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This is your chance to discover how our creative systems apply to you and how innovative strategies and tactics can take your organization to the next level. To facilitate a variety of needs, we offer a variety of program lengths. In addition to our in-depth 3.5-Day Seminar we offer 1-Day Workshops, 3-Hour Workshops and 90-Minute Presentations.

Each format fulfills different needs; in the 90-Minute Presentation you will hear an engaging overview of the Disney approach; in the 3-Hour Workshop you will participate in activities that help you apply the Disney approach; and in the 1-Day Seminar you will travel behind the scenes to experience the Disney approach first-hand.

Organizational Creativity is a key element in the success of the Walt Disney World® Resort. Our approach to creativity might surprise you; far from fluffy concepts, we share the practical application of an innovative workplace. When we discuss Disney's approach to Organizational Creativity we will cover:

  • Collaborative Culture - Fostering an environment where new ideas and problem solving techniques are openly discussed
  • Structural Systems - Supporting the creative process in a way that leads to increased productivity
  • Organizational Identity - Keeping creative energy focused on your organization's goals
  • The Leader's Role - Leveraging the responsibility, commitment and ability of a leader to inspire organizational creativity

 

90-Minute Presentation: The Disney Approach to Organizational Creativity
Your personal Disney Institute facilitator will lead your guests through an inspirational 90-Minute Presentation to understand how Disney boosts productivity through creativity. Through fascinating insights and insider information, your facilitator will provide your group with an engaging overview of the Disney Approach to Organizational Creativity.

While listening to this entertaining presentation you will:

  • Explore how to foster an innovative environment
  • Examine strategies to practice collaboration
  • Discover how to inspire creative problem solving in your organization

 

3-Hour Workshop: The Disney Approach to Organizational Creativity
In this hands-on Three Hour Workshop, our Disney Institute facilitator will use our trademark interactive style to bring your workshop to life. We don't just talk about creativity at the Disney Institute, we apply it to our programs. You will be guided in exploring for yourself the way in which the Disney Approach applies to your organization.

Through dynamic discussion and innovative exercises, our facilitator will lead your group in making their own discoveries. In this interactive session you will:

  • Explore how to foster an innovative environment
  • Engage in application activities that allow you to practice collaboration
  • Identify Action Steps to inspire creative problem solving in your organization

 

One Day Seminar: The Disney Approach to Organizational Creativity
In the One Day Seminar experience, our dynamic facilitators will lead you on a journey to help you understand and learn how to implement the Disney Approach. After an interactive classroom discussion, your group will travel backstage to our living laboratory to see the Disney approach in action. Finally, our facilitator will lead you in exercises to help you apply our principles to your organization.

One Day Seminar - Typical Agenda
Morning

  • Explore how organizational identity gives focus to creativity
  • Discover how to nurture a collaborative environment where new ideas and problem-solving options are openly expressed

Afternoon

  • Travel behind-the-scenes to see how Disney's structural systems support the creative process and enhance productivity
  • Meet with a Disney leader to learn how we maintain creativity in the workplace
  • Create Action Steps to inspire innovation in your organization  

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