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Creativity
What is creativity?
Creativity is defined as “the ability to transcend
traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or
the like, and to create meaningful new ideas,
forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality,
progressiveness, or imagination”
What does that mean???
Cleverness, genius, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration,
inventiveness, originality, resourcefulness, talent,
vision
What can we assume about creativity?
Creativity is essential for health, happiness,
and success
Creativity is within everyone
Creativity varies among individuals
We can develop creativity by experiencing it
Attitudes toward creativity
Oh no! A problem!
There’s nothing I can do
It’s impossible
I’m not creative
I might fail
A problem? I’ll find a way!
There’s something I can do
Anything is possible
I’m creative in my own
way
If I fail, I’ll try again
Negative
Positive
4 Tools of Creativity
1.Faith in your own creativity
2.Absence of judgment
3.Precise observation
4.Challenging questions
1.Accept that you can be creative
2.Question traditional assumptions
3.Expand your problem-solving styles
4.Employ creativity techniques
5.Practice thinking in new ways
6.Learn when your creative thinking is best
Steps to personal creativity
Improving your creative abilities
Keep track of your ideas at all times
Pose new questions to yourself every day
Keep abreast of your field
Engage in imaginative hobbies
Have courage and self-confidence
Learn to know and understand yourself
Improving your creative abilities
Learn about things outside your specialty
Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things
Be open and receptive to ideas
Be alert in your observations
Adopt a risk-taking attitude
Keep your sense of humor
Stimulants to Creativity
Learn about things outside your specialty
Avoid rigid, set patterns of doing things
Be open and receptive to ideas
Be alert in your observations
Adopt a risk-taking attitude
Keep your sense of humor
Stimulants to Creativity
Freedom in deciding what work to do and how
to do it
Resources needed to do the work
Encouragement from a supervisor who is a good
professional role model, sets appropriate goals,
supports, and has confidence in the work group
Organizational culture that supports creativity
and communicates a clear shared vision
Why is creativity important?
Global challenges and problems
Rapidly changing and competitive work
environments
Increased productivity
Greater customer satisfaction
Enhanced employee engagement
What is innovation?
Innovation is defined as “something new or
different introduced”
What does that mean???
Improvement, advancement, building,
furthering, increasing, modernization
Creativity + Application = Innovation
Believe in your ideas
Never be embarrassed to share ideas
There’s no such thing as a bad idea
Explain them well to others
Brainstorm, research, and implement ideas
Internal thinking
Very difficult to
measure and define
External
Putting creative
thoughts to use
Has been tested and
found to work in the
real world
Creativity Innovation
Intended results
Propel a company ahead of competitors
Increase trust, respect, leadership in the
workplace
Encourage teamwork
Encourages thinking outside the box
“
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There’s a way to do it better—find it.
Thomas Edison
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