Summer is the perfect season to let your creativity flourish. With longer days and a more relaxed pace, it’s an ideal time to explore new ideas and unlock your creative potential. This summer, why not take advantage of your free access to LinkedIn Learning to explore courses focused on creativity? These courses can help you leverage your imagination and bring innovative ideas to life this summer!

Suggested Courses:

Develop Your Creativity as a Leader

Learn the importance of developing a creative mindset while building creative confidence in yourself and your teams. Ignite your creative spark by leveraging constraints and curiosity to boost creativity that results in enhanced problem-solving skills

Take a More Creative Approach to Problem-solving

Learn to better problem-solving skills by exploring insights from creative experts:

• John Cleese – Fostering creativity in groups
• Bob Kulhan – How to use improv’s “Yes, and” tool
• Dave Evan – How to iterate and the importance of experimentation
• Bill Burnett – Techniques for brainstorming like a designer
• Beth Comstock – Practical tools for evaluating and refining concepts

Curiosity Flywheels: How to Create Great Ideas

Discover the seven-step framework for idea generation and creative productivity and harness the power of the ‘flywheel’ effect.

How to Make Creative Thinking a Habit

Discover the importance of a foundation in wonder for bringing creative thinking into your workflow to enhance innovative idea generation. Learn to use restraints, rigor sprints and movement through practical exercises that fuel your imagination, wonder and generative creative thoughts.

The Five-Step Creative Process

Break down the creative process into five steps to learn insights on how to generate effective solutions by understanding the role of each step in the creative process. Instructor, Stefan Mumaw, guides you through a real-world project to demonstrate the complete creative process, so you can apply these steps to solve problems creatively.

Want to Learn More?

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