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Kamal Dabawala, ITF 150 (JCI India)

Wide AngleA Training Program on Creative Thinking


OPENING, WELCOME & GROUP FORMATION

Module I


Opening, Welcome & Group Formation


ObjectivesThe course will help you to:

1. Recognize myths & realities of Creativity.

2. Learn tools & techniques to think creatively.

3. Understand & learn the process to unleash your Creativity.

4. Identify the ways to fight traditional thinking.


Individual Activity: Folding Hands

• Fold your hands• Observe your style of

folding the hands• Now unfold the hands

and quickly refold it in exactly opposite manner

• Share your experience with the group


Discussion

• Share your experiences….• How was the task?• What problem did you faced in completing

the task?• What other situations (at home or work)

are like this?


Need to be Creative • In today's continually changing, competitive and

challenging world, those who can think Creatively will persist.

• It opens you up to new possibilities and to change.

• It helps you “Stand out of the crowd”.

• It helps you in problem solving.

• It helps you to bring liveliness to your life.


Individual Activity: Greeting• Greet people in

different way / style• Style used by the

previous participant cannot be repeated

• Introduce yourself in a brief way.


Discussion

• Share your experiences…• What difference you find between normal /

routine greeting and this activity?

To get what we have never hadWe must do

What we have never done


Applying Creative Ideas• There is nothing more marvelous than thinking

of a new idea.• There is nothing more magnificent than seeing a

new idea working. • There is nothing more useful than a new idea

that serves your purpose.


MYTHS & REALITIESModule II


Creativity: Some Myths• It is RARE & MYSTERIOUS• Only ARTISTS are CREATIVE• It is INBORN Quality• GOD given ability to SOME


Creativity: Some Realities• Generation of NEW IDEA• It’s a simple SKILL• It can be LEARNED• It’s within …EVERYONES’S REACH


Individual Activity: Uses of a Refrigerator

• List out uses of “Out of order” Refrigerator.• Conditions:1. You cannot get it repaired.2. You cannot sale it or dispose off.3. You cannot give it as a gift.


Barriers to Creativity

• Knowledge• It’s not possible• It seems very funny• No one has done it before


How to Apply Creative Ideas

• Everyday Creativity• Specific Creativity


TOOLS & TECHNIQUES OF CREATIVE THINKING

Module III


Individual Activity: Held up in Elevator

• Imagine you are held up in an elevator.

• You are alone.• What will you do……..


Tools to think CREATIVELY

• Believe it can be done• Don’t let tradition paralyze your

mind• Ask yourself “How can I do it better”• Ask yourself “How can I do more”• Practice asking and listening• Stretch your mind


Team Activity: Best Ideas• Working in a team look out

around the room and choose any one object at random.

• As a team come up with the best way to make money with the chosen object.

• Just let your imagination run wild, and exercise your creative thinking ability.

• Total 20 Minutes 10 min: Discussion + 2 min / team for presentation


Presentations• Team will present

their idea of making money out of the selected object.

• Each team gets 2 minutes for presentation


Techniques of Creative Thinking

• The Creative Pause • Focus• Alternatives• Provocation


UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITYModule IV


Team Activity: Concept Combination

• Working in a team take two concepts or objects and combine them in some novel way.

• Example: What can you come up with from the combination of a chair and a microwave?

• Total 20 Minutes 10 min: Discussion + 2 min / team for presentation


Presentations• Team will present

their idea of combining two different objects in a novel way.



Unleash Your Creativity

• CapturingGrab Ideas, Carry writing pads

• ChallengingPut your self in difficult situation

• BroadeningMore knowledge – more diverse

• SurroundingPut unusual things on your desk.


HOW TO FIGHT TRADITIONAL THINKING

Module V


Team Activity: Human Machine• Each team to form a human machine using all

the members of the team to represent parts of the machine.

• Human machine must resemble the machine selected by the team as far as possible.

• Each team will demonstrate their machine with action & sound effect and other teams will attempt to guess the machine & its products.

• Example: Photocopier

• Total 15 Minutes 10 min: Discussion & Preparation + 2 min / team for presentation


Presentations• Each team will

demonstrate their machine with action & sound effect and other teams will attempt to guess the machine & its products.



How to fight Traditional Thinking• Become receptive to ideas• Be an experimental person• Be progressive not regressive


CLOSINGModule VI


Objectives: We talked about

1. Recognize myths & realities of Creativity.

2. Learn tools & techniques to think creatively.

3. Understand & learn the process to unleash your Creativity.

4. Identify the ways to fight traditional thinking.


Happy Creativity

Don’t be one of many…. Be Unique

Nothing much will happen with creativity unless someone makes it happen.

Have Wide Angle, Wider Angle In Life


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