This week of programming explores the shared foundation of Creative Problem Solving (CPS), coaching skills, and affective skills: each shaping how people think, connect, and create change. You’ll begin the week with A Creative Coach’s Toolbox, building practical coaching tools that bring the CPS process to life in real conversations. The second half of the week focuses on The Head and Heart of Innovation: Affective Skills of CPS, where you'll deepen your awareness of the emotional and mental conditions that influence every stage of thinking. Together, these elements reveal a powerful truth: effective creativity and innovation isn’t just about process, but about how we show up within it. By the end of the week, you’ll be equipped to guide both the path of ideas and the human experience that fuels them.
Part 1 (Monday - Tuesday): A Creative Coach’s Toolbox - Kathy GollerA coaching conversation – whether done in a business setting or a classroom, as part of therapy, or as a professional coach – is really just the creative problem solving process in action! Managers, educators, counselors, coaches and all those who want to help others maximize their potential will benefit from learning some CPS tools and exploring how they can be used in coaching conversations.
Participants will:
- Understand the similarities between the CPS process and the flow of a coaching conversation
- Build their competency with CPS tools
- Learn ways to apply those tools in coaching conversations
