creativity
--Building a climate for creativity and innovation
--Skills practice
--Keeping creativity alive

Workshop Instructor:  Maureen Sullivan.  Maureen is an organization 
development consultant whose practice focuses on the delivery of consulting 
and training services to libraries and other
information organizations. She has more than twenty five years of 
experience as a consultant on organization development, strategic planning, 
leadership development, introducing and managing
organizational change, organization and work redesign, establishment of 
staff development and learning programs for today's workplace, creating a 
work environment that supports diversity, revision of position
classification and compensation systems, and the identification and 
development of competencies.

Who Should Attend: This workshop is designed for California library 
community managers, innovators, and emerging leaders who want to enhance 
their own creativity and who want to be able lead for creativity and 
innovation.

Prerequisites: None

Other Logistics:

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM.

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the Infopeople 
website at http://infopeople.org/workshop/location  Infopeople does not 
validate or pay for parking.

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some training 
locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, Infopeople 
recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general information 
about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main Infopeople 
Workshops page at http://www.infopeople.org/workshop

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, please 
contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at 
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.