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MLC 170 - Creativity and Innovation Management

Code Start Date Duration Venue
MLC 170 30 June 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 07 July 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 04 August 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 01 September 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 27 October 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 24 November 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
MLC 170 22 December 2025 5 Days Istanbul Registration Form Link
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Course Description

Innovation is the lifeblood of organizational success in a rapidly evolving business landscape. This course explores how to foster creativity, manage innovative processes, and build a culture that supports continuous improvement and breakthrough thinking. Participants will learn frameworks and tools for idea generation, problem-solving, and implementing innovative strategies. From design thinking to innovation leadership, this course equips learners with the skills to turn creative potential into tangible results that drive growth and adaptability.

Course Objectives

  • Understanding why creativity is important to a project and how to incorporate it into multiple projects
  • Discovering tools for successfully leading change efforts and driving them forward
  • Exploring the consequences of an absence of creativity in projects
  • Learning to foster an environment that balances risk with creativity
  • Learning to balance the polarities of deliberate planning with innovation
  • Challenging the way you approach problems and learning new techniques for solving them
  • Encouraging creative thinking, idea generation, and problem-solving within your project teams
  • Enhancing morale, team performance, and collaboration

Who Should Attend?

  • Managers
  • Executives
  • Supervisors
  • Team leaders and members
  • Anyone who is responsible for the Creativity and Innovation Management

Course Details/Schedule

Day 1

  • The nature of creativity and innovation
  • Benefits of using a creative approach
  • the difference between creativity & innovation
  • The impact of the absence of creativity 
  • Social norms and individual creativity
  • Breaking through thought patterns and assumptions
  • Recognising left and right brain thinking

Day 2

  • The development stage of an innovation project
  • Generating creative ideas
  • Generativity theory
  • Techniques for generating ideas
  • Brainstorming or blue sky thinking
  • Reverse brainstorming
  • Sort cards or mind maps
  • Sticky notes/Metaplanning technique

Day 3

  • Fostering a creative and innovative environment
  • Conditions needed to build innovation capability
  • Include multiple perspectives
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Turn creativity into insights, ideas, opportunities and action
  • Eliminating barriers to creativity

Day 4

  • The importance of creativity in leadership 
  • How to embody creativity in leadership
  • Creativity as a teamwork 
  • Creativity consulting
  • Leading a cooperative, innovative team 
  • Storytelling techniques
  • Sharing knowledge with others
  • Idea management types and challenges

Day 5

  • Core critical thinking skills and concepts
  • Importance of analytical and critical thinking
  • Analytical thinking tools 
  • Collecting facts
  • Questioning
  • Making inference
  • Evaluating evidence