Sample Programs to Foster Creativity, Innovation & Fun at Work!   - "BRILLiant!"

7 people dressed up for murder mystery

AOL participants in Murder Mystery team-building event July 2006

IBM’s landmark Global CEO Study surveyed over 1500 organizational leaders from around the world. These leaders concluded that in this global environment that is changing at break-next speed and becoming exponentially complex, creative thinking is the most necessary ability for successful leaders to possess. 3,600 "next-gen" business students concurred.

So, how do leaders foster creative thinking in themselves and within their organizations and imagine “outside of the box”?* – You’ve come to the right place….

When it comes to “out-of-the-box” thinking, Riding the Wave’s principal training designer and facilitator, Veronica Adams, has been heard to say, “What box?!?” Some of the programs below indicate some of our approaches. We’re happy to work with clients to tailor our programs for their groups.

* Otherwise known as “coffins” (i.e. dead-end approaches).

Creating a Workplace that Innovates! (Also known as “Marrying Merriment, Mirth, Mission & Moneymaking!")

Creativity and innovation can’t come from formulas from bottles.  They won’t take organizations very far if boiled down to exercises pulled out for staff retreats, or siloed in “creative-types” departments. 

Continual innovation can only flourish in environments that openly encourage experimentation and allow employees to feel safe to fully apply their critical thinking abilities and engage their imaginations to propose new ideas for processes, services, and products. 
-- It’s a culture thing.  And don’t take our word for it: According to IBM’s landmark 2010 Global CEO study, the leaders who’ve been most successful over the last five years in this exponentially morphing and complex world, know this first hand.

As many employees of Southwest Airlines, Google, and other cutting edge companies will be the first to tell you, having fun at work bears multiple dividends.  Studies have shown that when a task is considered “play” versus “work,” workers perform with more enthusiasm, energy, and achieve better results on the tasks considered play. 

Workshop participants will explore and take away ideas for the many ways that managers and teams can foster a spirit of fun that transforms their work environments into innovative idea factories that guide their organizations towards success!

Presentations as Performance Art:
Bringing More Creativity into Your In-house Seminars

Sister Mary

Many professionals find themselves challenged to prepare effective presentations as a means of sharing information with their colleagues in the workplace.

If you and others are tired of suffering through yet another (yawn!) PowerPoint presentation, learn how to create new ways of getting your points across in a truly memorable and effective fashion that will both engage and inform your audience, using interactive skits, game-shows, role-playing, and more.  You’ll have fun doing it, and your participants will thank you for it! 

Modeling more creativity in your in-house training will have the added benefit of helping to foster the spirit of creativity in your organization that leads to greater innovation!




Games Galore for the Workplace Retreats & Teambuilding:

Murder Mystery Dinner Party & Life's Quest: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt!

Let us help you to run a murder mystery (volunteer staff members get to play the suspects!).  Or we can work with you to design a custom scavenger/treasure hunt.

These are great team-building exercises that your staff will talk about for months to come, and heck - they're just plain fun!!

… Lions and Tigers and Bears — Oh My!

Love the Wave You're With!Veronica with Surfboard


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