World creativity and innovation day was on Friday the 21 April – The day promotes the importance of creativity and innovation on the continent South Africa's Innotivity Institute is leading celebrations in Africa and beyond, speaking at events in South Africa, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the US.

World creativity and innovation day was on Friday the 21 April – The day promotes the importance of creativity and innovation on the continent South Africa's Innotivity Institute is leading celebrations in Africa and beyond, speaking at events in South Africa, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the US.

 

Michael Lee – FOUNDER OF Innotivity

 

The Innotivity Institute’s programs of creativity and innovation training, coaching, consulting and mindset makeovers help coaches, teams, and leaders master the future of work.

Creativity and innovation are the most important skills in business today – LinkedIn, the World Economic Forum, Forbes, IBM and many other sources say it.

But 98% of adults have lost access to the creative genius we were born with. That poses a challenge.

 

SONGS:

 

 

GUESTS:

1.      Rapelang Rabana – Founder of Rekindle Learning

2.      Tu Nokwe – tbc

 

 

 

MORE INFO ABOUT THE GUESTS THOUGHTS ON INNOVATION:

 

Here’s the bad news: 98% of adults have lost access to the creativity they were born with. And so our ability to shift to meet all these changes has been radically compromised.

Worse, we are currently in the fastest period of change in human history and it’s only getting faster. An unstable economy, unpredictable customer expectations, and the need to reskill talent constantly are just a few of the many challenges to profit and productivity.

This requires company leaders to be agile, to continuously learn and improve, and to ensure their employees do the same.

The good news is we can re-access the full extent of our natural creativity and innovation abilities to help our businesses thrive no matter what changes are thrown at us.

Having a powerful innovation mindset maximizes our adaptability, shores up our resilience, and empowers our ability to deal with the stress of uncertainty.
 
In fact, increasing the innovation mindset of your people can help you solve almost any issue you are facing.
 
This is why IBM says creativity is the most important determinant of success.
 
It’s also why 7 of the 10 World Economic Forum skills for 2025 are related to creativity and innovation thinking.
 
Now you might ask WHY we’ve lost our natural innovation abilities.
 
It boils down to this: if a child had the mind of an adult she would never learn to walk. She would fall down a few times and think, this really isn’t ME. I’m good at crawling and sucking my thumb, but not this walking thing.
 
We human beings get attached to how we see ourselves and the world. This messes up our creative thinking. We talk about thinking out of the box but in fact how we think is entirely INTO boxes, judging things quickly according to our existing perceptions and beliefs. This is why your employees struggle to innovate.

Now here is the VERY good news: since we were all born highly innovative, we can get this ability back.

The key is to innovate the people first, not the systems.

We offer innovation mindset training that helps leaders and teams become more flexible in their thinking.

Working with us, you will empower your employees to be quick on their feet to cause breakthrough results.

We also offer assessments of the cutting edge Adaptability Quotient to help you understand exactly how to help your employees grow their adaptability even after the training.

What, you might wonder, is Innotivity? Let’s have a chat and we’ll tell you more about the meaning of this unusual word, and how it can help your company.