Facilitate creative meetings and boost ongoing innovation

Training Theme

This training helps transform traditional meetings into creative and collaborative sessions. It presents a structured method for integrating innovation into each meeting via the "innovation quarter of an hour". Participants discover techniques such as 6-3-5 Brainwriting and its online adaptation, which can stimulate collective creativity in an effective way. The training emphasizes the role of the manager as a facilitator rather than a simple facilitator, to bring out collective intelligence. Practical tools and concrete examples allow for immediate application of the concepts learned.

Training Objectives

In this course, you will discover the benefits of organizing so-called "creative" meetings to:

• Co-decide, co-create, and co-build projects together through highly collaborative/creative meetings.
• Bring out the best of collective intelligence by facilitating meetings in a collaborative mode.
• Create stronger team commitment to the topics discussed: changes, new projects, etc.
• Boost the motivation and creativity of your team and strengthen cohesion.
• Develop the human qualities of the entire team: listening, open-mindedness, initiative, and boldness.

Target Audience 

​Anyone in a situation of conducting or participating in meetings.

Means and Methods 

• E-learning Modules: Consisting of text, videos, interactive content, and quizzes designed to help you achieve the defined learning outcomes.
• Additional resources: Downloadable documents such as the coaching memo sheet (PDF).

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• A time dedicated to innovation: The quarter of an hour of innovation
• An idea to present? How to present your idea to the team

LEARN

• Expert video: Why do creative meetings?, 4'31
  • The manager becomes a facilitator to bring out collective intelligence during creative meetings
• 6-3-5 Brainwriting: written brainstorming technique to generate ideas collectively
• Online Brainwriting in 8 steps:
  • Preparation
  • Definition of the subject
  • Startup
  • Idea Rotation
  • Building on ideas
  • Repeating the process
  • Review of ideas
  • Final selection
• Quizzes and TRUE/FALSE

ANCHOR

• Best practices for facilitating effective creative meetings
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents:
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)
• Bonus: TED or Youtube video(s)