Welcome to Creativity@Work 
& Workplace Training Resources 

Hi, I'm Karen Sieczka. As a professional workplace trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer with over 10 years of experience, I can help you tap into a variety of learning resources. Who can't use a little help these days? I can also help your organization access, evaluate, and customize training materials to help make your business and employees grow. 

Let me help you with interactive, motivational training for your next association or organizational meeting and speak on the value of innovation and creativity@ work. Run a small business? I can provide the training consultation expertise you need to make training activities targeted and relevant to your company. 

I am always ready and willing to share ideas and resources for employee training and development.

Creativity Exercise:

Get more innovative and creative right away with this training exercise: 
  • View the slideshow from the  ASTD Greater Atlanta UnConference Creativity@Work presentation, It's Not What You Think, here. 
  • View the handout from the presentation here. 
  • This Creativity @ Work exercise is also published in the 2011 ASTD Press Training Book, Road-Tested Activities. 

Articles:

Coming soon: my latest article on learning motivation from a design perspective, Motivation: The Key to Learning Transfer.

Learn how to successfully integrate social media into the workforce for a creative idea harvest. Read Harvesting Creativity through Social Media.

Both incentives and training are needed to spur innovation.Read A One-two Punch to Foster Creativity.

Paypal founders says innovation died in 1970’s. Read the article on Forbes.com.  

IBM  leadership survey  finds  CREATIVITY is the #1 crucial skill for success. 

Is America becoming less creative? Read the Newsweek article, The Creativity Crisis.

Read more articles here.

Hire:

View Karen Sieczka's work portfolio here.

Read:

Growing Great Ideas: Unleashing More
Creativity@Work E-Book Kindle Edition

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We need creative and innovative workplaces now more than ever.  Does your organization celebrate or shun new ideas? Does it ask staff to engage in the creative process or is there just the same old "suggestion" box?

What is your organization doing to help staff to be more creative and innovative at work? Anything? Nothing? It’s actually simple to start the idea processes rolling in organizations of all sizes. How? Check out THE training guide to Creativity@Work ... 

Train:

Bring Microsteps to Creativity@ Work to your organization.

It’s customizable training that addresses your organization’s challenges, projects, and opportunities by combining interchangeable creative,  idea-focused exercises with team building and problem solving skills. 

From non-profit to small business, from mega-organizations to family owned, I can provide the incremental, microsteps to unleashing creativity@ work.

More information here.

Updated: 2/27/13