Hide Notes 

Slide 1: Creativity
Slide 2: 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.   www.readysetpresent.com Page 2
Slide 3: 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.   www.readysetpresent.com Page 3
Slide 4: A Challenge Please write a one sentence definition of Creativity. www.readysetpresent.com Page 4
Slide 5: Definition  Webster’s Dictionary: Artistic or intellectual inventiveness. Creativity involves the generation of new ideas. Brings into existence something new.   www.readysetpresent.com Page 5
Slide 6: What Is Creativity? www.readysetpresent.com Page 6
Slide 7: What Is Creativity?  (1 of 8) 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. www.readysetpresent.com Page 7
Slide 8: What Is Creativity?  (2 of 8) Social Factors: – Creativity is fostered by an environment. – Creativity must be valued by a community. – Creativity is shaped by those who evaluate it. www.readysetpresent.com Page 8
Slide 9: What Is Creativity? Intellectual Skills:  (3 of 8) Humans have intellectual skills that allow them to have creativity . . . – Choosing. – Predicting. – Interpreting. – Translating. – Recalling. – Manipulating. www.readysetpresent.com Page 9
Slide 10: What Is Creativity?  (4 of 8) 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. www.readysetpresent.com Page 10  
Slide 11: What Is Creativity?  (5 of 8) 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.   www.readysetpresent.com Page 11
Slide 12: What Is Creativity? (6 of 8) 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. www.readysetpresent.com Page 12
Slide 13: What Is Creativity? (7 of 8) Creativity can come in different forms . . . Scientific: cures. inventions or medical Artistic/Musical: Creative beautiful paintings, sculptures, or songs. Writing: novels, short stories, and poems. www.readysetpresent.com Page 13
Slide 14: What Is Creativity? Creativity Benefits:      (8 of 8) Self Confidence. Reduced Stress. Inner Peace. Better control over your life. Satisfaction. www.readysetpresent.com Page 14
Slide 15: How The Creative Mind Works www.readysetpresent.com Page 15
Slide 16: Creative People www.readysetpresent.com Page 16
Slide 17: What is your next step? www.readysetpresent.com Page 17
Slide 18: Download “Creativity” PowerPoint presentation at ReadySetPresent.com 159 slides include: understanding creativity as a human skill using mini systems and processes, the benefits of creativity, left and right brain thinking, blocks to creativity, organizational success through creativity, over techniques, methods, examples and exercises. The definition of creativity, how creative mind works, the process of creativity, creative people and their qualities. You will discover connection between creativity and organizational success and ways to increase your personal creativity, unique information about fostering organizational creativity, management and group creativity as well as creativity and the future plus much more. Royalty Free – Use Them Over and Over Again. www.readysetpresent.com Page 18