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Program Objectives (1 of 2)
Describe what creativity is . . . Understand how the creative mind works. Increase skills to increase your personal creativity. How creativity leads to organizational success.
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Program Objectives (2 of 2)
Learn to foster organizational creativity. Learn to use creativity as a team/group. Learn how creativity will affect your future.
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A Challenge
Please write a One Sentence Definition of
CREATIVITY
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Definition
Websters Dictionary: Artistic or intellectual inventiveness Creativity involves the generation of new ideas Brings into existence something new.
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What Is Creativity? (1 of 9)
Describable and Satisfying:
Novel: unique, new, innovative, different, imaginative, non-typical, unusual. Useful: responds to a need, has some utility or value, answers a question. Understandable: not the result of chance, reproducible.
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What Is Creativity? (2 of 9)
Social Factors:
Creativity is fostered by an environment. Creativity must be valued by a community. Creativity is shaped by those who evaluate it.
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What Is Creativity? (3 of 9)
Creativity Needs:
Skill: Learned capacity or talent to carry out pre-determined results. Talent: Natural endowments of a person. Personality: Patterns of relatively enduring characteristics of human behavior.
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What Is Creativity? (4 of 8)
Intellectual Skills:
Humans have intellectual skills that allow them to have creativity . . .
Choosing Predicting Interpreting Translating Recalling Manipulating
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What Is Creativity? (5 of 9)
Choosing: To select from a number of possibilities and pick by preference. Predicting: To state, tell about, or make something known in advance, on the basis of special knowledge. Interpreting: To explain and understand the meaning of something and to conceive the significance of it.
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What Is Creativity? (6 of 9)
Translating: To transform something from one state to another. Recalling: To remember and bring back to mind a previous subject or situation. Manipulating: To handle, manage, or use (sometimes with skill) an object in a process or performance.
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What Is Creativity? (7 of 9)
Use Your Own Process: With these skills we are able to . . .
select knowledge and use it toward a specific goal. interpret communication and share it. remember previous knowledge and use it skillfully.
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What Is Creativity? (8 of 9)
Creativity can come in different forms . . . Scientific: inventions or medical cures. Artistic/Musical: beautiful paintings,
sculptures, or songs.
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