Art Up Your Innovation Skills
Growing a business or organization requires innovation – bringing new ideas that add value to fruition.
Great design and innovation go beyond brainstorming and generating a lot of ideas. Let’s say you have a lot of ideas. They really only make a difference when you implement those that add value.
Making better decisions about what is or could be valuable requires you to break habitual patterns of thought to see more possibilities and new patterns. With conscious effort, you can break habitual patterns that prevent you from being innovative. With conscious effort, you can build an innovation habit, allowing you to continually see new patterns, make new connections and make better decisions – leading your organization to greater results.
Artists, whether they draw, paint, sculpt, write, dance or perform, utilize skills we all have and some we can learn. Artists are trained to see patterns and make connections. They combine a fluency and flexibility of thinking (divergence) with critical thinking (convergence) using criteria to make better decisions about which ideas to move forward.
Co-developed by ALCEMIS and artist Mary Bergs, Innovate Like An Artist™ is an experiential program where you will learn, practice and apply the skills that make an artist (and you!) innovative.
- Formulate better questions
- Identify patterns
- Think associatively
- Adopt new perspectives
- See, perceive and think differently
- Become friendly with ambiguity
- Develop resiliency
- Honor and use process
- Make better decisions
In Innovate Like an Artist, you will play with purpose to:
- Break habitual thought patterns that prevent you from seeing, developing and implementing valuable opportunities
- Release your creative potential to generate and develop more ideas
- Improve your ability to take thoughtful risks
- Deliver innovative solutions
Contact us to learn how to bring this experiential program to your organization and innovate like an artist.
