Creative Leadership in Global BusinessLaajuus (5 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

Participants will learn to connect with their powerful creative engine, which will provide them with a great source of original ideas, concepts, solutions, improvements, and new directions. Giving the stimulating and proactive focus of the course, students will experience intense moments of creativity during the sessions.

In addition to highly stimulating tools, the course will deal with the key psychological and behavioural aspects of creativity, for making it a sustainable way of generating ideas and personal/professional growth (not just an isolated moment of inspiration).

Further on, students will learn to identify, avoid and dissolve the main creativity killers in the business environment and other contexts. The course will as well provide with effective tools to connect with the rest of the organization, in order to start the conversion of the results of creativity into valuable innovations.

Upon completion, participants will have a very solid set of tools to activate, sustain and expand their creative forces, and to apply it to very relevant areas of personal and professional growth.

Sisältö

•Overview: The Creative Leader
•Awakening the Creative Genius:
o Ordinary Thinking vs. Creative Thinking: The Power of Thought
o Creativity Activation Tools
o Mental States of Creativity: Learning from Genius, Artists and Truly Exceptional People
•Living at your Creative Space:
o Tools for Idea Generation, Mental Stimulation, Solution to Complex Problems in Business and other Disciplines
o Sustaining the Momentum: Staying inside the Creative Flow
o Expanding your Creative Limits: Being Positively Unreasonable
•Avoiding Creativity Killers: The Visible and Invisible Barriers
•Landing in Reality:
o Applying Creativity to Business Innovations, Solutions and Improvements
o Connecting with the Rest of the Organization
•Cases and Lessons from Successful Creators

Esitietovaatimukset

BBA in business or economics or equal

Arviointikriteerit, tyydyttävä (1)

The general criteria of the competences that the Master's Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK's web pages (http://www.jamk.fi/english/forstudents/studyguid e). The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Assessment is based on knowledge, skills and competence in accordance with the National and European Qualifications Framework, level 7.

1 (Sufficient) - 2 (Satisfactory):The student understands the key concepts and tools covered by the course.
3(Good) - 4 (Very good):The student shows good knowledge of material and concepts and is able to communicate these in an effective way.
5 (Excellent): The student shows exceptional knowledge of subject material. The student demonstrates the ability to apply the material to real-life situations and challenges with superior communications skills.