Creativity at the workplace document outlines numerous creative processes and discusses barriers to creativity. It describes several stages of the creative process proposed by theorists such as Wallas, Osborn, and Green. These models involve preparation, incubation, illumination, and verification stages. The document also examines cultural, psychological, and physiological barriers to creativity and discusses overcoming barriers through perception, emotion, instincts, habits, and being present. It emphasizes that everyone has the ability to be creative.
2. Creativity is the ability to see
relationship where none exist
Thomas Disch
3. Where the brain develops
its ability to IMAGE, so it develops
its thinking capacity, its perceptual
abilities, its memory, its creativity
and its confidence
Tony & Barry Buzan
4. Cultural programming can continue
for years and eventually operates at
the “unconscious” level. It can take
up to three generations for a culture
to change.
~ Ed Hall~
5. The illiterate of the year 2000 will
not be the individual who cannot
read and write, but the one who
cannot Learn, Unlearn and Relearn
~ Alvin Toffler ~
12. Uccello Process for Non-Stop Creativity
IMPLEMENT
DECIDE
EVALUATE
COLLECT
COMBINE
EXPERIMENT
NEW
IDEAS
INCUBATE
13. Four Stages of Creativity
• Graham Wallas, 1926
PREPARATION
VERIFICATION
INCUBATION
ILLUMINATION
14. Stages of Creative Thinking
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1st soft divergent
What if
Why not
Metaphor
Analogy
Breaking rules
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2nd hard convergent
Will it work?
Can we do it?
Does it fit in?
Who can help?
Suppose it fails?
15. Metaphorical Thinking
• Aristotle wrote that “the greatest thing by far
is to be the master of metaphor.”
• Metaphor is a mark of genius
• How is my job like driving a ferrari?
16. Analogy
• Comparison between one event or item and
something else that is similar
• Life is like a grapefruit because you just start
to enjoy it and it squirts you in the eye.
• Life is like….because…
18. Brainstorming
1. State the problem
2. Restate the problem --- How to…
3. Select basic restatement --- In how many
ways can we…
4. Warm-up
5. Brainstorm
6. Wildest idea
23. As military aircraft become more
complex, perhaps in the future
women rather than men will be
more likely to pass the aptitude and
performance test
SP Reid
25. Cultural programming can continue
for years and eventually operates at
the “unconscious” level. It can take
up to three generations for a culture
to change.
~ Ed Hall~
26. Possible Barriers (?)
• Culture
MORE Asian
We
MORE Western
I
Harmony
Rote learning
Authority
Hierarchical
Face
Respond when spoken
Assertiveness
Critical thinking
Egalitarian
Task
Self-esteem
Self-reliance
27. Conditionings
Social / Culture
• maintaining status quo
Family
• Parental authority
Religion
• Sin, right, wrong
Work place
• Procedures
40. If you wish to conquer,
first conquer yourself.
Chinese Proverb
41. Food for Thought
• The danger of training, where talents doesn’t
exist or is weak, is that we burn out before any
significant improvement shows. We also waste
time, energy and cost, and no matter how
good the training, at least we can only achieve
mediocracy. If we want mastery, we must train
where a natural talent already exists to a
strong degree
• Peter Shephard
42. Don’t try to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in
~ Buckingham and Coffman ~
