Day 1: Creative Climate and Challenge Reframing

The Creative Leader's Role

• Use questions before providing personal answers
• Protect emerging ideas from premature criticism
• Define clear boundaries for safe experimentation
• Analyze leader intervention during ideation

Exploring the Challenge

• Gather observations from people experiencing problems
• Separate needs from the familiar solution
• Identify constraints that must be respected
• Express a clear and useful challenge

Reframing Practical Perspective

• Change beneficiary horizon or operating scope
• Use analogy to reveal new possibilities
• Convert assumptions into questions for testing
• Produce five frames for one challenge

Day 2: Idea Generation and Concept Selection

Divergent Creative Thinking

• Separate generation activity from evaluative judgment
• Use prompts that disrupt familiar patterns
• Build upon others' ideas without copying
• Lead a round of silent ideation

Applied Productive Constraints

• Impose stimulating time or financial limits
• Remove a resource to reveal alternatives
• Combine requirements that appear contradictory
• Generate solutions under one difficult constraint

Evaluating Practical Concepts

• Define value, desirability, and feasibility criteria
• Cluster related ideas into coherent concepts
• Examine risk and critical underlying assumptions
• Select concepts through a decision board

Day 3: Prototyping, Learning, and Innovation Pitch

Rapid Prototype Construction

• Choose simple formats representing core idea
• Build enough to test one assumption
• Avoid premature investment in design details
• Compile a prototype within limited time

User Interaction Test

• Prepare tasks revealing authentic user behavior
• Observe interaction without excessive facilitator direction
• Apply questions separating opinion from experience
• Record learning that changes the concept

Innovation Pitch Simulation

• Explain challenge value and proposed concept
• Present evidence learned through prototype interaction
• Request a specific next-step decision
• Revise the pitch following panel questions

• Reframing exercises expanding understanding of the challenge
• Individual and group methods preventing voice dominance
• Rapid prototypes testing one explicitly defined assumption
• Innovation pitch before a panel providing practical critique