Creativity & Problem Solving

Your team will snap to attention with this meeting opener video with 4 problem solving techniques

What about this second problem: How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator? Will the simple answer work here too? Can the man in our video just stuff the elephant there? He tries hard but fails. He forgot that the giraffe is still there. He didn't think about the consequences of his previous action. Two more problems must be faced by the man in our video before learning the four problem solving techniques offered:

• Consider simple answers before looking for complicated ones.
• Think about the consequences of your actions.
• Use all available information.
• Focus on the big picture, not just a small part of it.

If meetings and training sessions are an essential part of your organization, you know the importance of getting off to a good start. If your goal is to get everyone to contribute, this quick and quirky video is the way to achieve it. It will challenge any audience to think right out of the gate - and out of the box. Using fun riddles and entertaining animation, this short video will supercharge every ones brain before the real business of the session begins.

Great for: New Hires / Front-line Personnel / Middle Managers / Senior Executives

The complete package includes: Video-running time, 5 minute running time + 5 minute discussion

Tape includes both Linear and Discussion Versions / Giraffe Bean Bag / Two Participant Pads

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Everyday Creativity teaches a surprising truth about creativity - that it's not a magical, mysterious occurrence, but a ready tool that enables you to look at the ordinary and see the ... extraordinary. Hosted by photojournalist Dewitt Jones, longtime National Graphic photographer and Academy Award nominated director, Everyday Creativity shares Jones' inspirational stories, memorable locations, and stunning examples of his work.

You'll feel inspired and encouraged to apply his simple, yet powerful creativity techniques to all of your everyday challenges. And, without a doubt, your new solutions will mean the difference between just getting by and being successful.

Each Everyday Creativity package includes a comprehensive leader's guide, participant workbook, PowerPoint presentation on CD-ROM, and pocket reminder cards - everything you'll need to begin training.

Everyday Creativity is one of the most empowering video's I have ever seen. It has the ability to go beyond today into the future. - Dick Wills, UMC

Key Learning Points

• Creativity is a matter of perspective.
• There's always more than one right answer.
• Don't be afraid to make mistakes.
• Learn to break the pattern.
• Reframe problems into opportunities.
• Train your technique.

Tactics of Innovation explores a problem that plagues organizations everywhere, why smart people reject good ideas.

In this landmark video, Joel Barker goes on location to share stories on why people say "no" to new ideas. More important, he introduces a ten step strategy on how to remove barriers between new ideas and people who naturally resist change. These tactics will dramatically increase the acceptance of any kind of idea

Why is it important to understand Tactics of Innovation? Because, "it is natural and logical for people to resist change," says Joel Barker. New ideas upset the balance and change makes things difficult. Only by developing the ability to present your idea from the users point of view will you be able to achieve success.

Tactics of Innovation is an important message for business, nonprofit, government, education, healthcare - any organization that wishes to not only discover new ideas, but bring them into practice.

Key Learning Points:

• What social equilibrium is and how it impacts new ideas.
• The value of presenting ideas from the users point of view.
• A ten-step strategy for getting new ideas accepted!

In these nine programs, you will learn how to use creativity and innovation to find solutions for challenges within organizations, families, and communities.

Most people appreciate innovations benefits, but few actively pursue it because of a fear of failure. Why? Because people are afraid of change. However, danger and failure can act as a catalyst for innovationspawning adventure, exploration, and fun! Laughter is often the sound of innovation being born.

In Free Radicals of Innovation, you will become more comfortable with risk and learn tools and techniques to create new solutions.

Nine Training Programs:

• Innovate or Die (4 Min.)
• Understanding 6P Innovation (8 Min.)
• Overcoming Fear & Managing Risk (5 Min.)
• Preparing Your Mind (11 Min,)
• Building an Innovation Toolbox (15 Min.)
• Inventing The Future (7 Min.)
• Creating A Culture of Innovation (9 Min.)
• Collaborating: Leveraging Diversity ( 7 Min.)
• What's Your Problem (5 Min.)

Package Includes:

DVD, Bits and Pieces CD-ROM, leader's Guide, Workbook, Pocket Reminder Cards

5-day DVD Rental $295.00

Purchase: $695

25% Discounted price for Government, Nonprofits, Education and Consultants at 521.25

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Ever have a great idea that was shot down before you had a change to try it out? You may have been the victim of a “killer phrase.” Creativity and innovation can be squelched by the use of these politically correct killer phrases, such as "it'll never fly," "we tried it before," and “it’s not in the budget.”

“Yes, But…” is based on the best-selling paperback book by Charles "Chic" Thompson. It offers the best I.D.E.A. ever put forth for defusing "killer phrases" and the people who use them.

Viewers learn to... I dentify killer phrases; D eal with their root causes; E xplore options for giving negative thinkers new perspectives; A ct on the strongest options.. and, listen for affirmative "Yes, and…” "what if..." and "what a great idea" language. The “ Yes, But” program encourages a humorous, non-confrontational strategy to bullet-proof your own great ideas, and encourage great ideas in your colleagues and staff. Warning: Use this program and your meetings may never be the same again! Package Includes: DVD Length: 13 Minutes Purchase: $295

Discovering The Future Series: The Power of Vision by Joel Barker

How did most of a sixth grade class in a neighborhood where few students even finish high school beat the odds and go to college? How do organizations inspire their employees to be more than observers, to actively create their futures?

The Power of Vision demonstrates that having a positive vision of the future is the most forceful motivator for change-for success-that companies, schools, communities, nations, and individuals possess.

Unforgettable and moving, The Power of Vision will inspire the people in your organization to think together, dream together, and act together to make a difference.

Having a positive vision of the future is what gives meaning to our present life. Joel Barker, The Power of Vision.

Key Concepts

Create a compelling vision that goes beyond numbers.

Challenge others to stretch beyond their perceived limits.

Inspire a personal, daily connection to a shared vision.

Improve decision making

Purchase DVD or VHS for $695.00

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Harvard and Stanford lecturer John Kao demolishes the myth that creativity cannot be fostered within the corporate environment.

Not only can creativity be cultivated within corporations, creative capital may be a company's most important asset, providing the innovative thinking that will give companies a distinct competitive advantage.

Kao links the creative process to jamming in jazz. Just as musicians improvise in a jam session, a group of business people can take an idea, challenge each other's imagination, and produce an entirely new set of possibilities.

The video shows how these companies employed jamming into their organizations: IDEO, a leading industrial design firm, SENCO, a tool manufacturing plant, and Coca-Cola.

Length: 25 min.

Purchase DVD for $595.00

An exciting, story-driven film touting expansive thinking. It challenges viewers to: go beyond their boundaries, discover their capabilities to achieve, self-motivate, problem solve, and believe in themselves.

Length: 9 min.

PURCHASE DVD $295.00

Utilizing a unique story-telling format, viewers are challenged to put muscle behind their dreams, motivate themselves to embrace change, and break away from the model to expand their thinking.

Length: 7 min.

PURCHASE DVD $295.00

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