Creativity requires us to collaborate with others, and this course helps you be a better creative collaborator. We need to be able to pitch our creative ideas so that others are excited rather than baffled or dismissive by them. We need to be able to evaluate the ideas of others so we identify rather than miss creative solutions. We need to be able to work with our teams such that creativity thrives rather than is suppressed. This course addresses each of these needs, identifying challenges and providing guidance for effective performance. The end result is guidance on how to foster effective creative collaboration.
You will be able to:
-Design pitches for innovative ideas to build excitement and clarity
-Evaluate the pitches of others to identify great new ideas
-Lead groups to foster effective collaboration for innovation
This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/.
Status: Creative Problem-Solving
Creative Problem-Solving
Status: Teamwork
Teamwork
Beginner·Course·22 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Aug 9, 2018
Great class, professors make it fun and teach important concepts as to how to be creative problem solver
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 7, 2018
This course can be life changing if you take the learnings and apply to your professional and personal life. I highly recommend this course.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 12, 2020
This course was more fun and thought provoking than I thought it would be. Changed my way of thinking.
5.0
·Reviewed May 29, 2022
Well structured discussions and explanations. Prof Jeff and Prof Jack are high explained the some complex terms in a simplistic manner.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 20, 2026
Great course; professors inspire curiosity and help us expand our perspectives during our classes. Additionally, the readings help us open our minds and change our current point of view
4.0
·Reviewed May 16, 2021
Some of those sessions talk about the same topics, in the same way, should identify the difference with close topics. Thanks, I learned a lot of thing about unblocking the creativity
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 4, 2019
I loved the conversational structure of the class. It's very intuitive and opens my mind on creativity. thank you profs!
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 4, 2020
I will never look at the creative process the same. We are all very capable of being creative.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 6, 2019
What a practical, useful course for understanding and enacting creativity. Highly recommend.
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 12, 2025
thank you very much for this interesting course, it's really useful and enriched my perspective with great meaningful concepts.
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2020
Great course! I expect to use the concepts from this course in to Creative Collaboration in everyday life at home and office!
5.0
·Reviewed May 22, 2019
Awesome instructions to be Creative and follow up with team formations and team creativity
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Laleen
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·Reviewed Jul 31, 2017
This section explores creativity and teamwork. Teams inherently focus on cooperation and often have social structures which limit creativity. How can you overcome obstacles and coax innovation and creativity in a team? How can you persuade groups to consider and select new creative ideas? This is another dimension of the same problem with group decision making. You will learn what obstacles can be destructive to creativity and innovation and methods to overcome the obstacles.
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Alaa
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·Reviewed Jul 9, 2019
The beauty of this course is that it is not only work for entrepreneurs and start-ups, you can easily apply it in your daily activity within your department or organization. I found it very helpful when I was pitching a new project to my company's business partners, all what I did was just applying what I learned in this course during the project preparation period and in the pitching meeting. It worked like magic.
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Messias
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·Reviewed Mar 14, 2018
This course is taught by two instructors, Jack & Jeff. Using a debate approach, mixed with a pedagogical laughter, the goal of this course is to pass to the learner the art of implementing creative ideas. I loved this course too much because I learned that the myth of impossibility in any difficult situation can be overcome with creative collaboration.
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Damien
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·Reviewed Jul 6, 2020
Thank you Professors Loewenstein & Goncalo! Creativity Toolkit II: Creative Collaboration has been an immersive experience. The product analogies and analysis were well-rounded and elaborated with depth and understanding. Kudos to you!
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Vikrant
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 1, 2019
What am amazing course. Learned so much about creativity. Without this course, it would have been very difficult to bring out the creativity as it serves as fuel. Now I can use the fundamentals daily.
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Khem
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 5, 2018
Excellent course. Jeff and Jack are two of the most effective instructors out there who are really good at making learning fun and highly effective at the same time.
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Deepjyoti
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·Reviewed Jul 12, 2020
Thoroughly enjoyed this course on creativity. Learnt a few new tools and framework to use in creativity exercises. The professors are brilliant!!
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Jeff
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 8, 2018
This course can be life changing if you take the learnings and apply to your professional and personal life. I highly recommend this course.
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Peter
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 28, 2019
Amazing course to follow! Great teachers, with a lot of humor! They teached many practical knowledge, I can practise in my daily work!
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Supratik
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 14, 2020
Great course! I expect to use the concepts from this course in to Creative Collaboration in everyday life at home and office!
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Keith
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 9, 2020
Great course, I learned a lot. I never thought of myself as creative but now i know I can invoke techniques to be creative.
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Bo
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 5, 2019
I loved the conversational structure of the class. It's very intuitive and opens my mind on creativity. thank you profs!
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Olatunde
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 4, 2020
Superb content. I thoroughly enjoyed the course. At the end, I am equipped with knowledge needed to run creative teams.
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Joseph
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 25, 2017
Insightful and entertaining course, highly recommended if you're expected to build and foster creative work.
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Lata
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 10, 2018
Great class, professors make it fun and teach important concepts as to how to be creative problem solver
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LeAnn
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 13, 2020
This course was more fun and thought provoking than I thought it would be. Changed my way of thinking.
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Hector
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 5, 2020
I will never look at the creative process the same. We are all very capable of being creative.
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Patrick
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 7, 2019
What a practical, useful course for understanding and enacting creativity. Highly recommend.
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Gilnei
5.0
·Reviewed May 23, 2019
Awesome instructions to be Creative and follow up with team formations and team creativity
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Steve
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 7, 2019
The Jack and Jeff show. These two professors work great together on this topic.
