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Transforming Health Care: Creative Thinking for Serious People

University of Minnesota, School of Nursing

Wednesday Jun 25, 2014 08:30 am EDT to Thursday Jun 26, 2014 04:30 pm EDT
The Commons Hotel
615 Washington Ave SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
United States

For more information: densford@umn.edu

A 2-day seminar by Paul Plsek

About the seminar:

Transformation requires creative thinking. While the need to transform healthcare delivery is pressing, most of what we see in practice is incremental variations on the same themes.  For example, we strive to improve patient experience or reduce waiting times, but maintain the decades-old mental models of, "You come to see us" and "this is the sequence of events that must occur."  We need better ideas that challenge these underlying models.

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Who Should Attend:

Individuals and Quality improvement teams from health care organizations are invited to attend this workshop with a quality improvement or health care redesign challenge in mind. Come and learn how directed creativity can influence your thinking and accelerate your work, quality improvement and redesign efforts. Participants will gain knowledge, tools and techniques, as well as confidence and insights about leading redesign innovations and triple aim quality improvement projects in their health care organizations through the application of directed creativity and design thinking processes.

Day 1 Morning

Need for creativity and innovation in healthcare
Definitions of terms
Basic models of the mind from the cognitive sciences
Three key mental actions behind all creative thought

Exercises: Practice with basic tools for idea generation

Eight habits of creative individuals

Day 1 Afternoon

Integrating directed creativity into existing organizational leadership and improvement efforts
Healthcare examples from the experience of Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle

Exercises: Additional tools for idea generation

Innovation: Moving beyond ideas to implementation of change

Exercises: Harvesting and developing creative ideas

Day 2 Morning

Assessing and enhancing an organizational culture that supports creativity and innovation

Exercises: Assessing your organization’s culture for innovation

Taking it home and putting DirectedCreativity to work

Exercises: Developing personal and organizational action plans

Resources for further learning

Day 2 Afternoon Post Workshop Coaching Plans

Developing Action and implementation plans Plan 1 and Plan 2

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