Audience: Groups facing challenging circumstances
Competencies: Innovative Thinking, Creative Leadership, Attitude Management
Program Format: Keynote to two-day seminar

Tough times require MORE creativity and innovation. In this compelling, inspiring and energizing program you will learn how to:

• Strengthen creative resilience: How to cultivate an optimistic mindset in difficult circumstances.
• Apply the example of history’s greatest minds in response to adversity.
• Utilize the 5 core skills of creative problem solving.
• Apply those skills to your greatest current challenges.
• Communicate in a way that inspires others.
• Transform stress into energy for innovation.

Anyone can be optimistic when everything is rosy but it only counts when times are tough. Without creative optimism there is no innovation. And, this program is more than just an inspiring motivational exercise, it is an educational experience that will empower your group to be their best in the face of adversity.

Discovering Opportunity in Uncertainty & Change

A special adaptation of this program for teams who are most impacted by job losses. Those who are keeping their jobs while colleagues are being let go often suffer from Survivors Guilt. Layoffs affect the morale, and often the productivity, of friends and associates who continue in the organization. This program is also particularly beneficial for those who are losing their jobs or who may be losing their jobs.

A few months ago one of my long term clients announced more than 8,000 layoffs. The division that I’m most involved with discovered that they were losing more than 100 people. And many more are living with uncertainty about their future. Unlike many organizations who reflexively cancel all their leadership development efforts in difficult times, this client understands that these efforts are even more important in a downturn.

During a recent week of intensive training devoted to supporting key leaders in promoting innovation, we included a special program for the people who were most affected by the losses, including those who are losing their jobs and those who were uncertain about their future.

The intention was to help the participants take a positive, proactive approach to the challenging circumstances that had been thrust upon them. The result? As the V.P. who coordinated the program commented, “At first everyone was pretty skeptical, but they left feeling inspired, renewed and empowered.”

Program topics include:

• How to Develop a Creative Approach to Change
• Clarifying Personal Purpose and Values
• Creative Thinking Tools for Crafting a New Vision
• How to Set and Manifest Goals Using the Strategies of Genius
• High Performance Goal-setting Exercise
• Practical Exercises for Transforming Stress
• Team Approach to Goal Review and Refinement

This seminar helps all participants become more creative, resilient and resourceful in the face of challenging circumstances.