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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
Please write
write aa One
One Sentence
Sentence
Definition
Definition of
of
CREATIVITY
CREATIVITY

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Definition

Webster’s
Webster’sDictionary:
Dictionary:Artistic
Artisticor
or
intellectual
intellectualinventiveness
inventiveness
Creativity
Creativityinvolves
involvesthe
thegeneration
generationof
of
new
newideas
ideas
Brings
Bringsinto
intoexistence
existencesomething
somethingnew.
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.

Through novel, creativity is describable


and satisfying.

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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  Translating
 Predicting  Recalling
 Interpreting  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.
Use 1 or more of the 6 intellectual
skills to come up with a creative idea

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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.

 Creative Writing: novels, short stories,


and poems.

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