Few people believe that there is any practical way to protect our borders against the loss of outsourced jobs - even if we want to. What we can do, however, is create a new generation of opportunities for individuals and businesses under pressure from outsourcing; a generation of opportunities that meets the demands of the new era... the era of creativity.
     Many US and international businesses have made considerable investments in restructuring to try and create work environments in which new ideas can be generated, identified and nurtured. Often, these investments have shown only limited success and the results are short lived. However, the techniques you will experience during Creative Paths' workshops derive from a new and unique approach. This approach is supported by research and is grounded in the notion that everyone has creative potential. Given an appropriate environment organizations can, and must, utilize the creative energies from everyone associated with the business; not just those in marketing or R & D, or otherwise identified as especially creative people, and not just employees. Based on solid research, the Group Affiliation Model of Creativity™ and Spherical Thinking™ offer new ways to understand creativity.
     Creativity is vital to personal success as well as for organizations. The development of creative and innovative skills helps us cope with downsizing and outsourcing as well as global competition in general. Through the unique concepts of macrocreativity™ and microcreativity™ Creative Paths’ workshops address creativity individually and within groups, teams and organizations.
     Now more than ever before we need to nurture creativity within ourselves and in our work environments. Creative Paths helps you meet those challenges. We help people create environments where individuals and teams can achieve their creative potential. We offer workshops and we design custom programs within organizations. Whether you need to solve a specific problem or you are simply enlightened
enough to realize how crucial it is to develop an atmosphere in which creativity and
innovation can blossom, Creative Paths can guide you through the process.
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Learn more about Dr. André Walton and his passion for creativity

Creativity and innovation are the cornerstones of corporate success. From music and the arts to science, technology and management, most innovative contributions have emanated from the United States and Northern Europe. There are signs, however, that other parts of the world are catching up. Many of the jobs that are outsourced from the US are currently relatively unskilled - telephone support, airline ticket reservations, for example, but this is changing. Accountancy work such as tax preparation is being done in India and elsewhere as is the preparation of architectural drawings, semiconductor and engineering design. In other words, skilled work is beginning to be outsourced also. The trend will continue for creative projects to be moved abroad where skills can be purchased at a considerable discount to the US and Europe.