This course empowers learners to develop their creative human potential to improve, enhance, and transform  their businesses, communities, and personal lives. Processes like Intelligent Fast Failure will teach you rapid prototyping skills, while the Adaption-Innovation creative style spectrum will help you understand how and why your ideas are unique - and how you can work better with others to solve complex problems.

Personal reflection tools like CENTER add a character development dimension to the course that is an important first step towards unlocking your creative potential. Along the way, you will engage with a rich set of tools, exercises, and metrics in order to understand these concepts and how they impact the development of your creative life and career.

Joining the team are Dr. Susan Russell, Associate Professor of Theater and Dr. John Bellanti, Psychologist. Susan will lend her unique artistic talents to video production and course projects. John is a life coach and will be guiding students from a behavioral change perspective during their creative journey in the course.

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Time-frame: 8 weeks, starting in September 2013

Week 1: Creative Identity

• The Importance of Failure

• Creative Diversity

• Establishing and Building Character

Week 2: Idea Generation

• Ideation Methods

• Idea Journal

• Creative Divergence

Week 3: Idea Evaluation

• Idea Evaluation Methods

• Critical Problem Solving Techniques

• Establishing What to do and How to do it

Week 4: Building a Creative Team

• Creative Diversity Application

• Collaboration Skills

• Team Formation in Organizations

Week 5: Inspiration and Research

• Receiving advice and feedback

• Finding out what others have done

Week 6: Creativity Metrics

• 8th Muda: Measuring Latent Creativity

• Level and Style Metrics

• Lag versus Lead Metrics

Week 7: Experiment Planning and Prototyping

• Problem Solving Methods

• Intelligent Fast Failure and Experimentation

• Taking Full Ownership Creative Project

Week 8: CIC Synthesis and Reflection

• Next Steps

• CLICK: Creating Leadership through Ideas resulting in Change and Knowledge

• Project Showcasing

An open mind, and a willingness to create your future!

Although many of the class materials will be provided online, students who want to expand their knowledge beyond the materials provided can find further coverage of the course topics in various recommended readings, which will include (among others): 

Recommended:

• Innovate or Die!, Dr. Jack V. Matson (1996)
• Wild Scholars, Dr. Darrell Velegol (2011)
• Creative Diversity, Dr. Kathryn Jablokow (2013) - in press