This document discusses creativity and how it can lead to organizational success. It defines creativity as using intellectual skills like choosing, predicting, and interpreting to come up with novel ideas. Creativity benefits both individuals through improved well-being, and businesses by enabling innovation. The presentation aims to help participants understand how the creative mind works, increase personal creativity, foster creativity in organizations, and use creativity in teams.

1. Creativity
2013

2. Creativity and Organizational
Success
Climate Influences:
(12 of 24)
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3. 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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4. 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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5. What Is
Creativity?
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6. 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.
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7. What Is Creativity? (3 of 8)
Intellectual Skills:
 Humans have intellectual skills
that allow them to have
creativity . . .
– Choosing.
– Predicting.
– Interpreting.
– Translating.
– Recalling.
– Manipulating.
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8. 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.
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9. 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.
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10. What Is Creativity? (7 of 8)
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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11. What Is Creativity? (8 of 8)
Creativity Benefits:
 Self Confidence.
 Reduced Stress.
 Inner Peace.
 Better control over your life.
 Satisfaction.
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12. Creativity and Business (3 of 3)
 Creativity is needed in business
for finding new ways of:
– Making new products.
– Strengthening the business.
– Lessening weaknesses in the
business.
– Innovating.
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13. Creativity Myths (3 of 3)
 Being creative is easy.
– Being creative is hard work. It takes
practice and does not just happen.
 Only creative people can have
creative ideas.
– Everyone can be creative because
different perspectives come from all
walks of life, and everyone has
different experiences.
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14. How The
Creative Mind
Works
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15. Creative People
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defining creativity, 11 slides on how the creative mind
works, 9 slides defining creative people, 4 slides on
the process of creativity, 19 slides on increasing your
personal creativity, 22 slides on creativity and
organizational success, 20 slides on fostering
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