Because organizations must innovate to stay alive in today’s highly competitive marketplace, organizations need employees who can channel their creativity and innovation toward organizational challenges and goals. This certificate program will first help you become re-acquainted with your own stores of creativity and innovation. Next, you are given a set of tools that allow you to leverage your creativity to identify and solve organizational problems. One activity asks you how you might look at a problem from a different angle to produce a more creative result; others walk you through the process of using analogies or replacement techniques to invent creative solutions to problems.
Each self-paced course offers an assortment of interactive exercises, videos, selected readings, case studies, and self-assessments that will engage you and help you apply your newly discovered creativity in the workplace. Upon successful completion of all modules in this certificate program, you can download and print a Certificate of Completion.
Topics include Creativity in Teams and Organizations, Innovation in Teams and Organizations, Introduction to Critical Thinking, and Personal Creativity. On average, students complete the certification in 18 hours (average completion time, actual time may vary).
This course package includes:
- Innovation in Teams and Organizations module
- Creativity in Teams and Organizations module
- Introduction to Critical Thinking module
- Personal Creativity module
- 12 months of course access
- 1.8 CEUs, 18 HRCI Credits, 18 SHRM PDCs earned on completion
There are no prerequisites for this certification.
Upon completing these modules, you will be awarded Acuity Institute’s Creativity and Innovation Certification. Certification from Acuity Institute includes a Digital Badge. Acuity Institute has partnered with Credly’s Acclaim platform to provide this digital version of your certificate.