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Thinking Together:A Thinking Styles Approach to
Group CreativityA Workshop for the
PS21 EXCEL Convention, 28 Nov 2008
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Workshop Big Ideas• Individual creativity may be limited
• Group creativity is based on collaboration
• However, groups often report low creativity
• Individuals believe they can perform better than groups
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Check-ins
• In pairs, discuss what creativity is
• Share at the table your discoveries and questions.
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Check-ins
• Cards - Purpose: Identify thinking preferences, introduce each other
• What’s your creative outlet?
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Thinking Attributes Defined
Behavioral Attributes Defined
Clear thinkerLogical problem solver
Enjoys mathRational
Learns by mental analysis
Intuitive about ideasImaginativeVisionary
Enjoys the unusualLearns by experimenting
Practical thinkerLikes guidelines
Cautious of new ideasPredictable
Learns by doing
Intuitive about peopleSocially awareSympatheticEmpathetic
Learns from others
EXPRESSIVENESSThe outward display of emotions toward others and the world at large
ASSERTIVENESSSThe degree of energy invested in expressing thoughts, feelings and beliefs
FLEXIBILITYWillingness to accommodate to the thoughts and actions of others
Advertisements as CreativeOutputs
• Ads are egs of creative outputs you see everyday
• Targetted at specific thinking styles,
• Ad Exercise : Which thinking styles are targetted by the ads you’ve been given?
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Mental Models
• Our mental representation of something existing in the real world.
• May not be accurate.
• We bring our mental models into group life, affecting group creativity.
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Group Creativity
• Mental Models of common behaviours:
• Expressiveness
• Assertiveness
• Flexibility
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Expressivenessthe outward display of
emotions toward others andthe world-at-large
Quiet Alone Reserved Spontaneous Gregarious Performer
1/3 2/3 3/3
Assertivenessthe degree of energy
invested in expressingthoughts, beliefs and feelings
Peacekeeper Amiable Easy going Competitive Driving Telling
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1/3 2/3 3/3
Flexibilitythe willingness to
accommodate to thethoughts and actions of
others
Likesdefined
situations
Likescontrol
Likesdifferent
points of viewLikes
ambiguityPuts
others’needs
before self
Strongopinions
1/3 2/3 3/3
Creative Output
• In your groups, create:
• a sculpture of cards
• an advertisement to sell it, to reach all 4 thinking styles
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Group Creativity
• Creative results based on:
• Commitment
• Communications (debate?)
• Collaboration
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For more info:
• Email Noel E K Tan at noel@go-trailblazer.com