Can Creativity be Defined?Can Creativity be Defined?

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Making of the New and

Rearranging of the Old

Right-Brain / Left-Brain

Right-Brain / Left-Brain

• Intuitive• Visual• Spontaneous• Experimental• Arts & Music• Playful• Tactile• Aesthetic

• Analytical• Verbal• Sequential• Cause & Effect• Science & Math• Logical• Organizing• Planning

Our Creative Selvesby

Ned Herrmann

Problem Finding Self• Factual• Rigorous• Research• Analytical• Financial

Implementing Self• Disciplined• Organized• Capturing• Verifying• Planning

Idea Finding Self• Holistic• Playful• Intuitive• Visionary• Experimental

Idea Sensing Self• Interpersonal• Aesthetic• Spiritual• Sensual• Tactile

Nine Uncreative Boxes

Nine Uncreative Boxes• Time Trapped• Environmental Pollution• Risky Business Zone• Perfectionist Problem• Calm Waters• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy• Only One Right Answer• Bottom-Line Thinking• Wright or Wrong Thinking

A Whack on the Side of the Headby Roger von Oech

• The Right Answer• That’s Not Logical• Follow the Rules• Be Practical• Play is Frivolous

• That’s Not My Area• Don’t be Foolish• Avoid Ambiguity• To Err is Wrong• I’m not Creative

Unbox Your Creativity

Where Can Creativity Flourish?

• Open-minded• Perceptive• Equal• Nurturing• Encouraging• Descriptive

A Spectrum of Creativity Techniques• Compare and combine• Risk taking• Expand and shrink• Ask “What’s good?”

and “What if?”• Transform your

viewpoint• In another sequence• Visit other places• Incubate• Trigger concepts• Youth’s advantage

ThinkerToysby

Michael Michalko

•Substitute something.•Combine it with something else•Adapt something to it.•Modify or magnify it.•Put it to some other use.•Eliminate something.•Reverse or Rearrange it.

SUBSTITUTE

COMBINE

ADAPT

MODIFY OR MAGNIFY

MODIFY

ANOTHER USE or CONTEXT

ELIMINATE

REARRANGE & REVERSE

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Turtle Race

“Behold the turtle.He makes progress only when he

sticks his neck out.”-James Conan Bryant

Company’s Creative Past

Brainstorming

Better to light one candle than to curse the

darkness

Come Out of Your Shell

Flower

Creative Flashes

Review the data

Rest the data

Realize the need

Recognize the spark

Refine

The Five R’s of Creativity

Likes to play with clay

Would like to write a book

Has painted a picture

Enjoys daydreaming

Is a closet poet