Creativity and Innovation Certificate
About the Certificate
Because organizations must innovate to stay alive in today’s highly competitive marketplace, organizations need employees who can channel their creativity and innovation toward organizational challenges and goals. This certificate program will first help you become reacquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Next, you are given a set of tools that allow you to leverage your creativity to identify and solve organizational problems. One activity asks you how you might look at a problem from a different angle to produce a more creative result; others walk you through the process of using analogies or replacement techniques to invent creative solutions to problems.
Courses include:
- Creativity in Teams and Organizations
- Innovation in Teams and Organizations
- Introduction to Critical Thinking
- Personal Creativity

Professional Development Institute
Janet M. Jones, Director, Professional Development Institute
570-945-8621
John P. Gorel, Director, Corporate Relations
570-945-8622
Learning outcomes:
- Learn the tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings
- Explore the need for creativity, including idea champions, idea incubators, new venture teams, and the process of moving from innovation to commercialization
- Learn how to define, identify and develop critical thinking and reasoning skills
- Learn to tap into your personal creativity and apply it to organizational challenges
Estimated length: 18 hours
Access Time: 360 days
1.8 CEUs | 5 (ISC)2 CPEs
Delivery: Online
Cost: $249
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