Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 9, 2013

This workshop will teach you how to find unique perspectives, think more creatively, enhance your creative expression, and help you manifest positive change for yourself and for your career and company. Creative thinking is a critical skill required by all people within their roles at work. Thinking Differently.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 12, 2013

Hire Mike of Create-Learning to Think Differently & Enable Innovation within your company and team. MindSpin: Team Building Activity for Brainstorming and Solution-Finding. 1.716.629.3678. Thinking Differently – Enabling Innovation from Michael Cardus. You can read more about the workshop in the description below.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 26, 2012

Blocks to Creativity and Innovation. Tools to Release Creativity and Innovation from Michael Cardus. When you face a challenge , and have to solve a problem you need to figure out how to fix-it. Fix-it in a way improves upon what already exists and can prove useful to people besides yourself – that is how I define Innovation.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 28, 2011

Creativity to Innovation. Presentation from a workshop Creativity To Innovation ; Outcomes of Create-Learning Innovation Programs: Develop a culture of innovation that engages team member creativity and energy. To effectively transfer your creative ideas into innovative solutions. Contact Mike.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 16, 2012

The image below is from my Creativity to Innovation Workshop & Consulting. We all have problems , every team has problems, every organization has problems I have yet to meet a manager yet who doesn’t have problems…. The two teams met and both shared results. How to have discussions to lead others to think differently.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Dimension Time Cost Operator (DTC) – A TRIZ tool for for seeing problems differently exploring ideas of extremes in size, time and cost. Could your team benefit from discovering and planning solutions while proactively working to increase efficiencies and profit? Contact Mike … to make your team better.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 10, 2011

Nine windows is often used in TRIZ (The theory of inventive problem solving) to explore solutions to a problem in a context of past present and future. Nine-Windows in human system i.e. team building & leadership, can be used as a planning tool. Contact Mike … to make your team better. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

I have found that it is easier and people on the team move with greater enthusiasm and collaboration when you ‘Start With What’ and determine the solution in the first step. Do you find the ‘5 Whys’ to be useful with your team? What do you think? How much time is spent determining what the solution-is as opposed to what the problem-is?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. With this team we used it to explore the challenge of Developing a Managerial Leadership Process.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 19, 2013

A highly interactive skills course transferring creative ideas into innovative practices. Organizations that wish to remain competitive in the business environment must develop their capacity to generate creative ideas and then use their talent well to transfer these ideas into innovative practices. April 23 – May 21, 2013 ?

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 21, 2013

DTC operator continues to be one of my favorites for working with teams that feel stuck or just cannot move out of their own way to explore the system and problem in a different way. Could your team benefit from discovering and planning solutions while proactively working to increase efficiencies and profit?

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 22, 2011

When brought into a team, a team construct is developed. The team creates a systems of practices, prejudices, experiences and beliefs ; that are reinforced through time and experience with your-self and the team.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 18, 2012

Much of my work with Innovation stems from organizations, teams, as well as individuals taking what they already know and allowing themselves to make small adjustments towards new and improved products, processes and services. Are there any other departments, teams, locations that are using these resources differently?

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Contact us and make your team and leadership better. For 21st Century Learners innovation MUST align with our quality – Being what we do, and what is expected from us. Interested in Mike being a speaker at your next meeting, event or conference? michael cardus is create-learning.

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QAspire

MAY 31, 2015

Don’t forget traditional problem solving tools –5Why, TRIZ, etc & go beyond. It is the leadership teams role. Critical thinking and creative problem solving are intricately linked – drivers of innovation. – Tanmay Vora. Build a “love for solving problems” – Rajesh Lele. Managers as coaches.

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