Topic: Creating Climates for Innovation; Tools to help you diagnose &
design workplaces that are geared for Innovation and Creativity
Date: Oct 29, 1997, 6:30-9:30 pm Location: Design Exchange, 234 Bay St,
Patty Watt Conf Room, 4th Floor. Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Are you concerned with improving the effectiveness of your work team?
Have you ever wondered why an individual will work very well on one
project and not so well on another ? Do you believe that organizational
climate factors can effect performance? As managers we often talk about
recognizing individual differences and the importance of diversity, yet we
also experience strong pressure from our organization to fit in. Find out
how you can recognize the value of differences in personal problem-solving
styles to achieve your business objectives and what you can do to create
climates conducive to building your intellectual capital.
Speakers:
Walter Derzko, Director of the Idea Lab, a pilot project at the Design
Exchange and Andrew Guido, a senior facilitator, Idea Lab will discuss the
Gregoric Learning Style instrument that the Idea Lab uses to screen
"outside expert" participants who sit in on idea generation sessions
organized by the Idea Lab at the Design Exchange. Creativity Consortium
participants will have the opportunity to do a self assessment to see if
the have a preference for dealing and working with abstract vs concrete
ideas or concepts and how they like to work with information, ideas or
concepts or have it presented to them - in a random or sequential way.
Tracey Lawko, MBA, is the President of Tracey Lawko Consulting, a
management consulting firm that focuses on creating climates for
creativity that are appropriate to the organization setting. She uses
well-validated diagnostic instruments such as the Kirton Adaptor Innovator
(KAI) Instrument ( a measure of personal problem-solving) and the KEYS
Survey of Climate developed by Harvard professor Teresa Amabile for the
Centre for Creative Leadership in the USA.
To register for the Oct 29th meeting of the Creativity Consortium, call
Walter Derzko, Director Idea Lab, Design Exchange, Toronto at (416)
216-2139 No email registrations.
Meeting Cost: $30 guests, $20 members, $15 full time students Material Fee
for the Gregoric learning style instrument: $10 for guests, free for
Creativity Consortium members.
--Walter Derzko <wd@itrc.on.ca>
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