Creativity for Finance Professionals

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Successfully dealing with a constantly changing environment requires creativity. But what does that mean for a finance professional? This course introduces you to the key skills, tools, strategies, and processes for enhancing creativity in your workplace.

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours

120 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Creativity for Finance Professionals

£100 +VAT

4 CPD hours 120 days’ access
Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

Creativity for Finance Professionals

This course is not currently available. To find out more, please get in touch.

This course will enable you to

  • Future-proof your career by developing your creativity
  • Adopt habits and behaviours that enhance your imagination and problem-solving skills
  • Create an environment that encourages creativity in the workplace
  • Identify and remove barriers that hinder creative collaboration
  • Use tools to generate, organise and evaluate ideas
  • Support and motivate creative people and measure creative performance

About the course

Creativity is a key skill for the accountant of the future. As much transactional work becomes automated, accountants must learn to be creative and solve problems if they are to add value to the organisation.

This course explains some simple techniques for improving your creativity as a finance professional, enhancing your creative skills and becoming more confident in finding innovative solutions. You’ll also discover how to develop a creative workplace that is better placed at overcoming problems and change.

Contents

Understanding creativity

The importance of creativity
What is creativity?
Workplace creativity
How to come up with ideas
Your creative potential
Finding time to be creative

Looking at your world in new ways

Driving creativity
Expansive thinking
Tools for reframing
Making creative connections
Finding fresh perspectives
Stepping into other people’s shoes

Developing a creative workplace

Creativity at work
The right environment
Creativity in remote settings
Using expansive language

Embracing the creative process

It’s a process
Understanding the creative process
Getting your thinking right
Involving other people
Riding the emotional rollercoaster
Overcoming challenges
Staying creative under pressure

Tools and strategies

Tools and strategies
Brainstorming
Nominal group technique
Affinity mapping
Multi-voting
Rank ordering
Tools for testing ideas
Structured discussion
Thinking like devils and murderers

Inspiring and managing creativity

Creative management
Motivating creative people
Creative focus
Evaluating creative performance
Writing a creative brief
Creative feedback

How it works

Author

Anna Faherty

Writer, lecturer and consultant working across the publishing, museum and charity sectors.