SOWING CREATIVITY,
REAPING INNOVATION
Organizations today
realize that creativity is critical to achieving and sustainng a leadership
position in the marketplace. Specifically, innovation enables the improvements
and breakthroughs that delight customers and incorporate new products and
services never before imagined. Yet most organizations lack the tools, the
processes, and the organizational alignment necessary to support innovation.
To foster the
generation and implementation of new ideas, individuals and teams must learn to
use new tools to leverage their creative abilities and an effective creativity
process to translate new ideas into
productive solutions. Finally, the organization must install systems to remove
barriers and create a culture that supports innovation.
By understanding the
dimensions of creativity – Creativity Styles, Creativity Tools and Practices,
The Creative Path, Taking Initiative, and Strategic Creativity Management –
organizations can improve how they advance their market position.
Am I creative?
What is creativity
Neuro-physiological
basis
Why is creativity
important?
A step by step process
for generating and implementing innovative solutions
Specify a challenge
Apply the steps of the
Creative Path to a real life issue chosen by the participants
My preferred approach
or style of creativity
Practice each of the
styles
How do I create?
What conditions affect
my creative performance and the one of others?
The Ten Commandments
of Innovating
What’s my roadblock to
creativity and the one of others?
Questions to Stimulate
a Climate of Innovation
·
Know the
environment that makes you and others most creative
·
Become
aware of the biggest roadblock to your creativity
·
Knowing’s
one’s primary creativity style and practice using all four creativity style
·
The
ability to use innovation tools to generate ideas
·
Actual
practice and progress toward an innovative solution to an issue
Sylvie is a seasoned international trainer, facilitator, consultant,
speaker and teacher. She is president of CFI Syllab Inc. Its mission if to
facilitate the creative process.
Prior to her consulting career, Ms. Labelle worked for more than 10
years in the financial services industry where she mainly linked the business
needs of the financial institutions to the technology as a strategic tool.
Since 1992, she did many interventions in training, public
communication, organizational development and strategic planning. She is a
consultant in personal and organisational change.
She was assistant director at the Dobson Lagassé Centre for
Entrepreneurship at Bishop’s University where she teached Entrepreneurship and
Small Business Management. She also teached Human Performance Technology at Montréal
University at the graduate level and Leadership and its practice at HÉC.
She now consults at the Canadian Center for Management Development,
where she helps redesign the Management Training Program (courses, assignments,
technology, etc.).
In training, her expertise goes from needs assessment to evaluation,
crossing the path of course design and delivery. She does executive coaching
and uses instruments like 360o and questionnaires.
In course design and/or delivery, she works in creativity, innovation,
leadership, conflict resolution, entrepreneurship, human performance
technology, coaching, interpersonal communication, team-building, change management, stress
management, humor, motivation, performance appraisal, productivity through
value-based time management, project management,men-women relationships,
multiculturalism, etc.
She has a diversified clientele: Private corporations (Pharmaprix, Bank
of Montreal, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lévesque Beaubien Geoffrion, Eaton, Bell
Canada, Bombardier, Spar/Aerospace, Caron, Bélanger, Ernst & Young, Royal
Trust, Centre Immobilier du Mont-Tremblant, QUNO, etc.), hospitals,
"centre d'accueil", public enterprises (CCMD, Development Bank of
Canada, CN, CIDA, DND, Sûreté du Québec) and professional associations.
Sylvie is certified by Franklin Quest in Time Management and Project
Management.
She is certified in the Human Synergistics Integrated Technologies.
She also is an associate for Can*Speak.
She has a diversified clientele: Private corporations (Bank of Montreal,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lévesque Beaubien Geoffrion, QUNO, etc.), hospitals,
"centre d'accueil", public enterprises (Development Bank of Canada,
CN, CIDA, DND, Sûreté du Québec) and professional associations. Her
interventions also covers specific angles like men-women relationships and
multiculturalism.
In the field of creativity, her clients are : Canadian Center for Management Development, Alcan, Middle-Managers of the Canadian Public Service, CSST, Reader’s Digest, Shell Canada, Mouvement Québécois de la Qualité, Hydro-Québec, ACSEE, Dominion Textile, LGS, Banque Nationale, Public Works Canada, Corporation Cineplex Odeon, Bank of Montreal, Scotia Bank, Aetne, Noranda, QUNO, CIDA, IREQ, IMS Canada Lts, Coop Plus, Bristol-Myers Squibb,etc.
She designs and facilitates customized programs : creativity for women entrepreneurs, business creativity, creativity for communicators,etc.
Sylvie is certified by Edward de Bono to teaching and facilitating the
Six Thinking Hats.This program of thought management makes it possible to
capture the full power of parallel thinking and thus explore new
problem-solving methods and discover new opportunities.
She is also certified by Edward de Bono to teaching and facilitating
Lateral Thinking, which are structured and systematic tools covering all
aspects of the creative thinking process.
She received a scholarship from the Center for Creative Leadership for its Leading Creatively program.
She was a leader at the Creative-Problem Solving Institue in Buffalo (N.Y). She is a member of the Board of theCanadian Creativity Network.
Sylvie Labelle is a regular member of the M.B.A. Association of Quebec,
the Montreal’s Trainers Group and of the International Society for Performance
and Instruction.
She has an undergraduate degree from McGill University in Business and
Industrial Trainer Development and is currently finishing her Ph.D. in
educational technology at Montreal University in creative leadership.