Creativity in Business

Event details

The Big House and Uspcaler Breakthrough programmes welcome small and medium sized enterprises to join Fiona Duncan-Steer for a morning session on creativity in business. This event will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.

Themes in this workshop:

Mindset

Activate your imagination and get into the right mindset to allow for new possibilities - let those new ideas flow.

The Science of creativity

We delve into the stats and mechanisms of what is required for creativity to be present; including human learning styles, core traits and lateral thinking strategy. Rivers of thinking The notion of thinking differently and how we can re-train our brain to do just that using interactive exercises.
Idea generation tools & techniques I will share with you my famous five 'go to' tools for encouraging the generation of ideas. Useful resources + Interactive exercises throughout.

About the Facilitator

This workshop will be delivered by Fiona Duncan-Steer
Founder, RSViP Business Network + WREN Property Network Writer, speaker, trainer, qualified coach, Fiona has been running events for the best part of 15 years and has a creative background in theatre design. Fiona spends time writing her business columns, guest lecturing at universities, running skills training workshops around the subjects of business networking, events and marketing and sharing her story and knowledge through guest speaking at conferences and events. Down to earth and brilliantly connected, Fiona has become the go to person for East Midlands based businesses who want to attract their perfect customer and stand out from the crowd through creative thinking.

What is The Big House Programme?

The Big House offers fully-funded business support, mentoring, virtual and face-to-face workshops and networking, access to grants for creative and digital businesses in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Visit www.bighouse.org.uk for the complete details of the programme, and keep up-to-date with us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

As this event is part of a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) initiative, we will require you to be enrolled in The Big House Programme, prior to attending. If you are not already enrolled, you will find the appropriate form at: https://bighouse.org.uk/enrolment-forms.

NB: We will be documenting the event. If you do not wish to be included in images or videos that may be used later for marketing purposes, please let us know beforehand.

This project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014 - 2020.

Location details

Address:

Microsoft Teams

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