Creativity & Innovation Classes
Creativity, innovation and critical thinking are all vital skills in today's job market. Make sure your skills are up to date with our self-paced online Creativity & Innovation Training. All of our classes can be taken individually or as part of our Certificate in Innovation and Critical Thinking. These online classes combine an interactive study experience with the convenience of the Internet. Our online creativity and innovation courses are perfect for individual professional development but also for organizations with a group of employees to train. Enroll today!
- Self-paced, web-based classes
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- Print your certificate upon class completion
Cost: $249.00
Access Time: 360 days
CEUs: 1.8
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. Our self-paced online classes will first help you become re-acquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Learn more about creativity, innovation and critical thinking by taking our Innovation and Critical Thinking Certificate Program.
Complete Certificate in Innovation and Critical Thinking Description
Cost: $79.00
Access Time: 90 days
CEUs: 0.5
This creativity class looks at spurring creativity and innovation in teams and organizations. Drawing on the latest academic thinking, it outlines the key factors for creative teams. Further, the class focuses on tools and techniques designed to yield more productive thinking in collective settings. Participants learn about a number of targeted tools (including brainstorming, Discussion 66, Provocation, and others) to generate fresh thinking in smaller group settings and in their organizations.
Cost: $79.00
Access Time: 90 days
CEUs: 0.3
This class looks at innovation in corporations and the public sector. It reviews the latest academic thinking on innovation, including Clay Christensen's seminal thinking on disruptive technology and the proper response. Further, it explores some of the internal responses to the need for creativity, including idea champions, idea incubators, new venture teams and skunk works, and the process of moving from innovation to commercialization.
Cost: $95.00
Access Time: 90 days
CEUs: 0.7
This class is an introduction to the importance of critical thinking in the business world. Critical thinking is an intellectual model for reasoning through issues to reach well-founded conclusions about them. Asking questions is at the heart of critical thinking.
Cost: $79.00
Access Time: 90 days
CEUs: 0.3
This online class addresses Personal Creativity. Through tools and exercises drawn from Adrian Brown's book, Creativity & Innovation, it seeks to help unlock the creativity within individuals. By stimulating creativity through various techniques (mind-mapping, DO-IT, SCAMPER, right and left brain thinking) participants learn to tap into their personal creativity and apply it to organizational challenges.