Starters
Flavor & Appetizing Keynotes
Want to kick off your conference in a way that will leave your audiences mouthwatering for more? Our chef’s can create and deliver keynote speeches that match the flavor of your conference and combine it with the right creativity and innovation components. Warning: Your audience may be excited and energized afterwards!
Lighter Dishes
Looking for something light and not too rich that will totally hit the spot? Try out some of our lighter dishes.
Facilitation
Our chef’s have extensive training in facilitation skills. They ask the right questions to determine where you or your team are at in the problem solving process and then they pull tools and others ingredients to help you. As they are facilitating they will also be teaching you guidelines you can use every day to make your working sessions more productive. Are you looking to add the sweet taste of success and innovation to your meetings? We can help.
Assessment Tools
Our chefs are also certified in several assessment tools that can be used to enhance communication, diffuse conflict, leverage each other’s strengths, collaborate better and solve problems more effectively. If you are hungry for these types of tools then we have some tasty treats for you. We can offer you solutions using Myers-Briggs or FourSight. Both provide you with a better understanding of yourself and your teammates.
Myers-Briggs is the oldest assessment tool and offers a rich picture of you and your team. There are several reports so we can offer several different classes on the basics of Myers-Briggs, Stress Management, Type and Communication, Type and Leadership, Conflict Management and Coaching. Each course is the same cost because a new report may need to be generated for each.
FourSight provides your team with a simple new language to help you understand each other’s preference(s) in the creative problem solving process. These differences can cause conflict if there is no awareness but after your team has this awareness it can begin leveraging the skills and strengths each person brings to the table.
Cooked to Order
Want to have our chef’s cook up something special for your organization? We would be happy to help customize a solution for your needs. We have all the right ingredients to cook something up that will help your teams work together better, solve problems more effectively, accomplish goals, run more effective meetings and collaborate better. Plus we have experience in developing and delivering courses in soft skills such as customer service, empathy, parenting skills, and so much more. Our chefs have a background in accelerated learning and can build activities that are engaging and reduce the learning time. We have even taught other trainers our secret ingredients so that they could deliver these courses too. Please Note: each custom course requires clarification of your needs and time to prepare so pricing will vary. Please contact us to find out more.
Specialty Courses
Please Note: Each specialty course takes between 3 - 4 hours and some have sides that are used as tools within the course.
Building Creative Habits
This course is savory brain food that helps individuals by examining what creativity really is and how it can help both personally and professionally. This course also develops creative habits and an innovative mindset. This course encourages participants to change problems into solvable challenges or goals so they can tackle them. Suggested Side: Ideas System $10 per person.
Developing a Creative Mindset
This delectable course delves deeper into developing creative behaviors and skills by focusing on meta and process skills for creative thinking. Meta skills nurture a creative mindset by allowing you to be more open to novelty, to embrace ambiguity, to allow the ideas to grow and be more playful which increases risk taking and experimenting. These skills support the process skills which are designed to help you improve your ability to generate novel and useful solutions to open-ended challenges. This course is centered around one of the sides which is a house specialty: the Creativity Cards.
Setting the Stage
This course is full of flavor and provides a sample of all of the parts of the creative problem solving process. Participants will be able to get a taste of clarifying, ideating, developing and implementing. If you want even more flavor you (and your team) you can take the FourSight assessment. Our chefs are certified to administer and deliver the results of this tool that will show everyone what his or her preferences are. This helps teams understand preference differences and learn to leverage each other’s strengths. Suggested Side: $35 per person for FourSight assessment. Please Note: If you would like a team assessment there is an additional $55 charge.
What’s Your Problem?
This mouthwatering course illustrates the importance of clarifying the challenge, wish or goal that you want/need to work on. It focuses on gathering data and includes several tools to help ensure that you and your team have all the right ingredients for success. Suggested Side: $30 per person for the Tool Card deck. Please note this deck can be used for all of the creative problem solving classes.
Breaking Out of the Box
This course is like popcorn for your brain. You will learn to generate ideas for the challenge, wish or goal you’re working on. This course teaches the value of generating lots of ideas and you will practice using many tools to help produce lots of ideas. Having lots of ideas assists you and your team have a wide range of possibilities and we’ll even help you narrow them down to select the best options. Suggested Side: $30 per person for the Tool Card deck. Please note this deck can be used for all of the creative problem solving classes.
Polishing for Perfection
This course has the wonderful flavor of a slow cooked meal. It shows how much better an idea can be when it has simmered or has been given the necessary time to fully develop. You and your team will learn several development tools. As an added bonus this course will help you resist that urge so many of us have to shoot down ideas immediate and to instead uncover its potential. Suggested Side: $30 per person for the Tool Card deck. Please note this deck can be used for all of the creative problem solving classes.
Mission Accomplished
This course is so sweet it could almost be called desert. Why? Because you have put together all the right ingredients, mixed them up and let them cook and now it’s time to serve that new process improvement, system, product etc. that you have created. In this course we look at the task related items as well as the people side of implementing what you have created. This course also teaches the importance of reviewing and celebrating what we learned through this process. Suggested Side: $30 per person for the Tool Card deck. Please note this deck can be used for all of the creative problem solving classes.
All You Can Eat
Several of our courses can be put together to create a rich and delicious all you can eat experience. May we suggest the Building Creative Habits & Developing a Creative Mindset combination? Or if you are really hungry we would love to serve you the complete creative problem solving process buffet. This option includes the Setting the Stage course, the What’s Your Problem? Breaking out of the Box, Polishing for Perfection and Mission Accomplished course. It’s the best five course meal you will have all year. Interested in other combinations? Please contact us to build the perfect meal.
Sides
Ideas Notebook
Our notebook may are full of yummy treats that will help you to foster your creativity by developing creative habits. It provides a place to store your ideas and encourages you to record them all and visit them again later. We have found that ideas, like many food items, are better when they have had a chance to marinate. Often we come back to them later and see new value or opportunities in them. This notebook also includes imagination blockbusters these are warm up exercises that get your brain ready for novelty.
Creativity Cards
In today's world creativity is an essential life skill that helps us to solve problems, take advantage of opportunities and accomplish goals more effectively. Our cards present prompts and challenges that can be used on a daily basis to make a shift to a more creative mindset. They are conveniently sized so that you can carry them with you as a reminder throughout the day. The deck contains Process Skills which help you realize immediate gains and Meta Skills which will provide you with lasting change. Process Skills included in this pack are: Creating a Vision Being Sensitive to Challenges and Opportunities Being Flexible, Fluent and Original when Generating Ideas Allowing for Incubation. Meta skills included in this pack are: Being Mindful Remaining Open to Novelty Embracing Ambiguity Engaging your Playfulness
Meeting Tool Cards
Have you ever been to a meeting that wasn’t so great? Do you lead meetings and want to make sure they are rich and rewarding? Our meeting tool cards can help. If you need to clarify the team’s goal or challenge, generate ideas, refine those ideas or implement your ideas these cards can help.
Re "Treats"
These dessert style treats are simply scrumptious. They are also filling and can be eaten with or without a meal. Our re-treats are perfect for your team building function or kids parties. We create a fun environment that celebrates creativity while teaching skills and habits everyone can use. These re-treats are homemade based on the amount of time you have and your audience needs.
Catering Available
Facilitating a corporate event or team retreat? We can bring the courses, sides and re-treats to you! We can even help you choose the menu items that will make your event a huge success.