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Think "outside the box" and drive performance throughout your organization!

• Do you wish you could try things at work that have never been done before?

• Do you face resistance to new ideas from staff or senior management? 

• Do you doubt your own capacity for creativity and innovation?

Relying on yesterday's ideas, products and assumptions can spell failure to your organization and detriment to your career. How can you develop more of the competencies necessary to innovate and succeed…overcome objections and time/money restraints…and foster a culture of creativity to get results?

In this lively, interactive, motivating and hands-on seminar, you will be given proven processes for coming up with new ideas, and a ready-to-go blueprint for establishing a climate of innovation. You will discover new ways to break through mental barriers, ho-hum thinking and roadblocks-in order to improve performance and unleash the creative potential in yourself and your team.

1. Gain practice in creative thinking methods to generate ideas and solutions

2. Anticipate and overcome mental barriers to change

3. Discover new methods for securing buy-in for new initiatives

4. Create a work environment that encourages out-of-the-box thinking and risk-taking

5. Apply innovative techniques to improve systems, products and processes

6. Establish a culture of creativity to enhance teamwork, morale, group performance and collaboration

• How to recognize your own cognitive preferences as well as those of your team

• How to assess how creativity is supported in your work environment

• How to design teams to increase their creative potential and channel conflict towards productive purposes

• How to alter attitudes, group norms, and physical surroundings in ways that improve the likelihood of innovative results

• How to encourage, nurture and act on new ideas

• Apply techniques to improve systems, products and processes

• Styles of creating and innovating: understanding the creative mindset

• Jumpstarting creativity: using resources from the "real world" to spark new ideas

• Creative problem solving and decision making

• Methods to boost morale and "incentivize" creative talent

• How to increase efficiency and reduce errors, complaints and expenditures

• Techniques for implementing innovations

• Staying engaged: action plans for sustaining creativity back at work

• Continue to develop; become the champion and leader; stay engaged

Dr. Clifford (Cliff) R. Kettemborough’s professional background spans 30 years.  His business and management experience includes: developing centers of business and organizational excellence, IT and technology-based strategy development, strategic global marketing, business process re-engineering, strategic global business management, continuous quality/process improvement, achieving process and operational excellence, total quality management, systems and software engineering, and technical and organizational leadership.

Dr. Kettemborough’s knowledge, experiences and superior presentation skills makes him very much in demand with numerous training and development organizations as a seminar/workshop leader, as a professor to numerous colleges and universities, or as a quest speaker at professional conferences.  In addition, he is sought by companies wishing to understand how to benefit from knowledge based economy, by helping them to improve knowledge processes, increase intellectual capital value, importance of benchmarking and lead major business changes.

Dr. Kettemborough functioned in professional positions, including senior management for several large organizations such as: Boeing, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Rockwell International (now Boeing Corp.), Xerox Corp., IBM Corp. (Europe), Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Transamerica Financial Services, Corp., and Software Analysis & Management, Inc.  In addition, Dr. Kettemborough is the Founder, President and Owner of a high-tech organization established to help companies with successful solutions to their technology, management and business challenges, and an education and corporate training provider that connects industry organizations with various educational and training institutions to satisfy growing training needs of their employees.

Dr. Kettemborough has worked with prestigious consulting firms, such as Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse and McKensie & Assoc. on technology and business assessment and strategic planning projects.

Dr. Kettemborough has been invited as a guest speaker to numerous seminars and has conducted numerous workshops and corporate training around the world.  He has extensive intercultural experiences teaching numerous MBA, EMBA, IMBA, DBA courses overseas (over 60).  His industry consulting expertise has been appreciated by numerous companies in several countries.  Dr. Kettemborough’s teaching, seminars, workshops, guest speaker, and international consulting experience includes numerous organizations across all types of industries in The United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Korea, Japan, P. R. China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Mongolia and Romania.  In addition, Dr. Kettemborough has traveled to over 100 countries, thus being well versed in many cultures and customs, both personal and for business purposes.

In addition to his professional career with several large business organizations, Dr. Kettemborough is an accomplished professor with outstanding evaluations from undergraduate, graduate, and executive students, as well as administrators.  He has extensive teaching and training experience at close to 30 different institutions ranging from high-school to vocational college and to college and university graduate level on three continents.  He has taught over 600 and a variety of courses (live) including over 100 on-line using Blackboard, Convene, eCollege, Embanet, eCompanion) in Computer Science, Management of Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Administration, and Technology Management.

Dr. Kettemborough is also listed in "Who's Who in California, West, America, World, Emerging Leaders in America, Science and Engineering, Information Technology, International Who’s Who of Professionals, World Who’s Who Hall of Fame", “International Cultural Diploma of Honor” publications in U.S. and U.K.  “1996, 1998 Man of the Year,” “1997 Platinum Record for Exceptional Performance,” and “Gold Record of Achievement for 1999" awards from American Biographical Institute, "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 20th Century," and “Top 100 Communicators – 2006” and "International Man of the Year" from International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, U.K.  Member of Research Board of Advisors - American Biographical Institute.  He also is a member of several Professional organizations such as: ACM, AIAA, AMA, AMS, DECUS, ICCP, IEEE, ISACA, MAA, NMA, QAI.  Military service: major-lieutenant, in reserve, special operations. 

Dr. Kettemborough has also received the following awards: NASA/JPL Leadership Award for Y2K Project Successful Completion, ahead of schedule and he has been Nominated Member in “Alfred Whitehead Leadership Society” - 1996.  Finally, Dr. Kettemborough is sought by numerous world class publishing companies as a consultant and textbook reviewer, such as: Addison-Wesley, McGraw-Hill, Pearson/Prentice-Hall, Thomson/Course Technology.

Dr. Kettemborough’s formal educational background spans over 30 years of undergraduate, graduate and post –graduate work.  He holds numerous formal degrees, as follows: Doctor of Education, Specialty: Computer Technology in Education, Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration, Specialty: Technology Management with “Honors”, Doctor of Philosophy in Computer & Information Sciences with “Honors”, Master in Education, Specialty: Education Leadership, Master of Business Administration, Master of Management Information Systems, Master of Science in Computer Science, Studies in Cybernetics, Licentiate/Diplomat (Bachelor of Science with Thesis) in  Mathematics/Informatics/Operations Research.

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