The document discusses unleashing creativity to generate ideas and solutions. It provides an overview of creative thinking techniques like breaking paradigms, drawing outside the lines, and warm-up exercises. It asserts that everyone has the capacity to be creative and lists traits of creative people like being curious, flexible thinkers who question assumptions.
this is the COMPLETE presentation as I did it on Thursday at ACRE on October 13th based upon doing it for the Education Conference once and once for ACRE on Wendesday.
It is expanded over the other two versions
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This document discusses developing communities and leadership skills within organizations. It covers topics like coordinating, communicating, connecting, collaborating, and creating change. It also discusses studying famous leaders to improve leadership abilities and close the "leader gap". The document emphasizes that great leaders were human beings who had weaknesses and failures.
The document discusses strategies for promoting creativity in engineering and science fields. It provides quotes from innovators emphasizing the importance of creativity. It also lists traits of creative thinkers, thinking tools to overcome blocks, and ways organizations can support creativity through programs, rewards, and dedicated spaces. The overall message is that creativity can be learned and cultivated through intentional practices.
This is my Creativity Comes from the Heart presentation at both the 17th ACRE and 6th Creativity in Education Conferences held at Klein Kariba resort near Bela Bela, Limpopo Province 90 km north of Pretoria.
This document discusses creative thinking and ways to enhance creativity. It explores who might be considered creative based on certain traits like fluency, flexibility, elaboration and originality. These traits are seen as learnable by all. The document also provides warm-up exercises and examples of what some companies do to support creativity, though it notes most do not do so systematically. The goal of exercises is to loosen paradigms and encourage new perspectives.
The document contains a long list of words related to beliefs, opinions, principles, and perspectives repeated multiple times. It also includes lists of names of creative individuals and architects. There are warm-up exercises presented without descriptions or context. The overall content is difficult to summarize concisely due to the repetitive and disconnected nature of the information provided.
The document discusses turning offices into creative communities or "orchestras" through developing employees' creative thinking abilities. It introduces the "Creative Solution Generating Process" which involves collecting a challenge, examining it, generating ideas using creative thinking tools, narrowing ideas down to the best one, and then gathering resources to implement it. A variety of creative thinking tools and techniques are presented, such as brainstorming, forced relationships, checklisting using SCAMPER, and divergent thinking exercises. The overall message is that offices can foster creativity by encouraging creative problem solving among employees.
Being creative is important for success as a virtual assistant. The document discusses 32 traits of creative people and provides examples of creative thinking techniques like brainstorming, forced relationships, and SCAMPER that can help virtual assistants develop their creativity. It emphasizes that creativity is a choice and encourages readers to choose to be creative in their work.
This presentation was shown at 2011 Mindcamp at Cedar Glen YMCA Camp.
Our lives are full of stories. Yet we seldom use them at work or in our classrooms often enough.
The document discusses different personality styles - Meditative, Intuitive, Directive, and Negotiative - and how people with different styles may perceive themselves and others. It provides brief descriptions of each style's characteristics and thinking preferences. People tend to see those most like themselves accurately, while seeing those most different in more contrasting or contradictory terms.
The document discusses unleashing creativity to generate ideas and solutions. It encourages breaking paradigms and thinking outside the box. Various creative thinking techniques and warm-up exercises are presented to help loosen mindsets and encourage looking at problems from different perspectives. The document argues that creativity is inherent in all people and provides a list of traits often seen in creative individuals.
The document discusses unleashing creativity by breaking paradigms and thinking outside the box. It encourages becoming more childlike to re-spark creativity, providing examples like connecting 9 dots with 4 lines or less. Warm-up exercises are suggested to get the creative juices flowing, such as interpreting random letters as the start of words. The overall message is that generating new ideas requires breaking traditional rules and patterns of thought.
This is the slide presentation for my Cartooning session for the 6th Creativity in Education conference held at Klein Kariba resort near Bela Bela, Limpopo Province 90 km north of Pretoria.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and adaptable.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and dependable, following rules.
It provides short descriptions of each profile and how people with different styles may see themselves and each other.
