How do Creativity Facilitators Need to Behave? A checklist of sorts
Every so often for a break I clean out files. Here’s today’s find, a gem. Questions for people in helping roles to consider (adapted from Fundamentals of Counseling Shertzer and Stone, 1974 p.8). What if these are questions are for creativity facilitators as well. You think? Should they be? Can I behave in some way [...]
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How to Lead an Idea Session – from Buffalo State’s International Center for Studies in Creativity
Here’s a gem of a video showing step-by-step how to lead an idea generating session using two techniques: Brainstorming and Brainwriting. Watch it to pick up pointers to improve your practice. (It would be great for all creativity professionals to competently use these and other tools, just as, say, accountants globally use a balance sheet.) [...]
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Brainstorming – work or no? What’s it really all about?
Conversations about the efficacy of brainstorming can be tiresome when its meaning is understood, assumed and experienced uniquely from person to person; that is, when it’s definition is muddy the arguments keep the water murky.
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The Science of Creativity in 2013 – repost from BigThink
Sam McNerny’s BigThink blogpost is bolded for your reading ease. I appreciate the cursory overview and insights into what might be the future for the field. Would be great to hear from others about their predictions of where the study of creativity and methods used to evoke new ideas, new decisions and spur new actions [...]
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In a Brainstorming Quandary? Get over it and get on with generating ideas.
Just saw another newsletter on brainstorming because of our friend Jonathan Lehrer’s assertion that it’s dead. Can we please move on beyond the hyperbole? Here’s the scoop. Brainstorming describes a process of people generating ideas using a few rules. Ad exec Alex Osborn coined the term in a number of books, Your Creative Power: How [...]
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Looking to engage office creativity? Eliminate psychological harassment
Wonder why people aren’t engaged when asked for creative ideas ? Could be that there’s some psychological harassment going on. If people you work with behave as in the list below, you can bet that there are interpersonal factors that block to allow free thinking and new ideas. Make rude, degrading or offensive remarks Act [...]
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Facilitator or catalyst? Is there a difference when it comes to creativity and innovation?
I learned a facilitator is a ‘guide by the side, not a sage on the stage’ from my college professor and mentor the late Dr. Ruth B. Noller. We didn’t use the word catalyst to describe what we did at the International Center for Studies in Creativity in the 1970′s and ’80′s – no. Facilitator [...]
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Ethics and creativity. Related?
A study recently released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reports rich people are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour – cutting off motorists, lying in a negotiation and cheating to win a prize – than are their less wealthy counterparts. Researchers also found those [...]
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What's the big deal about creativity?
Let’s face it, people use their creativity everyday, even you. You create mash-ups, make new decisions, use your imagination, combine existing elements into new patterns and relationships and more, and not necessarily because you want to. As conditions continue to change more rapidly than ever you adapt, we all adapt. For example with the growth [...]
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Creativity Professionals: What's our limit?
After viewing the clip below, I started to wonder if Creativity Professionals have a duty to influence clients’ decision making with regards to the new ideas they choose from which to create new futures. If creativity is about using new ideas to make new decisions, and, its base comes from our innate human character to [...]
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