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Creativity
| Brainstorming Exercise: Relocation |
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::  :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving, Body Language, Emotional Intelligence
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You can use this exercise to get a group of people practice brainstorming and participate in constructive discussions. Delegates will go through a case study which can be applicable to just about anyone while still creating complex challenges. This exercise is also flexible in the choice of brainstorming method used or alternatively you can leave it to the delegates to decide. For example, you can use this exercise after explaining a particular brainstorming method such as mind mapping, six hats, Delphi method, etc., and then evaluate the performance of the delegates based on what you have discussed in the course. This exercise is ideal if all delegates are from the same organisation, though you can also use it when delegates are not from the same place.
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| Creativity Exercise: Idea Generation |
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:: :: Exercises, Communication Skills, Creativity
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This is a fun interactive exercise which encourages delegates to become more creative when generating ideas or solutions. In particular, it helps the delegates to understand the nature of random thinking in creative tasks and learn how to exploit it. This activity also works well as a team building exercise as it enables participants to work together in achieving results.
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| Creativity Exercise: The Future of Technology |
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::  :: Exercises, Creativity
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The purpose of this exercise is to get the delegates think creatively about the future of technology. Invariably, people are affected by technology and many great ideas originate from people who are not necessarily working on the technical aspects of a new domain, but those who might simply see a need for something and think why a particular service or product has not already been made.
This creativity process benefits companies to become more innovative as they can use all their staff’s brain pool to get creative ideas.
This exercise is by design rather general. Based on your own specific domain you can focus the exercise on specific topics.
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| How to Come Up With More Creative Ideas |
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::  :: Articles, Creativity, Problem Solving
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In today’s competitive world, coming up with creative ideas sooner than your competitor can make all the difference between success and failure. However, creativity is not something that you can force people into or expect them to suddenly become creative by sheer will power.
Instead, creativity seems to be highly dependant on the state of your mind. It is about your brain. If you can provide a suitable environment for your brain, it can deliver many novel ideas rather quickly. On the other hand, a tired or stressed mind is almost useless for anything creative as if it can’t be set free.
Hence, to become creative you should simply focus on setting up your environment and adopt your behaviour in such a way to maximise your chances of success.
This article provides a series of guidelines you can use to become more creative.
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| Futures Wheel |
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:: :: Exercises, Creativity, Problem Solving
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In this exercise, delegates will learn how to use futures wheel to perform a structured brainstorming to predict the future of a specific topic or systematically capture the effect of various future developments on each other.
The method is a simple yet powerful visual technique that is widely used by people involved in understanding the consequences of change or development.
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| Creativity Exercise: Expand and Shrink |
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:: :: Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Decision Making, Problem Solving
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When engaged in a brainstorming session on productivity, you want to maximise your search efficiency in order to systematically explore all areas and get the best from the time spend on the problem. A great way to do this is to expand and shrink the problem so you can come up with new ideas, get rid of the bad ideas and move forward.
Effectively, you can use the following 5 techniques:
- Expand. Expand the problem by thinking of new associations on all directions.
- Reduce. Reduce the scope.
- Reverse. Come up with something opposite to explore new avenues.
- Eliminate. Remove those ideas that don’t make any sense to reduce your search space and increase the efficiency of your brainstorming. After all, you can’t spend forever on this topic so you need to setup boundaries.
The following exercise helps the delegates to use this method.
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| Freeform Creativity Exercise |
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:: :: Exercises, Team Building , Creativity, Exercises for Kids, Presentation Skills
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Some people believe that they are not creative. The belief comes to define their attitude towards any problem and can limit their capability irrespective of their creative ability. Almost everyone is creative and uses that creativity on a daily basis in everyday tasks such as cooking, rearranging furniture, professional organisational skills, report writing and so on. Unfortunately, they may not see these activities as creative. It is a good idea to push these individuals into classic creative tasks to show them that they can be just as creative as others if they want to. Once their self-limiting attitude is corrected, their confidence is increases and they can start to see their own talent. The viscous cycle can be broken.
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