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Now Go Create
Hello. Looking to improve your creative capabilities and ability to innovate? Then you’re in the right place. Now more than ever the world needs creative thinkers. We have adapted many of our most popular courses to offer online options, so please do get in touch to join one of our webinars, open training sessions and our new online courses starting soon. We’re adapting as fast as we can to this new reality and exploring how we offer great learning experiences and events online, in the same way we have built our business offline to date. So please bear with us!
Most of our courses are available online during Covid19 – we are adapting our content to make it accessible and engaging in shorter sessions (up to 90 minutes) and some blended learning options. Contact us for more details.
We’re a crack team of creative training and leadership experts with world-class credentials in the fields of creative leadership, brainstorm and creative training, coaching, creative thinking and brainstorm facilitation.
Whether you are an apprentice or the CEO, our creative training workshops cover everything from tackling the blank page to selling your ideas. They 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 also run different e-learning creativity course options where we share our favourite resources, tools and inspiration. This can be via a month-long Creative Challenge and regular webinars.
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.
Since 2011 15,000 people have upskilled themselves in creative thinking and problem-solving techniques including companies including Facebook, Disney, Vodafone, ASOS, Sky Media, HP, 02, Heineken, itsu, Prêt a Manger, Sony, White Stuff, Beam Global, Unicef, TripAdvisor and Save The Children, to namedrop a few! Read client case study here.
We have unrivalled experience working with the creative industries and work with companies including 100’s of leading PR, design, creative, research and insight agencies. We also have close ties with the Centre For Creative Studies at the Cass Business School where Founder and Chief Spark Claire studied for her MSc in creativity, innovation and leadership. She 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 – all bringing a different perspective to the creative process whatever your business needs.
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.
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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 WPP and global brands. Our Founder Claire has an MSc Innovation, Creativity & Leadership, one of a handful of people in the world to study creativity at this high academic level.
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.
We have trained armies of brainstorm facilitators in the skills they need to help generate and nurture ideas from other people. We are also trained in problem-solving assessment tool called The View which offers great personal insights into how you are creative. 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.
If you’re looking for help to develop a more creative culture in your organisation or enhance your leadership team’s creative capabilities and know-how then you’re in the right place. 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.
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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 many more. Agency-side we count many WPP agencies as clients, as well as leading independent PR 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
- 28th May 2020 10:30am