To be an effective professor today, creativity is essential to prepare students for the 21st century workforce. The document discusses that all people are born with creative traits, and provides 32 traits of creative individuals. It also presents various creative thinking techniques professors can use to develop their own creativity and teach creative thinking to students, such as brainstorming, brainwriting, and forced relationships. The overarching message is that creativity is a choice, and professors should choose to incorporate creative thinking into their teaching.
presentation prepared for the 17th ACRE with its theme in 2011 of THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF CREATIVITY. I chose to focus on at least "8 Different HEARTS of Creativity" - focuses, passions, approaches to what we commit to in our lives.
The document discusses ways to increase creativity through various exercises and techniques. It suggests that creativity can be sparked by becoming more childlike and playful in our thinking. Various warm-up exercises are presented to help people look at problems from different perspectives and think more divergently. The document also discusses how most people are born with the capacity for creativity but that it tends to decrease as we progress through school and life unless consciously nurtured.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and adaptable.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and dependable, following rules.
It provides short descriptions of each profile and how people with different styles may see themselves and each other.
The document provides information about Robert Alan Black, who has had 47 jobs over 51 years in fields such as architecture, teaching, and consulting. It discusses creativity and includes exercises and tools to help people think more creatively, such as coming up with other uses for common objects, changing perspectives, and using techniques like SCAMPER. The document encourages choosing creativity in daily life and breaking out of traditional ways of thinking.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and emotional.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and works according to rules.
It provides descriptions of how each style sees themselves and others, with meditatives seeing intuitives as out of touch with reality and intuitives seeing meditatives as too factual.
The document discusses various creative thinking tools and techniques that can be used individually or in groups, including checklists, forced relationships, idea grids, PCP (Pluses/Concerns/Potentials), hits and misses, doting and ranking, and value grids. It also discusses how to spread creative thinking throughout an organization using SPREAD, which stands for physical, mental, emotional and social approaches.
This document introduces Robert Alan Black and his work in creative thinking and consulting. It provides information about his background and qualifications, which include volunteering with gifted students, traveling the world since 1998, and holding positions such as licensed architect, interior designer, college professor, and creative thinking consultant. The document also shares various creative thinking tools and techniques developed by Black to help spark new ideas.
The document describes Model Q, which is a system for teaching and leadership that combines approaches, domains, delivery styles, teaching/learning styles, creative thinking tools, thinking skills, and learning outcomes. It includes 4 styles of thinking, 3 domains of teaching/learning (mental, intellectual, physical/kinesthetic, emotional/social/affective), 2 primary delivery methods (teacher/student led), and creative thinking tools matched to thinking styles to develop convergent and divergent thinking skills and achieve desired learning experiences and outcomes.
The document contains a long list of words related to beliefs, opinions, principles, and perspectives repeated multiple times. It also includes lists of names of creative individuals and architects. There are warm-up exercises presented without descriptions or context. The overall content is difficult to summarize concisely due to the repetitive and disconnected nature of the information provided.
The document discusses turning offices into creative communities or "orchestras" through developing employees' creative thinking abilities. It introduces the "Creative Solution Generating Process" which involves collecting a challenge, examining it, generating ideas using creative thinking tools, narrowing ideas down to the best one, and then gathering resources to implement it. A variety of creative thinking tools and techniques are presented, such as brainstorming, forced relationships, checklisting using SCAMPER, and divergent thinking exercises. The overall message is that offices can foster creativity by encouraging creative problem solving among employees.
Being creative is important for success as a virtual assistant. The document discusses 32 traits of creative people and provides examples of creative thinking techniques like brainstorming, forced relationships, and SCAMPER that can help virtual assistants develop their creativity. It emphasizes that creativity is a choice and encourages readers to choose to be creative in their work.
This presentation was shown at 2011 Mindcamp at Cedar Glen YMCA Camp.
Our lives are full of stories. Yet we seldom use them at work or in our classrooms often enough.
The document discusses different personality styles - Meditative, Intuitive, Directive, and Negotiative - and how people with different styles may perceive themselves and others. It provides brief descriptions of each style's characteristics and thinking preferences. People tend to see those most like themselves accurately, while seeing those most different in more contrasting or contradictory terms.
