CREATIVITY AT THE WORKPLACE

Introduction

• Overview of creativity

• Creative process

• Creative person

• Creative perception

• Understanding your personality characteristics - The LEONARD Personality Inventory

Enhancing Your Creativity

• The creative Imaginator
• The creative Expert
• The creative Thinker
• The creative Relator
• The creative Decision Maker

Using the Creative Process

• Self-imposed constraints

• Emotional blocks

• Mental blocks

Principle of creativity

• Everyone has creative potential
• There are four faces of creativity:
  • Originality
  • Flexibility
  • Elaboration
  • Fluency
• Creativity imparts a Win/Win situation

Convergent and Divergent Thinking Techniques

• The Left and Right Brain
• Convergent thinking techniques
• Divergent thinking techniques

• Combining divergent abd convergent thinking

Creative Thinking Techniques: Your Creative Spectrum

• Compare and Combine
• Risk taking
• Expand and shrink
• Ask "what's goof" and "what if"
• Transform your viewpoint
• In another sequence
• Visit other places
• Incubate
• Trigger concepts
• Youth's advantage

Establishing A Creative Workplace

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