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Mastering Creative Problem Solving: A Practical Guide for Innovative Thinkers

Explore the world of creative problem-solving in a one-hour approach. Learn key concepts like divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and the CPS model. Enhance your creativity with exercises and tips for tomorrow.

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Mastering Creative Problem Solving: A Practical Guide for Innovative Thinkers

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  1. Creative Problem Solving:The One-Hour Approach(or You’ve Got to be Kidding!) Cynthia E. Rolfe May 18, 2007

  2. Creativity

  3. Exercise Creativity: My Definition

  4. Definitions • “Novelty that is useful.” - Stein • “The mental capacity to visualize, to foresee, and to generate ideas.” - Alex Osborn • C=fa(K,I,E) - Creativity equals the Function of open attitude, Knowledge, Imagination and Evaluation Skills - ~Dr. Ruth Noller

  5. Outside the Box Thinking To be creative you need to be able to view things from different perspectives. Creativity is linked to fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility and tolerance of ambiguity ~Robert E. Franken

  6. Exercise Visual Connections

  7. Four P’s Framework • Press – Climate / environment • Person – Characteristics • Product – Produces a creative outcome • Process – Through which people are creative . . . .

  8. Physical Office, conference room, etc. Shape Clutter Light Decor Schtuff Psychological Idea support Challenge Dynamism / Liveliness Playfulness / Humor Debates Risk-taking Trust/Openness Freedom Idea Time Conflicts PRESS

  9. PERSON • Personality • Cognitive • Biographical There are three types of characteristics that combine to produce creativeness: ~Davis – 1998

  10. PERSON: Personality Aware of Creativeness Original Needs time alone Artistic Curious Independent Thorough Attracted to Complexity Ethical Capacity for Fantasy Sense of Humor Energetic Emotional Risk-Taking Perceptive

  11. PERSON: Cognitive • Fluency • Flexibility • Originality • Elaboration • Sensitivity

  12. PRODUCT • Artifacts of thought • The tangible result of the creative process • Physical objective – article or patent • Theoretical system • Equation • New technique

  13. PROCESS: CPS • Identify Goal / Wish Challenge • Gather Data • Clarify the Problem • Generate Ideas • Select and Strengthen Solutions • Plan for Action

  14. Divergent Thinking Generating lots of ideas Convergent Thinking Judging options / making decisions Dynamic Balance ~Alex Osborn, Applied Imagination Two distinct kinds of thinking essential to being creative

  15. Divergent Thinking Guidelines • Defer judgment • Combine and build on ideas • Seek Wild ideas • Go for quantity

  16. Divergent Tools • Brainstorming • Stick-’Em Up* • Brainwriting • Forced connections • Visual Connections* • Ladder of Abstraction • SCAMPER

  17. Convergent Thinking • Be deliberate • Check your objectives • Improve your ideas • Be affirmative • Consider novelty

  18. Convergent Tools • Card Sort • Evaluation Matrix • Highlighting • I3 (Influence, Importance, Imagination) • PPCo (Pluses, Potentials, Concerns)

  19. The CPS Model (Creative Problem Solving) ~Osborn-Parnes Explore the Challenge Generate Ideas Prepare for Action

  20. Tips for Tomorrow • Carry a notepad . . . And use it! • Observe, observe, observe • Take time out to people watch • Ask questions • Of others . . . . But more importantly • Of YOURSELF!!! • Take time to breathe and enjoy!!!

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