The document discusses unleashing creativity to generate ideas and solutions. It encourages breaking paradigms and thinking outside the box. Various creative thinking techniques and warm-up exercises are presented to help loosen mindsets and encourage looking at problems from different perspectives. The document argues that creativity is inherent in all people and provides a list of traits often seen in creative individuals.
The document discusses unleashing creativity by breaking paradigms and thinking outside the box. It encourages becoming more childlike to re-spark creativity, providing examples like connecting 9 dots with 4 lines or less. Warm-up exercises are suggested to get the creative juices flowing, such as interpreting random letters as the start of words. The overall message is that generating new ideas requires breaking traditional rules and patterns of thought.
This is the slide presentation for my Cartooning session for the 6th Creativity in Education conference held at Klein Kariba resort near Bela Bela, Limpopo Province 90 km north of Pretoria.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and adaptable.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and dependable, following rules.
It provides short descriptions of each profile and how people with different styles may see themselves and each other.
To be an effective professor today, creativity is essential to prepare students for the 21st century workforce. The document discusses that all people are born with creative traits, and provides 32 traits of creative individuals. It also presents various creative thinking techniques professors can use to develop their own creativity and teach creative thinking to students, such as brainstorming, brainwriting, and forced relationships. The overarching message is that creativity is a choice, and professors should choose to incorporate creative thinking into their teaching.
presentation prepared for the 17th ACRE with its theme in 2011 of THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF CREATIVITY. I chose to focus on at least "8 Different HEARTS of Creativity" - focuses, passions, approaches to what we commit to in our lives.
The document discusses ways to increase creativity through various exercises and techniques. It suggests that creativity can be sparked by becoming more childlike and playful in our thinking. Various warm-up exercises are presented to help people look at problems from different perspectives and think more divergently. The document also discusses how most people are born with the capacity for creativity but that it tends to decrease as we progress through school and life unless consciously nurtured.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and adaptable.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and dependable, following rules.
It provides short descriptions of each profile and how people with different styles may see themselves and each other.
The document provides information about Robert Alan Black, who has had 47 jobs over 51 years in fields such as architecture, teaching, and consulting. It discusses creativity and includes exercises and tools to help people think more creatively, such as coming up with other uses for common objects, changing perspectives, and using techniques like SCAMPER. The document encourages choosing creativity in daily life and breaking out of traditional ways of thinking.
This document discusses different thinking styles and creativity profiles:
- Rational/Meditative style uses facts, thinks logically and works step-by-step.
- Exploratory/Intuitive style uses imagination and sees patterns quickly, taking risks.
- Consensual/Negotiative style works with people and is friendly, loyal and emotional.
- Systematic/Directive style is practical, organized and works according to rules.
It provides descriptions of how each style sees themselves and others, with meditatives seeing intuitives as out of touch with reality and intuitives seeing meditatives as too factual.
The document discusses various creative thinking tools and techniques that can be used individually or in groups, including checklists, forced relationships, idea grids, PCP (Pluses/Concerns/Potentials), hits and misses, doting and ranking, and value grids. It also discusses how to spread creative thinking throughout an organization using SPREAD, which stands for physical, mental, emotional and social approaches.
This document introduces Robert Alan Black and his work in creative thinking and consulting. It provides information about his background and qualifications, which include volunteering with gifted students, traveling the world since 1998, and holding positions such as licensed architect, interior designer, college professor, and creative thinking consultant. The document also shares various creative thinking tools and techniques developed by Black to help spark new ideas.
The document describes Model Q, which is a system for teaching and leadership that combines approaches, domains, delivery styles, teaching/learning styles, creative thinking tools, thinking skills, and learning outcomes. It includes 4 styles of thinking, 3 domains of teaching/learning (mental, intellectual, physical/kinesthetic, emotional/social/affective), 2 primary delivery methods (teacher/student led), and creative thinking tools matched to thinking styles to develop convergent and divergent thinking skills and achieve desired learning experiences and outcomes.