Description
Introduction
Traditionally, organisations have focused on making work look like a traditional industrial assembly line—logical and specialised. However, in today’s digital age, work is not a production line, it is knowledge centred. Knowledge work is context sensitive; it needs space and time to think and reflect, ask questions, and try things out. It needs curiosity and continuous learning, something that is missing in our out-dated approach.
What we need is to reintroduce the things that have been forgotten: creativity and playfulness. By reactivating these things, things we once instinctively knew, and infusing them into our work activities we are better able to adapt to an ever-evolving environment, and create organisations that are more innovative, flexible, and engaged.
Integrating art, artistic attitudes, and a creative practice into our work/processes creates a different way of working. It enables the adoption of agile/flexible behaviours and culture change which in turn allows the digital transformation of our organisations, so that they are successful in our knowledge age future.
What to Expect
The course is experiential, fun, engaging, and is about doing things differently, being curious, and open-minded.
In this program is completed over 4-half days, scheduled in agreement between the coachee/student and the instructor. Participants will be introduced to the ideas and necessity of re-activating something that was once the way we learned: creativity and play. We will talk about how these things are educated out of us, and why re-activating them benefits us and our organisations. The course will also help participants understand how to embed creativity into their KM strategies and activities in order to facilitate innovation and continuous learning in their organisations.
Participants will experience a variety of creative activities that they can add to their meetings, and workshops, as well as their every-day lives to bring in creative pauses to help re-focus and re-energise their organisations and themselves.
Participants will leave with a workbook that will support them in incorporating creative activities in their work and personal lives.
Learning Outcomes
- Different forms creativity can take
- Why it’s important to tap into our creativity
- Why and how knowledge management and creativity intersect and supports knowledge work
- An understanding and experience of how artistic attitudes and practices enhance our work and life
- Understanding and experience with the enhancement of adaptability, coping with uncertainty and change, resilience, empathy, decision making through creativity
- Experience with short, ice-breaker-type activities to make online and in-person meetings more engaging and creative and to help us be more mindful
- How to incorporate creativity into their organisation’s knowledge management activities
Materials Required
- 1 stretched canvas, 20cm x 20cm (8” x 8”) (or bigger if you like, but not smaller)
- 1 beginner set of acrylic paints (8 colours) or you can just buy individual paints in colours you like
- 1 set of brushes (5 acrylic paint brushes)
- 1 Masking tape (optional)
- 1 set of pallet knives (optional)
- 1 pallet (optional, you can us a paper/plastic plate, lids from yogurt)
- Other things you may have around for making marks, e.g. old credit cards, old or plastic cutlery, pieces of plastic wrap (you can use the plastic that the canvas was wrapped in), bubble wrap
- 3 buckets for water—large plastic containers from yogurt, rice pudding, or ice cream work well
- Roll of paper towels
- Plastic sheeting for the table/floor
- Disposable gloves (optional)
Note: the cost of the course is €2500.00 with €125.00 added due to the processing costs imposed by the credit card companies and various online payment systems. There is no easy way for me to add this as a separate line item in the shopping cart. If you would like to be invoiced for the course and avoid these fees, please contact me. Thank you for your understanding, Stephanie Barnes.
