What You'll Learn
This Applied Creative Thinking and Problem Solving microcredential provides critically important management skills for leaders across industries. Business, educational, and governmental leaders have identified creativity and complex problem solving as crucial twenty-first-century skills.
A World Leader in Creativity
Leveraging 50 years as a world leader in teaching applied creative-thinking skills, this microcredential provides you with the cognitive and affective skills proven to enhance your professional and personal success. You will develop skills in diagnosing problems and using contextual and tactical thinking strategies. Your decision making will be elevated, and you will master techniques that result in creative, visionary solutions to complex problems.
Your Next Steps
Work in small groups will teach you strategies for sharing the techniques you have learned with your team. Successful completion of this microcredential prepares you for continued study at the graduate level, and provides existing business and organizational leaders with the specialized skills needed to advance organizational goals and solve critical challenges. This microcredential can also be appropriate for middle managers seeking to move into executive leadership roles.
Course Requirements
- CRS 559 Principles in Creative Problem Solving
- CRS 610/EDL 683 Facilitation of Group Problem Solving
- CRS 614 Advanced Cognitive Tools for Creative Problem Solving
Skills Covered
- Change Leadership
- Strategic Management
- Diagnostic Ability
- Contextual Thinking
- Tactical Thinking
- Quality Improvement
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving Models
- Creativity
- Visionary Strategy
This Microcredential is Stackable
Credits earned in the completion of this microcredential can be applied toward completion of a related certificate or degree program. It is a building block that gives you a jump start to education and career success.
- Creativity and Change Leadership Advanced Certificate
- Creativity and Change Leadership Advanced Certificate MS
- MS/MA in Multidisciplinary Studies
Contact Us
Kristin Fields
Director of Continuing Education
(716) 878-5226