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Kick-Start Your Creativity

Kick-Start Your Creativity. Creativity Workshop. Purpose To teach you that creativity can be learned To encourage you to innovate “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity” - Michael Porter Goals To teach you about the creative process

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Kick-Start Your Creativity

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  1. Kick-Start Your Creativity

  2. Creativity Workshop • Purpose • To teach you that creativity can be learned • To encourage you to innovate • “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity” - Michael Porter • Goals • To teach you about the creative process • To teach you some creativity-enhancing techniques

  3. “May the Force Be With You…Always” What is the Force?

  4. Creativity • Adams: “The combination of seemingly disparate parts into a functioning, useful whole.” • Picasso: “Every act of creation is an act of destruction” and “art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.” • Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” • Exercise (animals)

  5. Three Creativity Perspectives • The Creative Person • The Creative Product • The Creative Process • We’ll focus on the process, which can be learned

  6. Three Creativity Elements • Expertise: In-depth knowledge about a field • Creative Skills: Problem-solving skills, creative process skills • Intrinsic Task Motivation: Intrinsic rewards: Love of the work, the process involved, not extrinsic reward such as money, awards * * Teresa Amabile, Creativity in Context, Westview Press, 1996

  7. Four Roles Of The Creative Process (von Oech) * • The Explorer • Gathers information, explores for knowledge in new places. • The Artist • Experiments with new approaches, combinations. • Follows intuition, breaks rules, brainstorms, takes risks. * A Kick in the Seat of the Pants, Roger von Oech, Perennial Library, New York, 1986.

  8. Four Roles Of The Creative Process (von Oech) • The Judge • Evaluates ideas and solutions, critically weighs evidence. • The Warrior • Takes the offensive, fights for implementation, has courage.

  9. The Explorer • Know what the objective is. • Look in other fields. • Camouflage came from cubist art (Picasso & Braque). • Unbreakable code in WWII came from the Navajo language. • Look for lots of ideas. • Look behind the first right answer. • “How do you stop a fish from smelling?”

  10. The Explorer • Don’t overlook things right in front of you. • Look or ideas in places you’ve been avoiding. • The drunkard’s search • Use Forcing Mechanisms.

  11. Forcing Mechanisms • Matrix • Trigger concepts • Creative Whack Pack • Random words from a book • Brainstorming • See Rules for Brainstorming • Write everything down

  12. The Artist • Adapt • Imagine (“What if?”) • Reverse (backward, upside down) • Connect • Compare (metaphors, literature, music, art, sports, warfare, gardening) • Parody • Incubate

  13. The Judge • Does it meet the objective? • Positives? • Negatives? • Probability for success? • Downside? • Upside?

  14. The Judge • Timing? • Deadlines? • Biases? (assumptions) • Blind Spots?

  15. The Warrior • Be bold. • Develop a strategy. • What are the consequences of failure? • Get started immediately? • Sell it. • Persistence • Learn from victories and defeats.

  16. Creativity Blocks • Accepting conventional wisdom • Not taking time to investigate or elaborate • Seeking only to satisfy the perceived needs of bosses • Having tunnel vision, compartmentalizing problems • Looking for quick, yes-no answers

  17. Creativity Blocks • Fearing rejection of ideas • Being afraid of making mistakes • Expecting others to be creative • Being unwilling to question others • Being unwilling to accept others’ input • Being unwilling to collaborate • Darwin: “...those who learned to collaborate and improvise...prevailed.”

  18. Creativity Enhancers • Assume every experience can stimulate personal growth. • Look for positives, growth, opportunities: Chinese character, “crisis.” • Clearly visualize a positive outcome. • Don’t react too quickly. Give yourself time (incubation), have patience.

  19. Methods For Killing Creativity • Evaluation • Fear of evaluation kills the love of creative activity. • Surveillance • Looking over creative people’s shoulder or policing them de-motivates them.

  20. Methods For Killing Creativity • Reward • Extrinsic rewards lower motivation. • Reward creative people with autonomy, the opportunity to learn. • Competition • Win-lose competition kills creativity. • In a competitive environment, people think about how not to lose instead of how to win.

  21. Methods For Killing Creativity • Restricted Choice • Making choices for creative people or severely limiting their options lowers creative output. • Extrinsic Orientation • External rewards such as prizes and money hurt creativity. • Creative people love the intrinsic rewards of doing the job.

  22. Resources • “How To Manage Creative People” • www.charleswarner.us/indexppr.html • Creative Whack Pack cards: • http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Whack-Pack-Roger-Oech/dp/0880793589/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202620854&sr=8-1 • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink, Riverhead Books, New York, 2009.

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