Course description
Ideation & Creativity: an experiential learning in-house workshop
Everyone, no matter the industry, is looking for the next new idea. A company's success, however, is dependent on good ideas, not necessarily new ones. Contrary to popular belief, good ideas don't generally appear from the ether. You can't wait for good ideas. You have to go get them.
Breathe fresh air into your daily activities
This Ideation & Creativity in-house workshop is designed to engage organizations in the sometimes messy process of getting to good ideas. Whether for building new customer relationships, ideas for new products, or new ways to market services, this interactive workshop brings solutions within reach. OYF methodologies and improv-based techniques are designed to help clients think beyond current challenges, develop new ideas, and even surprise themselves.
The three steps for developing great ideas:
- Create the right conditions
- Re-frame the problem
- Break routine
Facilitated Collaboration
OYF assembles teams by blending business and leadership professionals from across a broad range of industries with highly trained improv performers. By combining these two radically different schools of knowledge, On Your Feet delivers ideation workshops that not only excite, but get results.
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Who should attend?
This highly interactive experiential learning approach to creativity and ideation is designed for companies large and small looking for new ways of thinking creatively and developing good ideas.
For more information on suitability, please contact OYF here.
Training content
This Ideation on-site/in-house workshop is customized to meet the creativity and innovation needs of individual companies. This said, workshop goals tend to include aspects of either one or both of the following:
More, different and better ideas
Creating ideas that break the mold is NOT about discussion. Settling into a nice comfortable chat about best practice and technological trends is a sure way to entrench habits and waste time dwelling on the same, tired concepts. The key to new ideas is getting out of the comfort zone and breaking away from the patterns formed by round table discussions.
OYF does just this by using improvisational techniques, "human storyboarding", material mechanisms, pictures, sounds, movement, other multi-sensory stimuli, and physical space.
Focused ideation: marketing ideas, new product innovation and naming
Improvisation is used to break away from normal, habitual communication but not all techniques are the same and customizations are made based on company needs. Human Storyboarding, for example, is an ideal technique when formulating marketing ideas or digging deep for a potential new product. OYF professional improvisers are also trained in lateral thinking techniques, useful for generating ideas in a variety of ways from naming to reassessing business models.
Costs
On Your Feet Workshop Fees
On Your Feet workshops and keynote programs are highly customized to meet specific company needs. Fees vary depending on the amount of design required as well as delivery specifications. All workshops are delivered by at least two facilitators. OYF has its global headquarters in Portland, OR. Courses booked within 50 miles of Portland, therefore, usually don't incur travel and lodging expenses for facilitators.
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On Your Feet (OYF) brings together great minds from both the business world and artistic professions to offer something new in answer to modern business challenges. Utilizing experiential learning techniques based in improvisation and related skills, OYF enables companies both...