Doing two things at once

I have the challenge of wanting to do two things with one block of time. Firstly I want to keep this Blog up to date and secondly, I want to draft up a training module about creativity and innovation in organisations. In the spirit of wanting to have my cake and eat it too, I will draft the training post by post into this blog.

There will be a couple of posts that sort through the rough outline, then I will populate the topcis themselves.

Today's view of the outline is:

1. Definition of and difference between creativity and innovation
2. Potentially the potted history of creativity research
3. Basic outline individual views of creativity (include in other box thinking)
4. Basic outline of organisational models of creativity
5. Factors that encourage or inhibit creativity as individuals
6. The special role of motivation
7. The role of progress in meaningful work
8. Factors that encourage or inhibit creativity within social settings (organisations)
9. The role of leaders
10. How to promote creative ideas within teams

I will need to include a couple of exercises, which will need to be placed somewhere

1. An exercise that demonstrates how a heirarchy screens out creativy ideas
2. An exercise to pull apart a creative innovation so people can see how innovations are made up if upstream pieces of innovation
3. An exercise in divergent thinking? Followed up by a focus on a creative problem.