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Algarvia 2022

Brussels Imagination Club

Achieve Business Goals Through Creativity

Learn how to use anticonventional thinking (ACT) and other creative techniques to develop, test and implement ground-breaking ideas that enable your business to innovate more profitably.

Hi there!

Would you like to learn how you can effectively use creativity and collaboration to achieve business goals of all kinds? If so, perhaps I can help you!

Over the past decade, I have been helping companies and government bodies use creativity to be more innovative. I have helped teams develop new product ideas, new ways of packaging existing products and ways to revive mature products. I have helped government bodies come up with plans to revive sagging economic regions and promote new initiatives. I have helped European projects develop creative ways to achieve international goals

Over the past two years, I have developed a new approach to creative thinking, anticonventional thinking (ACT) which is modelled after the way artists, writers and composers collaborate on creative projects and takes into account the fundamental weaknesses of brainstorming (if you've ever wondered why your brainstorms result in a lot of mediocre ideas and little action -- don't worry, the problem is not in you, it is in the process).

These days, in addition to writing, I hold a few ACT workshops and talks. Recently, I've done workshops and talks with Genentech, TE, Afton Chemicals, Philip Morris International, the government of Dubai, the Algarve Region in Portugal, Apgico and others.

Here are my main workshop models. If you have something else in mind, let me know. I may be able to help!

-- Jeffrey Baumgartner

Creative Ideas Workshops

These workshops introduce ACT or use ACT to enable you and your team to generate creative ideas to achieve business goals.

• Introduction to Anticonventional Thinking (ACT) ACT is a simple, powerful and effective alternative to brainstorming. It's great for new product and service ideas; designing new project concepts; designing government initiatives and more. Unlike most creativity methods, an ACT session does not leave you with lots of mediocre ideas. Rather, it leaves you with a big idea and an action plan -- so you can get started on implementing the idea immediately! Learn more...

• Turn Disruptive Innovation into Business Opportunity. What if a disruptive innovation destroyed your business model overnight? Would you be able to cope? If not, check out this workshop where you'll learn how to use creativity to turn disruptive innovation into business opportunity! You might even devise your own ideas for disruptive ideas that will scare the heck out of your competitors! Learn more...

• Facilitated ACT Session. Do you have a specific business goal you wish to achieve or a problem that you wish to solve through creativity? Are you frustrated by creativity techniques and tools that fail to generate truly creative ideas? If so, let me facilitate a custom designed ACT session that will enable you to understand your goal better and then develop a big creative idea that will get you to that goal. We'll conclude the workshop by drawing up an action plan to make sure the idea happens. Learn more...

Creative Innovation

Innovation is about implementing creative ideas in order to generate value. Creativity without implementation is useless as far as innovation goes. These workshops use creative thinking to help you innovate better.

• Implementation Strategy. How easy is it to implement creative ideas in your organisation? If your business is like most today, ideas are easy. Making them happen is a lot harder. Very likely this is because your organisation does not have an implementation strategy or framework for implementing ideas. This workshop uses ACT and a lot of creativity to develop an implementation strategy fit for your organisation Learn more...

• Strategic vision. The world's most innovative companies do not focus on innovation. Rather they focus on achieving unique strategic goals using innovation as a tool -- nothing more, nothing less. In order for this to work, you need a unique strategy. ACT and I will help you do that. Contact us to learn more...

• Corporate Culture. Does your corporate culture embrace new ideas, tolerate failure and encourage people to share and develop ideas? If not, I can help. Contact us to learn more...

Creative Creativity

• Journey Through Your Imagination with Johann Sebastian Bach. If you want something really different, creative and inspiring for an annual meeting, an international get-together or other event, this might be just the thing. Together with acclaimed international concert violinist, Olga Guy, Jeffrey leads the audience into a meditative state and from their into their own imaginations. At this point, the music of Bach -- performed live by Olga Guy -- leads participants on a journey of ideas, inspiration and insight. The results are remarkable and the workshop can be almost spiritual in nature. Learn more...

Contact Jeffrey to discuss training and service solutions to meet your business's needs.

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