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Slide 2: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 2
Slide 3: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 3
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Slide 5: www.ReadySetPresent.com Definition Webster’s Dictionary: Artistic or intellectual inventiveness Creativity involves the generation of new ideas Brings into existence something new. Page 5
Slide 6: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 6
Slide 7: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 7
Slide 8: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 8
Slide 9: www.ReadySetPresent.com What Is Creativity? (4 of 8) Intellectual Skills: Humans have intellectual skills that allow them to have creativity . . .  Choosing  Predicting  Interpreting  Translating  Recalling  Manipulating Page 9
Slide 10: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 10
Slide 11: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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. Page 11
Slide 12: www.ReadySetPresent.com 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 Page 12
Slide 13: www.ReadySetPresent.com What Is Creativity? (8 of 9) Creativity can come in different forms . . .  Scientific: inventions or medical cures.  Artistic/Musical: beautiful paintings, sculptures, or songs. and poems.  Creative Writing: novels, short stories, Page 13
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