Diversity Half-Day Workshop

Assessment sessions are scheduled for 30 minutes at least a day before the workshop in order to take the KAI and have scores ready for the half-day workshop.

Workshop Sessions are scheduled for 3-4 hours

• Learn how you are creative, solve problems and make decisions in your own style.
• Learn how other people are creative, solve problems and make decisions in their styles.
• Learn how diverse styles can be brought together to be creative, solve problems, make decisions and manage change effectively.

This workshop is for you if you are interested in learning how to capitalize on your preferred creativity, problem solving and decision making style and on the styles of others. 

This is no run-of-the-mill workshop; the facilitators will engage participants and provide insight that will help people manage change effectively. 

Participants will:  

• Receive a personal 8 page KAI feedback report containing results and explanations of the concepts.
• Learn about the contributions and challenges of each KAI style.
• Learn how to manage change, teach, lead, read other people and work with people who are different,
• Participate in experiences that will illustrate preferred styles.

The world is in constant change and managing change is a constant challenge. Feedback from the KAI will give you information about yourself and help you to articulate how your creativity, problem solving and decision making style is similar to some people you know but is different from others. This measure will help you to understand how these similarities and differences can be put to better use when working with others in groups.

Your KAI profile will help you to understand why you find some tasks comfortable while others drive you crazy and will identify your most effective roles in the creativity, problem solving and decision making process. While every style of problem solving is valuable and equally important, understanding the differences and your own preferences can be extremely important in developing effective problem solving processes.

Participants will learn how to more effectively:

• Provide team building in their group.
• Manage change in their group.
• Manage cognitive diversity in their group.
• Manage task assignments in their group.
• Manage interpersonal interactions in their group.

What is the KAI? 

• All people are creative, solve problems and make decisions in their own style

• All people manage change in their own style.

Developed by Dr. Michael Kirton, the KAI is a 33 item inventory primarily focused on assessing individual thinking style with particular interest in people’s creativity style, problem solving style and decision making style. The Adaption-Innovation Theory is founded on the assumption that all people solve problems and are creative. The theory is concerned only with style and sharply distinguishes between level and style of creativity, problem solving and decision making. 

These style differences lie on a continuum, ranging from High Adaption to High Innovation. The key distinction is that people who score as more Adaptive prefer their problems to be associated with more structure and more of this structure consensually agreed than do the people who score more Innovative. People with a more innovative preference are comfortable solving problems with less structure and are less concerned that the structure be consensually agreed than are the more Adaptive people.