Facilitator: Maria Perales

How do you

approach a

challenge? Most animals

have three responses: fight, flight or freeze

Humans have four responses: fight, flight, freeze or INNOVATE

How does a group

approach a challenge? They also have

four responses: fight, flight, freeze or INNOVATE

But we need to work with different thinking profiles

Communication styles

Decision Making Styles

Problem Solving Style

Which group is yours?• Those who MAKE IT HAPPEN.• Those who WATCH IT HAPPEN.• Those who WONDER “WHAT HAPPENED!?”

Identify four concrete examples of how individual FourSight thinking profiles impact group’s creativity in positive ways.

By the end of the 3 lessons you will be able to:

Interpret four benefits in how you positively interact with others in terms of your and their FourSight preferences in their thinking profiles

Recognize three gaps in group selection based on FourSight individual thinking profiles.

Apply FourSight thinking profiles to select group members’ tasks

It helps you understand the way you think, your thinking habits

Once you understand them, you can change them, and improve them

FourSight reveals the FOUR steps of the innovation process

And it gives you inSIGHT into how you tend to move through that process

You learn where you are likely to have breakthroughs and breakdowns as you and your team solve complicated problems

Clarify Situatio

n

Generate Ideas

Develop Solution

s

Implement Plans

Before we go any further let’s clarify the following:

PREFERENCE DOES NOT = ABILITY

The assessment you took online does not measure skill

It measures your preferences – what you like to do the most during the thinking stages

For example: grab a pen and write your name. Now switch hands and write your name again. Was it easier to write with your preferred hand? But if you had been thought to write with your other hand you’d be perfectly skilled at that!

According to Alex Osborn, who was the first to describe the thinking process, which he called “creative problem solving” creativity is not static. It is more like a muscle – work it and it gets stronger!

The creative process is universal: everyone does it!

Each step requires unique mental skills

Most of us prefer some over others

Preferences show up as strengths and potential blind spots when solving problems

AWARENESS helps us: Leverage style differences: by fortifying

areas of strengths and weaknesses Build better teams: by collaborating more

effectively Short circuit conflict: by understanding

different styles Improve performance

Clarifiers: preference for clarifying the situation

Ideators: preference for generating ideas and solutions

Developers:preference for refining and developing solutions

Implementers:preference for acting to implement plans

Activity # 1: Down the left hand side of a blank page, write the numbers one through four. Now look at the basic thinking process. Of these four types of thinking, which do you feel comes most naturally to you? (Rank that as number 1). Of the 3 remaining, which do you struggle with most? (Rank that as number 4). Of the 2 remaining, which do you enjoy the most? (Rank that as number 2. Rank the remaining as number 3). Post the ranking in your blog.

Activity #2: Now think about your team members and do the same for at least three of them– rank their thinking process the way you see it. You do not have to identify the person’s names.

Please answer in your blog the following questions:• Who do you find easiest to collaborate with? A clarifier, ideator, developer or implementer? Why?• Who do you find it most difficult to collaborate with? A clarifier, ideator, developer or implementer? Why? •What do you think are the preferences of the people you admire? What can you learn from them?

At this time please read your FourSight scores, understand your peak

preferences and compare with the rankings you did in

activity #1.