Creativity and Facilitation Training

Invest in your team’s ability to pursue big ideas and accelerate positive change.

Learn repeatable techniques to spark inventiveness, improve decision-making, and facilitate more productive conversations.

Bite-sized training and creativity bursts

Lunch and Learn

Learning experiences to spark creativity and collaboration

1–2 hour • Virtual or in-person

Problem
We’re stuck in the daily grind and brainstorming goes nowhere. Help!

Solution
Practice proven creativity tools for immediate results on your current challenges.

Improved outcomes to expect
You’ll hear your employees and communities say: “There may be a new way of thinking about this. Let’s explore some options together.”

Nurturing Creative Collaboration Series

  • Learn how to provide feedback and direction that people actually want and will lead to improvements.

    Even more, learn how to better ask for feedback to get the information you need.

  • High-performing teams don’t happen by accident.

    Invite your team to co-create a blueprint for a well-balanced team: clarify direction, establish boundaries, and celebrate what makes your team unique.

  • Are you frustrated when people shut you down when you want to dream big? Or when someone is still coming up with new ideas when it’s time to make a decision?

    Different types of thinking are likely the culprit.

    Learn how design tools can guide divergent and convergent thinking at the right moments to propel projects forward.

New Perspectives Series

  • Do your brainstorming discussions seem to go in circles? The problem isn’t a lack of passion or ideas, it’s the lack of a tried and true structure to guide the process.

    Learn a straightforward technique to prompt unexpected ideas and engage everyone one your team.

  • During times of disruption and uncertainty, it is critical to learn as fast as possible. But you don’t have to take risks on untested strategies!

    Instead, look outside your field to glean novel insights for improving service delivery. Sharpen your observation skills and learn how to spot opportunities everywhere you go.

Mid-sized training investments

Facilitation Training

Learn skills to apply to your challenges immediately, customizable to your team

2–8 hours • Virtual or in-person

Problem
We waste time in meetings and talk past each other.

Solution
Employ frameworks for planning and conversing that allow you to listen deeply, check for understanding, and guide conversations with kindness.

Improved outcomes to expect
Let people know what to expect by using clear meeting agendas. Make progress with defined decision-making procedures. Smooth tensions and embrace new points of view.

Facilitation Series Topics

  • Tired of yet another meeting that could have been an email? Is your project stalled because people aren’t on the same page?

    Introduce decision-making processes to your team that will reduce repetitive meetings, make projects run smoother, and provide information to the people who need it.

  • Nonviolent communication provides a simple, but powerful framework for listening and communicating with others.

  • Let people know what to expect with clear meeting agendas.

    By sharing your plan for the meeting ahead of time, you can better stay on track and waste less of everyone’s time figuring it out on the fly.

  • Transform your ability to make progress in meetings. Learn practical techniques for capturing information visually and guiding the verbal conversation as it unfolds.

  • Explore the principles of human-centered design and practice core techniques to use right away

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

–Zen master Suzuki Roshi