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The Power of Creative Project Management
(1-day, 8 PDUs)
Course Overview:
Build excitement and enthusiasm with your team by learning creative techniques that geniuses like Leonardo Da Vinci have been using since the beginning of mankind. Learn how to differentiate yourself and your project by managing creatively. Spawn solutions that engage and excite your team and that will awe your stakeholders.
This fascinating session covers how to infuse creativity into your project work and everyday life. It will embolden team members to be more innovative by using creative techniques that improve team performance throughout the project life cycle. Learn how to conduct creative team sessions and collect your team’s ideas using project journaling. Apply mind mapping techniques to breakdown work tasks and determine risks. Use vision boards to communicate goals and to get everyone fired-up for a successful project completion.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Kick off your project in a new and fun way
- Learn new brainstorming techniques
- Explore Mind Mapping
- Employ tips from geniuses
- Use visual problem solving methods
- Learn your brain dominance (right or left)
- Know how to deal with creative and logical minds
- Feel comfortable saying what needs to be said
- Tell the story of your project
- Leverage artistic techniques that make deliverables design appealing
- Implement strategies for dealing with change and stress
Course Agenda:
- What you need to know about Creativity and Genius
- Eight simple practices to use everyday
- Visual Problem Solving Methods
- Project Case Study
- Project Differentiators
- Principles of design
- Elements of art
- Mind Mapping
- Pursuit of Whole Brain Thinking
- Creativity test
- Conflict resolution
- Change management
- Stress relief
- Corporate Creativity
- Corporate collage
- Project vision
- Project journaling
Supplies Needed:
Pencil, drawing pad, fresh notebook or journal, ink pens (black, red, blue), map pencils, markers, scissors, glue and a couple favorite magazines.
Who Should Attend:
- Project stakeholders who are responsible for, or participate in, planning and managing projects.
- Project and Program Managers – Senior, Associate, In-Training
- Project Coordinators
- Project Sponsors and Executives
- Senior Business Analysts
- Those interested in having fun
- Looking to be more creative
- Seeking ways to inspiration themselves and others
- Interested in mind mapping
- Want to learn art techniques
- Willing to be adventurous with painting and writing
- Open to new possibilities
Instructor(s) Who Lead this Course:
