Creativity and Innovation SIG

INNOVATION in the PUGET SOUND TODAY:

A Panel Discussion on Current Practices

In a time of tremendous change and economic turbulence, there is no greater or more important need than to help our organizations become more innovative, to develop the capacity to come up with new solutions to today’s challenges.   Register Today!

Dick Brass, a former vice president at Redmond-based, global software giant Microsoft, recently issued a grim forecast about the company's future on the New York Times op-ed pages:

"... while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future."

In a time of tremendous change and economic turbulence, there is no greater or more important need than to help our organizations become more innovative, to develop the capacity to come up with new solutions to today’s challenges.  Register Now!

The Creativity and Innovation SIG  presents welcomes in 2010 with a 2 hour lab!

The importance of creativity and innovation continues to gain in recognition and importance. Among other indicators of this, National ASTD CEO Tony Bingham announced here in Seattle this past November that creative thinking and innovation had moved near the top of skill sets most in demand by CEOs.

Typically, the Creativity and Innovation SIG provides you with tools and techniques to help others reclaim and extend their creative potential -- and turn that potential into practical and profitable innovation. Once a year, through the Imaginative Trainer's Lab, we turn the spotlight on our own field. The Lab enables workplace learning and performance professionals to reclaim their creative potential. The result: innovative learning products!

This is one session you will not want to miss! 

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We all know that eating fish is a great way to nourish our brains. The Chapter's Creativity and Innovation SIG has an even better way to nourish the creative part of your brain (which is most of it): come hear Jim Bergquist, the creativity guru whose on-target consulting turned a struggling Seattle fish stall into the world-class entertainment venue known as Pike Place Fish Market. Jim will talk about his work with the market and share his current views on how to become more personally creative and help your organization become more innovative. You won't want to miss this exciting presentation. Join us Monday evening (doors open at 6:30 PM; the presentation begins at 7) at the Community Center at Mercer View. Register Now!