ReCreate - A Workshop for Creative Professionals
Duration 2 days
Objectives
As a creative professional, you will be no stranger to the daily challenge of coming up with fresh and vibrant ideas, designs or concepts that are innovative and relevant, yet always delivered within tight timescales for often very demanding clients.
You wouldnt have it any other way!
You know that creativity is the raw fuel that drives you and your work. The way in which you nurture, develop and harness your creative energy defines how powerful your engine is.
Yet creative blocks, lack of inspiration, pressure, client handling issues and job stress can all severely impact the way in which you are able to deliver the high quality creative solutions that satisfy both you and your clients.
Keeping your creativity flowing, vibrant, fresh and productive can make all the difference between winning and losing your next pitch.
These problems can affect all creative professionals, from freelancers to senior creatives in the biggest and best agencies in the land.
So how do you keep at your creative peak? This is where our new workshop, specially developed for the creative industry, comes in. Because we know that your creativity is a renewable form of energy! Requirements
The only requirement for this course is that you wish to invest in your own creativity to get more job satisfaction and to enable you to do your job better!
Course Outline
Overview - a look at the Creative Process
What do we mean by creativity?
Do we need a process in any case?
Self-expression vs client need
It's good, but is it Art?
Being totally Original
Overcoming Creative Blocks
Handling Pressure and Stress
Finding and Managing inspiration
Staying Motivated
Using Empathy
Using deadlines to your advantage
Using other peoples ideas - is it a sin?
Aids to Creativity
The role of Music
Ambience
Mentoring
Meditation
Balancing right and left Brain activities
Collaboration
Creativity in 'non' creative tasks
Creative, or lateral thinking in problem solving
Reacting creatively to problems
Client Handling Issues
Handling clients who have done an evening class in design
Understanding how clients see creativity
Explaining your creativity to non-creatives
Pleasing clients - must this be the death of creativity?
Managing the creative contract
Working with Limited Materials or Media
Limited materials - threat or opportunity?
Working with Limited Budgets
How budgetary restrictions impact creativity
How to manage these impacts
Using restrictions creatively!
Working with Tight Deadlines
Avoid choking on a deadline
Working Hard or Smart?
What do we mean by working smart
Does this mean we dont need to work hard
Does hard work guarantee a result
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