For Managers: 10 things NOT to say in the new millennium workplace

Are you or your managers looking for ways to engage people in the workplace?  Do you want more creativity on the job day-to-day, are you seeking fresh ideas and new decisions? Businessweek ran a post that might interest you called 10 Things Only Bad Managers Say by Liz Ryan an expert on the new-millennium workplace [...]

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Is there a place for creativity in innovation?

Just back from the International Society for Professional Innovation Management Dynamics of Innovation conference in Bilbao, Spain.  Its purpose: to support professionals who are influencing changes in business and government through open innovation and collaboration: external, implementation, networks, customers, management, knowledge, intermediaries, approaches networks and technology transfer business models and value ideas and crowd sourcing [...]

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Another Certificate in Creativity Studies. See what’s being taught at Drexel.

Drexel University‘s Certificate in Creativity Studies is targeted to individuals who want to add creative thinking and problem solving to their professional competencies. It provides knowledge of the major creativity theories as a basis from which students can grow personally and enhance their workplace experience. They are also equipped to assess creative strengths. Their student [...]

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Creativity Courses on the Rise at Business Schools

I can’t help but be amazed by how many business people are catching the ‘creativity germ’.  Not surprising given the growing interest and focus on innovation. So the market is there, demand is growing and business schools are responding by offering creativity-related programs and courses.  I wonder if they are all teaching the same fundamentals [...]

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Creativity Master’s Programs in Malta, Do Creativity Professionals need Credentials? 

The Edward Debono Institute at the University of Malta grants a Master of Creativity and Innovation and a Master of Science in Strategic Innovation and Future Creation. A close look at their curricula shows the programs look just about the same -  how they are delivered differs. The first is held on campus, the second [...]

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New Creativity Master's Degree in London, UK

When I decided to go to the International Center for Studies in Creativity in Buffalo, NY to study creativity in 1977 many asked, “You are going where? Do do what? Can’t you study something real?” After earning the master’s degree in Creativity and Change Leadership years later, people were still uncertain of its value. In [...]

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