Developing Your and Your Team's Creativity And Innovation Skills
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Speaker: Christopher R. DeVany
Speaker Designation: President and CEO at Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide
Creativity and innovation are the key drivers of success for many of today’s leading companies. Some of the most dramatic gains in shareholder value over the last few years (e.g. Google and Apple) have been created by the culture of creative innovation. Indeed, a culture of creativity and innovation is commonly recognized as the only sustainable competitive advantage.
This course will focus on developing new ways of thinking and will discuss in depth the intricacies of innovation, customer experience, solution development, and the problems faced by managers in this area.
Learn how to inspire your team to open their minds and unlock creativity to achieve the best results.
Participants will gain valuable insights and actionable tips to foster a creative mindset, cultivate innovation within their teams, and effectively implement innovative ideas in their organizations. By developing these critical skills, participants will be better equipped to adapt to changing market dynamics, solve complex problems, and drive long-term success.
In an ever-evolving and competitive business landscape, creativity and innovation have become vital skills for individuals and teams to stay ahead and thrive.
• Are you interested in stimulating your and your team’s creativity and innovation effectiveness?
• Could you use a ‘creativity and innovation refresher”, to help you get a better handle on things?
• Would you like to brush up on your skills at practicing and fostering creativity and innovation, so you can improve your and your team’s results?
If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen, and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions, and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our effectiveness at fostering creativity and innovation, accelerating our team members and team’s performance, adding to the bottom-line!
• Stimulating creativity in yourself and others
• Learning the impact of innovation on growth creation
• Understanding innovation concepts and methodologies
• Applying creative thinking to real-world business situations
• Learning how to build and lead an innovative team
• CEO
• Senior Vice President
• Vice President
• Executive Director
• Managing Director
• Regional Vice President
• Area Supervisor
• Manager
Chris DeVany is the Founder and President of Pinnacle Performance Improvement Worldwide, a firm which focuses on management and organization development. Pinnacle’s clients include government agencies from the United States, the Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Canada, Cayman Islands, global organizations such as Visa International, Cadence Design Systems, Coca Cola, Sprint, Microsoft, Aviva Insurance, Schlumberger and over 500 other organizations in 22 countries.
He has published numerous articles in the fields of surviving mergers and acquisitions, surviving change, project management, management, sales, team-building, leadership, ethics, customer service, diversity and work-life balance, in publications ranging from ASTD/Performance In Practice to Customer Service Management. His book, “90 Days to a High-Performance Team”, has been published by McGraw Hill, and is helping thousands of executives, managers and team leaders improve performance.
He has appeared hundreds of times on radio and television interview programs to discuss mergers and acquisitions (how to manage and survive them), project management, sales, customer service, effective workplace communication, management, handling rapid personal and organizational change and other topical business issues. He has served or is currently serving as a board member of the International Association of Facilitators, Sales and Marketing Executives International, American Management Association, American Society of Training and Development, Institute of Management Consultants, American Society of Association Executives, Meeting Professionals International and National Speakers Association. Chris is an award-winning Toastmaster’s International Competition speaker. He recently participated in the Fortune 500 Annual Management Forum as a speaker, panelist and seminar leader.
Chris has distinguished himself professionally by serving multiple corporations as manager and trainer of sales, operations, project management, IT, customer service and marketing professionals. Included among those business leaders are Prudential Insurance, Sprint, BayBank (now part of Bank of America), US Health Care and Marriott Corporation. He has assisted these organizations in mergers and acquisitions, facilitating post-merger and acquisition integration, developing project management, sales, customer service and marketing strategies, organizing inbound and outbound call center programs, training and development of management and new hires, and fostering corporate growth through creative change and innovation initiatives.
Chris holds degrees in management studies and organizational behavior from Boston University. He has traveled to 22 countries and 47 states in the course of his career.
