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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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