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Breakthrough CreativityHow to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership

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Lynne C. Levesque, Ed.D.LEADERSHIP AND CREATIVITY CONSULTANT

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Presented by Dr. Lynne Levesque, author of the Breakthrough Creativity Profile

Breakthrough Creativity:How to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership


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Top 10 Skills – 2016 World Economic Forum

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Benefits of Creativity for Leaders

• More inventive decisions, strategies, and solutions.

• Heightened ability to communicate and motivate.

• Increased personal resilience.

• Greater comfort with risk, experimentation, and ambiguity.


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Today’s Objectives

• Appreciate the breadth and depth around creativity.

• See the power of creativity for more effective leadership.

• Apply new knowledge to leadership development programs.


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Poll #1

Are you a creative leader?

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Key Principles: Creativity

We are all creative.

Creativity must be broadly defined.

There is no ideal model or one best way to be creative.


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Tell Us

How do you define creativity?

Please use your ‘questions’ window to share your definition.


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Creativity—A Definition

The ability to consciously produce different and valuable results.

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Key Principles: High-Performance Leadership

Effective leadership requires versatility.

Effective leaders must be strategic and operational.

Effective leaders must be forceful and enabling.

The Versatile Leader by Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser.


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Creativity and Leadership Require

Perception Judgment&

ReflectionAction &

It’s a balancing act!


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Talent—A Definition

A preference for taking in certain kinds of data or for making judgments about data that:

• produces particular creative results.

• makes distinct creative contributions.

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Jung’s Psychological Types

Four Functions Two Orientations

• Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)

• Eight psychological types

• A compass for self-awareness

Collecting Data Making Decisions

Intuiting

Sensing Thinking

Feeling

Extraverted

Introverted


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Eight Creative Talents

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Jung’s Psychological Types

Breakthrough Creativity Approach



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Explorer Energetic Catalyst

Poet Thoughtful Counselor

Navigator Pragmatic Adapter

Pilot Analytical Strategist

Diplomat Collaborative

NegotiatorVisionaryInsightful Futurist

InventorParadigm

Shifter

AdventurerSkilled

Improviser

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• Are equally creative.

• Are all accessible to everyone.

• Impact your creativity differently.• Color how you interpret data.

• Shape how you see problems and make decisions.

• Fashion your approach to problem solving, decision making, and leading.

• Are tools for greater leadership.



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Poll #2

How are you a creative leader from a data-collecting

perspective?


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Adventurer: Skilled Improviser

• Spontaneous, flexible, curious, and fun-loving.

• Finds skillful ways to get around obstacles and is ready to act.

• Asks practical questions: who, what, where.

• Experimental, opportunistic, improvisational.

• Leadership style: “operational.”

• Can get caught up in the moment, ignore the future, and undervalue process.

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Navigator: Pragmatic Adapter

• Careful, thoughtful, and private.

• Fine-tunes and builds on what others have done.

• Asks practical questions, wants concrete evidence.

• Methodical, incremental approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “operational.”

• Uncomfortable with uncertainty and overly cautious.


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• Loves to brainstorm possibilities with others.

• Inspires ingenuity and discovery.

• Asks about concepts and patterns.

• Future-focused, broad search for opportunities.

• Leadership style: “strategic.”

• Often better at starting ventures than finishing them.

Explorer: Energetic Catalyst


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• Private, thoughtful, and often counterintuitive.

• Finds long-term, breakthrough solutions to problems.

• Asks bold, penetrating, unusual questions.

• Has a multi-disciplined and systemic perspective.

• Leadership style: “strategic.”

• Can neglect relevant facts and details and fail to engage others.

Visionary: Insightful Futurist

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Poll #3

How are you a creative leader from a decision-making

perspective?


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• Enjoys working with others while leading projects to achieve goals.

• Provides new and different strategies and designs.

• Relishes playing devil’s advocate with the team.

• Structured, logical approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “forceful.”

• May be uncomfortable with the ambiguity around innovation.

Pilot: Analytical Strategist


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Inventor: Paradigm Shifter

• Objective, detached, and private.

• Provides unusual frameworks that often shift thinking.

• Takes a logical, analytical approach to problems and decisions.

• Has an internal blueprint of how things work.

• Leadership style: “quietly forceful.”

• Tends to see things as “either/or”.

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• Enjoys organizing people to achieve common goals.

• Provides caring leadership and builds a safe place for sharing ideas.

• Questions will asks about perspectives of others, worth and importance.

• People-focused innovation approach.

• Leadership style: “enabling.”

• Tends to prefer harmony to conflict.

Diplomat: Collaborative Negotiator


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• Quietly supportive and nurturing.

• Offers safe place for testing out ideas.

• Considers personal values and ideals in questions.

• People and value-focused approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “quietly enabling.”

• Can overlook points of view that clash with strongly held values.

Poet: Thoughtful Counselor


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Poll #4

Now, how creative are you as a leader?

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Steps for Developing More Creative Leaders

• Help them grow awareness of creative strengths and differences and identify obstacles.

• Build a supportive, motivating culture.

• Provide a variety of role models.

• Create action-learning projects and teams.


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Creative Talents and Teams

• Team’s creativity profile has particular strengths and challenges.

• Awareness of profile can:• Improve team’s interactions and creative outcomes.

• Help team members grow and develop their creativity individually and as a team.

• Enhance ability to give feedback.

• Add more fun.


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Next Steps

• What will you do today to enhance your own creativity as a leader?

• What about with your team?

• What can you do to integrate creativity into leadership development programs?

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in

having new eyes.”

~ Marcel Proust

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