
American Creativity Association 2007 International Conference
Conference
Presentations and Presenters
2007 ACA
International Conference
March 21 - 23, 2007
with pre-Conference Institutes - March 20, 2007
in Austin, Texas
S.P.R.E.A.D.ng Creative Thinking from the Front
or Back Door to the Executive Floor
Robert Alan Black
Cconsultant
Cre8ng People, Places & Possiblities
PO Box 5805
Athens, GA 30604
706 353-3387
706 353-3387 Fax
alan@cre8ng.com
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D. is a Creative Thinking Consultant and his company is Cre8ng People, Places & Possibilities. When not traveling the world, Alan calls Athens, Georgia home. As a consultant, speaker and author, he helps people expand and enrich their natural creative abilities. Alan uses his 47 years of daily creative work experience at 47 different jobs in eight fields, lasting from one day to 22+ years, along with his formal education in creativity, design, architecture, counseling and educational psychology to provide: examples, skills, tools and techniques to everyone in his groups and audiences. He also has been voted “Employee of the Month” 272 months in a row. He sees life, as a creative journey, not a guided tour.
S.P.R.E.A.D.ng Creative Thinking from the Front
or Back Door to the Executive Floor
In 1950 J. P. Guilford challenged the psychological profession
to research creativity. In 1954 Alex Osborn and Sidney
J. Parnes began to show leaders and managers how to introduce
creativity into their workplaces. Since 1976 I have
worked individually and in virtual groups striving to help
leaders and managers S.P.R.E.A.D. creative thinking systematically
throughout their entire organizations in ALL employees. Most
business schools and business magazines write about creativity
and innovation but is it really being supported, promotoed,
recognized, encourgage, applied and developed in our workplaces?
Through this presentation learn how to create such a workable
plan you can begin to use next week.
Objectives:
- overview of corporate creativity development programs
- exposure to a basic system for developing creative thinking
throughout an organization
- opportunity to begin creating an organizational creative
thinking development program
- Intermediate knowledge of topic
Experiential/ Hands-On
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