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Now Go Create
Hello. Are you looking to improve your creative capabilities and ability to innovate? Well, then you’re in the right place. Now, more than ever, the world needs creative thinkers, and as a result we have innovation and creativity courses to suit everyone from the leadership team to the intern, and increase your capabilities.
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS
The top 10 skills for the future of jobs, right now, according to the World Economic Forum are:
- Complex Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
We can help you to future-proof your business and upskill your people.
Firstly, because we are a crack team of creative training and leadership experts with world-class credentials. Secondly we’ve trained 1,000’s of people to equip them with a creative toolkit. And thirdly, we’ve lived and breathed creativity in the real world, underpinned by our academic chops.
Whether you have the word ‘creative’ in your job title, are an apprentice or the CEO, our creative training workshops cover everything from tackling the blank page to selling your ideas. These include how to devise a creative strategy, our best-seller How To Become a Creative Ninja with tools and techniques, and presenting and communicating your ideas with How to Become A Pitch Ninja.
We deliver these via webinars, virtual classroom experiences, e-learning and bespoke programmes.
Since 2011 over 15,000 people have upskilled themselves in creative thinking and problem-solving techniques. This includes companies including Facebook, Disney, ASOS, Sky Media, HP, 02, Heineken, itsu, Prêt a Manger, White Stuff, WWF, TripAdvisor and Save The Children, to namedrop a few! Read a client case study here.
We support creative leaders in their drive to build a culture of innovation and lead their to teams to high creative performance via one day and residential creative leadership programmes
ONLINE PROBLEM SOLVING LEARNING OPTIONS
We have adapted many of our most popular courses to offer online options. Please do give us a shout to join one of our webinars, virtual classroom sessions, open online training sessions and our new e-learning programme which will start in Spring 2021 – stand alone courses for any device, at your own pace.
Contact us for more details and check out our online learning options for creative thinking, strategy training and storytelling here.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
We have unrivalled experience working with the creative industries and have worked with companies including 100’s of leading PR, design, creative, research and insight agencies. We have close ties with the Centre For Creative Studies at the Cass Business School. It was here that Founder and Chief Spark Claire studied for her MSc in creativity, innovation and leadership. She wrote a book as part of her studies and is proud to be one of less than 100 people globally to hold this degree and to be on the advisory board at the university.
Our team includes leadership experts, strategists and insight specialists, coaches, innovation experts, journalists and professional storytellers, playwrights and stand-up comedians. This diverse creative talent brings different perspectives to our training, making it fun, interactive and sticky!
Get in touch now to find out how we can help your business up the ante with creative training and leadership development or use the course finder tool below to help you.
Who We Work With
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Working With Us
We understand the business case for creativity – after all our team have lived and breathed it at the corporate sharp-end working for agencies and brands for decades. Our Founder Claire is one of a handful of people in the world to hold an MSc Innovation, Creativity & Leadership.
GIVE YOUR PEOPLE THE PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOLS THEY NEED
We pride ourselves on the immediate impact and application of our creative thinking and problem solving training. People tell us that our creativity courses are highly relevant to their day-to-day work. Find out what they say about us here.
UPSKILL AN ARMY OF TRAINED CREATIVITY FACILITATORS
We have trained armies of brainstorm facilitators in the skills they need to help generate and nurture ideas from other people. We share creative techniques and processes, and explore the behaviours and mindsets that differentiate high performing creative teams and we apply academic thinking and rigour. Never run an ineffective brainstorm again!
BUILD A CREATIVE CULTURE
If you’re want help to develop a more creative culture in your organisation and enhance your leadership team’s creative capabilities we can help you to navigate. Creativity is most definitely a leadership issue – the charge for creativity and innovation must come from those at the top or it will fail. Find out about our Creative Leadership residential course running this autumn.
FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BUSINESS
The top 10 skills for the future of jobs, right now, according to the World Economic Forum are:
- Complex Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Creativity
We can help you to future-proof your business and upskill your people.
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Credibility
We live and breathe creativity and have had to develop creative campaigns throughout our own careers. We know what works, and what doesn't, and how to mix theory and practice to up-skill your people quickly.
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Experience
Over 15,000 people trained by our team with 1,000s of training hours under our collective belts, as well as hours at the creative coal face in 'real' jobs. Claire’s 20 years of creative practice is shared in her book ‘In Your Creative Element’, featuring on Amazon's top 10 lists!
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Stable of Creatives
A core team that includes an ex-WPP MD and Creative Director, board level planner and strategist, creative practitioners, a screenwriter and performer, improv comedians and journalists, with expertise across a vast range of brand and in-house teams.
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Our Affiliations
Our team collaborate with an unparalleled range of highly credible and influential organisations in the field of creativity in the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Creative Review Magazine, Cass Business School, The Holmes Report and the PRCA. Our e-learning is CIPD accredited.
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Our Philosophy
We believe in creative democracy. It is not the purview of just those with 'creative' in their job titles. We can help anyone, whatever their job title, age or industry to unleash their innate creativity. Our training reflects current L&D trends with immersive experiences, e-learning and bite-size workshops.
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Trusted by Brands
We're lucky enough to have worked with household names including Sky Media, Confused.com, HSBC, The National Trust, Pret A Manger, 02 and 100's of digital, PR & social agencies.
Explore Our Courses
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- Who's It For?
- Anyone who wants to improve their creative thinking skills and develop a toolkit of ways to explore problems.
- How Long For?
- Half or full day with e-learning options
- Future-proof your business
- Creative thinking, problem-solving & critical thinking are the top 3 skills for business
- By The End
- Learn and practice creative tools and 'I need an idea right now”, to ways to crack a creative challenge in an hour, 48 hours, a week or more.
- Public workshop dates ONLINE
- June & July dates 2020 - please enquire
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- Who is it for?
- Anyone who has to regularly pitch, present or sell their ideas
- How long?
- From 1-3 days or bite-size chunks
- By the end
- Unflappable, unstoppable & unbeatable!
- Online options
- 90 minute workshop with Max
- Open training online
- 28th May 2020
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- Who's It For?
- Anyone who wants to harness the power of storytelling for business, pitches, presentations, keynotes & selling
- How Long For?
- 90-minute workshop online during Covid, half or full day face to face
- By The End
- Understand the different sorts of stories you can tell in business, and when you need them, with lots of practice!
- Next open training
- 7th August 2020 10:00am
