Programs for Teams
Spark
Creativity & Innovation
In today’s competitive, fast-paced market, organizations who know how to innovate quickly and effectively have a competitive advantage. SPARK empowers leaders to facilitate the process of innovation by promoting creative cultures while driving efficient execution.
SPARK
Program Includes
- 5 Experiential Workshops
- Gallup StrengthsFinder™ Assessment
- Psychological Safety Diagnostic
SPARK
Program Objectives
- Understand a framework for innovation that balances creativity and execution.
- Learn how to develop a team culture that supports innovation and creativity.
- Learn and apply a creative-problem solving process that your team can use to successfully innovate.
- Learn strategies to increase your personal and team creativity.
SPARK
The Workshops
SPARK WORKSHOP
Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Connect authentically and build trust through applied improvisational games that support agility, spontaneity, and creativity.
- Learn how to apply Ziksana’s Appreciative Listening Tool to develop a more open and inclusive culture.
- Learn the difference between open and closed-ended questions and identify specific situations where they can be most effectively applied.
Learn more about appreciative listening.
SPARK WORKSHOP
Psychological Safety
- Experience improvisational games and activities that illustrate what it takes to build a psychologically safe environment where innovation is possible.
- Learn how to use a diagnostic tool to assess their team’s current level of psychological safety.
- Identify specific areas for improvement and actionable steps to increase levels of psychological safety.
Learn more about psychological safety.
SPARK WORKSHOP
Strengths-Based Innovation
- Use Gallup StrengthsFinder™ to understand their own strengths and how they can best contribute to the process of innovation.
- Understand their teammates’ strengths and where they fit best in the innovative process.
- Experience a game simulation that demonstrates how strengths-based teams can assign the right responsibilities based on individuals’ strengths profiles.
- Receive a team strengths map that highlights gaps and informs more effective ways to collaboratively innovate.
Learn more about strengths-based leadership.
SPARK WORKSHOP
Play Preferences & Creativity
- Learn their personal play preferences and identify specific activities to unlock their creativity.
- Understand how to engage with their play preferences on a daily basis to enhance creativity.
- Learn about other people’s play preferences and how to build a team culture that encourages and supports personal creativity.
Learn more about how to make work feel like play.
SPARK WORKSHOP
Creative Problem- Solving Lab
- Learn to reframe challenge(s), gather divergent ideas, and set criteria to choose the best ideas and solutions.
- Experience play-based techniques and games to unlock the group’s creativity and facilitate innovation.
- Apply a straightforward process inspired by Design Thinking to team challenges in order to get novel solutions.
Learn more about problem solving in the workplace.
- Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Psychological Safety
- Strengths-Based Innovation
- Play Preferences & Creativity
- Creative Problem-Solving Lab
- Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
SPARK WORKSHOP
Appreciative Listening & Asking Questions
- Connect authentically and build trust through applied improvisational games that support agility, spontaneity, and creativity.
- Learn how to apply Ziksana’s Appreciative Listening Tool to develop a more open and inclusive culture.
- Learn the difference between open and closed-ended questions and identify specific situations where they can be most effectively applied.
Learn more about appreciative listening.
- Psychological Safety
SPARK WORKSHOP
Psychological Safety
- Experience improvisational games and activities that illustrate what it takes to build a psychologically safe environment where innovation is possible.
- Learn how to use a diagnostic tool to assess their team’s current level of psychological safety.
- Identify specific areas for improvement and actionable steps to increase levels of psychological safety.
Learn more about psychological safety.
- Strengths-Based Innovation
SPARK WORKSHOP
Strengths-Based Innovation
- Use Gallup StrengthsFinder™ to understand their own strengths and how they can best contribute to the process of innovation.
- Understand their teammates’ strengths and where they fit best in the innovative process.
- Experience a game simulation that demonstrates how strengths-based teams can assign the right responsibilities based on individuals’ strengths profiles.
- Receive a team strengths map that highlights gaps and informs more effective ways to collaboratively innovate.
Learn more about strengths-based leadership.
- Play Preferences & Creativity
SPARK WORKSHOP
Play Preferences & Creativity
- Learn their personal play preferences and identify specific activities to unlock their creativity.
- Understand how to engage with their play preferences on a daily basis to enhance creativity.
- Learn about other people’s play preferences and how to build a team culture that encourages and supports personal creativity.
Learn more about how to make work feel like play.
- Creative Problem-Solving Lab
SPARK WORKSHOP
Creative Problem- Solving Lab
- Learn to reframe challenge(s), gather divergent ideas, and set criteria to choose the best ideas and solutions.
- Experience play-based techniques and games to unlock the group’s creativity and facilitate innovation.
- Apply a straightforward process inspired by Design Thinking to team challenges in order to get novel solutions.
Learn more about problem solving in the workplace.
SPARK
Program Success Story
Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) – private non-profit organization, Executive Leaders and Managers from various organizations (25 team members)
KFAS wanted to support the private sector in Kuwait to develop organizational cultures that promote innovation.
Ziksana designed and delivered the SPARK program in a 3-day, in person format for 25 Executive Leaders and Managers in Kuwait. This manager training program taught leaders learned essential skills like listening, building strengths-based teams, creating psychological safety, and creative problem solving to build more innovative cultures and support others to create novel solutions. This program also included an application workshop where leaders created action plans to apply their learning from the program to their organizations.
Leaders reported that their knowledge of how to create an innovative work culture increased by over 20% as a result of attending the program, and 100% agreed that the program would have a positive impact on their work environment.
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If you can’t commit to a full program, we also offer our workshops in single, ‘a-la-carte’ sessions, tailored to your needs.
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