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ACA 2010 workshops will take place
Tuesday afternoon from 2:00-6:00.
Workshop One: A Thinking Expedition - Exploring The Gap (Rolf Smith & Dan Himmerich)
$40 for conference attendees, $100 for the general public
Overview
A Thinking Expedition is a journey made for some express purpose to explore or investigate unknown regions to gain sight or knowledge of things previously unknown. This one will explore “The Gap” - the space between where we are and where we need to be. Wrapped around the framework of the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) model in a very different way, as a mid-conference institute it becomes the basecamp and mental jumping off point from which you can launch your own eXplorations during the ACA Conference itself. The Full-scale (3+days) operational version of Thinking Expeditions have been used to attack major issues and challenges and develop new business opportunities for companies such as ExxonMobil, Texaco, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, General Mills and the U.S. Military.
Participants will:
Discover and create ideas differently, use almost anything to continuously spark the excitement of adventure and expeditionary thinking in themselves.
Internalize the 7 Levels of Change, make mindshifts into the 7 Levels of Thinking, and the 7 Levels of Fear that hover behind them.
Use the power of the adventure and expedition metaphors, and will be poised to integrate a wide range of creativity tools, techniques, processes and psychometric instruments into their lives as a personalized, large-scale, complex CPS model.
Instructors
Colonel Rolf Smith spent 24 creative years with the Air Force & NATO. In 1986 he created the first military Office of Innovation and a worldwide network of Innovation Centers. From 1987-1992 he was a contract executive with Exxon’s Innovation Group, Rolf’s passions are his School for Innovators and Thinking Expeditions that explore complex problems and unusual business opportunities. Rolf has worked extensively with companies such as Texaco, EDS, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, DuPont and the U.S. military – and has served on the boards of the ACA and CEF. He is the author of The 7 Levels of Change.
Dan Himmerich is a vice president with the Financial Services Group of Computer Sciences Corporation. His responsibilities include developing business and technology strategies, working with CSC’s Leadership Development Program, and guiding employee and client workshops to tackle complex problems that require innovative solutions. Dan holds advanced certifications in MBTI®, and KAI© is a qualified CPS facilitator, and has authored several papers on the use of Temperament, Personality Type, and Creative Style in the development of high performing teams, and in managing for innovation. Dan’s work has been published by the Center for Creative Leadership, has been included in “The Future of Innovation”, and is referenced by successful authors in the field.
Workshop Two: Developing an Innovator’s Mindset --
A Self-Assessment and Catalyst for Personal Impact
(Dennis Stauffer)
$40 for conference attendees, $100 for the general public
Overview
Highly effective personal performance and leadership requires the ability to adapt and improvise, manage change, find creative solutions and meet novel challenges. Yet, most of us have received very little training in how to leverage these skills. In this interactive, personalized and revealing session, you will experience a new research-based self-assessment.
Think of it as a diagnostic utility for your personal operating system. As with a computer, this operating system functions in the background out of sight, yet it impacts how well someone’s personal “programs” perform. A clear understanding of a computer’s operating system is essential to keeping it running at optimum performance…and so it is with people.
We all hold mental models that we use to represent how the world works, often subconsciously and without fully understanding their implications. They are powerful drivers of our values and behaviors. This assessment enables us to identify these hidden mental models, making it a highly effective tool for personal, team and organizational development.
You will need to register in advance for this workshop, no later than March 9th.
Insight Fusion is offering this assessment (An $80 value) free to ACA attendees. You only pay the ACA workshop fee You will be sent a link to take this assessment online prior to the seminar. This only takes about 10 minutes, but it generates a 19 page personalized report that will be the basis for your personal exploration and skill-building.
Participants will:
Explore the surprising and powerful ways that our mental models affect us.
Gain new insights into your personal mindset and how it guides your actions, as an individual, team member and leader.
Discover strategies to boost your innovation capacity and that of your team and organization.
Learn how to achieve breakthrough results and reach a whole new level of personal effectiveness.
This seminar will be informal, interactive and engaging. Using a mix of lecture, discussion and illustrative exercises, you will explore powerful concepts, interpret your personal feedback and do action planning to give you solid and useful take-aways.
Instructor
Dennis Stauffer is an internationally acclaimed thought leader on the behaviors that drive innovation and personal effectiveness. He’s the founder of Insight Fusion, Inc., a speaking, training and consulting firm that works with businesses and public agencies to help individuals, teams and organizations boost their capacity to innovate and succeed.
Dennis is an Emmy award-winning journalist and former Business Editor. His most recent book, Thinking Clockwise, A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader received a 2006 Fresh Voices book award.
Workshop Three: Re-imaging the Workplace as a Playspace -- New Approaches for Innovating, Learning and Changing
(Pamela Meyer)
$60 for conference attendees, $100 for the general public (Dr. Meyer’s newly released book, From Workplace to Playspace is included in the fee)
Overview
In this interactive session we will explore a mindset shift from workplace to playspace, in which we reclaim play as a key dynamic of organizational success, and explore its implications for our shared responsibility to the spaces we create that facilitate innovating, learning and changing.
This workshop draws on the presenter and author’s fifteen years of experience and research on the spaces we co-create in everyday interactions and collaborations that enable all to engage at the top of their talent. When the mindset of workplace emphasizes the task, and its outcomes, an unfortunate dualism is implied between work and play. Work is purposeful, serious and efficient; play is purposeless, silly, and inefficient. In this mindset, work and play are incompatible, and many opportunities for innovating, learning and changing are lost.
Drawing on the metaphors and practices of improvisation, we will explore four core dimensions of playspace (Meyer, 2010) as space for:
People to play with new ideas and perspectives
Play new roles and develop new capacities
Play in the system
Improvised play
Join Pamela Meyer and other innovative colleagues to learn new approaches and practices for innovating, learning and changing.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the dimensions of playspace and why it is essential for organizational innovation, learning and positive change.
Learn specific exercises and practices to bring playspace to life for collaboration and learning.
Understand your role in creating playspace, and how to coach leaders, participants and other
stakeholders to support and sustain it.
HRCI certification credit is available for this session (see www.hrci.org).
Instructor
Pamela Meyer, Ph.D., speaks and consults internationally. She came to her passion for playspace through her years working with creative teams in the theater as a director and producer. She now uses the lessons she learned in rehearsal halls performance spaces, and research to work with organizations around the world that want to create playspace for innovating, learning, and changing through dynamic engagement. In addition to her consulting and speaking practice, Meyer teaches courses in business creativity, organizational change, and adult learning at DePaul University’s School for New Learning in Chicago, where she is a faculty fellow at both the Center to Advance Education for Adults and the Center for Creativity and Innovation. She holds a doctorate in human and organizational systems from Fielding Graduate University. Meyer is also the author of From Workplace to Playspace: Innovating, Learning and Changing Through Dynamic Engagement (Jossey-Bass, 2010) and Quantum Creativity: Nine Principles to Transform the Way You Work (McGraw/Contemporary, 2000). For more information, visit http://www.playspace.biz.
Do you want to see Pamela discuss her ideas? Check out http://www.youtube.com/PlayspaceLLC#p/a/u/0/1zESLoPPs8I.
For more information about the conference, click here.
QUESTIONS: Contact us at aca2010conference@amcreativityassoc.org.
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