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

Certificate in Creativity and Innovation

Professional Development Institute

Janet M. Jones, Director, Professional Development Institute
570-945-8621

John P. Gorel, Director, Corporate Relations
570-945-8622

Email: pdi@keystone.edu

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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