2. Objectives
Provide participants foundations and
general guidelines for how to
stimulate idea generation
Develop the ability to think
differently in terms of
viewing, analyzing and resolving a
problem, in a creative manner
Idea Generation
3. Blocks To Creativity
Fear of Failure
Allergy to Ambiguity
Touchiness
Conformity
Resource Myopia
Starved Sensibility
Rigidity
Idea Generation
4. Strategies for Unblocking
Awareness
Analysis & Diagnosis
Desire to Unblock
Help from Credible Source
Reward
Goal Setting
Idea Generation
5. Creative Generation
Break out of the Intelligence Trap
Create Space
Do something totally different
Challenge Assumption
Create a Power Group
Define the Problem
Brainstorm
Create Continuous Challenges
Idea Generation
6. Direction to How to Think
Expand your Perspective
Hone your Brain Power
Turbocharge the environment
Master the Conversation
Be a catalyst
Idea Generation
7. Recognizing Current Ideas
Dominant Ideas
Tethering Ideas
Polarizing Ideas
Boundaries
Assumptions
Idea Generation
8. Evaluation of an Idea
Whether the Idea would work at all
Whether it would be Practical
What about the Cost of
Implementing?
Whether the Idea is new
Idea Generation
10. Model of Creative Personality
Core traits to Creativity + Motivation to create - Fears
& disabilities that impede creativity
= Enduring potential for Lifelong creativity
Idea Generation
11. Environmental Stimulants of
Creativity
Stimulation
Nurturance
Role Model
Optimal Tension
Constructive Feedback
Learning Opportunities
Diversity of View points
Freedom with accountability for
excellence
Facilities for experimentation
Idea Generation
12. Emotional Connection and
Intuition
Champion moments of Silence
Begin developing Insight
Respect the language of Intuition
Suspend the Voice of Judgment
Ask Clear Question
Feel the Inevitable moments of Fear
and move through them
Expand your Empathy
Idea Generation
14. Summary
Escape from Cliches & fixed pattern
Challenge Assumptions
Generate Alternatives
Jump to new Ideas and then see
what next
Find new entry points from which to
move forward
Idea Generation
