Being Creative - The Next Level in Business

Innovation & Business Improvement

Next Intake: 24 Mar 2025 (Mon)

Basic
SkillsFuture
Short Courses

This module is conducted in-person.

Next course starts on

24 Mar 2025 (Mon) See Full Schedule

Fee

SGD2,180* (as low as SGD254 after maximum funding) Learn More

Duration

2 days
Weekdays (9am - 5pm)

Level

Basic

Who Should Attend

Innovators and entrepreneurs
International corporate professionals and management
Small and medium enterprise business owners
Working professionals keen to understand how creativity can value-add to business

PREREQUISITES

There are no prerequisites for this programme. Prior knowledge on any of the topics is not required.

Overview

To remain competitive and survive, we all must be more creative.

Creativity has been identified as a future skill which businesses and individuals need to develop in the coming years (World Economic Forum Top 10 Skills for 2025). Have you ever wondered why creativity is essential? How does it add value to the business? How do each of us become more creative? Let this programme answer these questions and more.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2-day course, participants will be able to:

Define what creativity is
Comprehend why creativity is a crucial future skill in business
Learn about Creative Confidence, how to achieve it and why it is so important for yourself and your team and peers
Discover creativity as a tool to solve tricky problems
Be introduced to 8 fundamental metrics to measuring creativity: Connection, Perspective, Curiosity, Boldness, Paradox, Abstraction, Complexity and Persistence
Learn how to work with constraints and design them into your creative process
Practice using creativity tools to improving productivity

Assessment

As part of the requirement for SkillsFuture Singapore, there will be an assessment conducted at the end of the course. The mode of assessment, which is up to the trainer’s discretion, may be an online quiz, a presentation or based on classroom exercises.

Participants are required to attain a minimum of 75% attendance and pass the associated assessment in order to receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by Singapore Management University.

Calculate Programme Fee

Fee Table

COMPANY-SPONSORED

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

SELF-SPONSORED

SME

NON-SME

Singapore Citizen < 40 years old

Permanent Resident

LTVP+

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$654

(After SSG Funding 70%)

Singapore Citizen ≥ 40 years old

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ ETSS Funding 20%)

$254

(After SSG Funding 70%
+ MCES Funding 20%)

International Participant

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

$2,180

(No Funding)

All prices include 9% GST

Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.

Post Secondary Education Account (PSEA)
PSEA can be utilised for subsidised programmes eligible for SkillsFuture Credit support. Click here to find out more.

Self Sponsored

SkillsFuture Credit: Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Application to utilise SkillsFuture Credits can be submitted when making payment for the course via the SMU Academy TMS Portal, and can only be made within 60 days of course start date.

Please click here for more information on the SkillsFuture Credit. For help in submitting an SFC claim, you may wish to refer to our step-by-step guide on claiming SkillsFuture Credits (Individual).
Workfare Skills Support Scheme: From 1 July 2023, the Workfare Skills Support (WSS) scheme has been enhanced. Please click here for more details.

Company Sponsored

Enhanced Training Support for SMEs (ETSS)

Organisation must be registered or incorporated in Singapore
Employment size of not more than 200 or with annual sales turnover of not more than $100 million
Trainees must be hired in accordance with the Employment Act and fully sponsored by their employers for the course
Trainees must be Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents
Trainees must not be a full-time national serviceman
Trainees will be able to enjoy ETSS funding only if the company's SME's status has been approved. To verify your SME's status, please click here.

Please click here for more information on ETSS.

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