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The report describes about creativity, provides characteristics of creativity.
CREATIVITY
DR. M. C. AGARWAL
DEFINITION
“The ability to produce novel and useful ideas” -T. M. Amabile. These are ideas that are different from what’s been done what s before but that are appropriate to the problem or opportunity presented. Creative ti it is C ti activity i combining of old or new id bi i f ld ideas t f to form a new combination, which will better satisfy a need. Creativity is breaking habits, combating complacency y g g y and striving for originality, change and innovation.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CREATIVITY
It is an act b. It is conscious and voluntary y c. Ideas need not be “new” d. d Need must exist
a.
CREATIVITY
A study on creativity of 461 men and women found that fewer than 1% were exceptionally creative But 10 % were creative. highly creative and about 60 % were somewhat creative This suggests that creative. most of us have creative potential; we just need to learn to unleash it – it. C.G.Morris.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
Three basic components: p 1. Expertise: It is the foundation for all creative Expertise: work. Any task requires certain talents, knowledge, or skills. Th k l d kill These are raw material of i l f creativity. The potential for creativity is enhanced when individuals have abilities abilities, knowledge, proficiencies, and similar expertise in their field of endeavor. For example, you would not expect someone with a minimal ld t t ith i i l knowledge of programming to be very creative as software e g ee so t a e engineer.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
2.
CreativeCreative-thinking skills: This encompasses personality characteristics associated with creativity, the ability to use y, y analogies, and the talent to see the familiar in a different light. Some people have developed their creative skills because they are able to see problems in a new way. They are able to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
3. Intrinsic task motivation: motivation: This is the desire to work on something because it is interesting, involving, exciting, satisfying, or g, g, g, y g, personally challenging. This motivational component is what turns creativity potential into actual creative ideas. It determines the extent to which individuals fully engage their expertise and creative skills Creative people often love skills. their work, to the point of seeming obsession.
STAGES OF CREATVITY AT WORK
Four stages: 1. Exploring – Answers to questions 2. I Inventory – B ki out of tradition t Breaking t f t diti 3. Choosing – Selecting an idea to implement 4. Implementing – put an idea to p p g p practice
COMMON ATTRIBUTE OF CREATIVE PEOPLE
Insatiable Curiosity : Taking interest in a large variety of topics with a searching attitude Commitment to experiment, risk taking g and willingness to learn from mistakes Use of all senses, especially sight, as a g g p means to gain knowledge and experience Willingness to deal with ambiguity, p paradox and uncertainty y
COMMON ATTRIBUTES ….Contd. Contd
Development of a balance between logic and imagination – ‘whole brain’ thinking Recognition of interdependence of things for holistic thinking Originality thinking l O i i lit or thi ki along new unorthodox lines Perseverance and persistence to take an idea through to its logical conclusion
OBSTACLES TO CREATIVE THINKING
Three different types of blocks: yp 1. Perceptual blocks – mental set or predisposition a) Difficulty in isolating the problem b) Narrowing the problem too much c) Inability to define terms d) Failure to use all senses e) Diffi l i seeing remote relationships ) Difficulty in i l i hi f) Difficulty in not investigating the obvious g) F il ) Failure t di ti to distinguish b t i h between cause and d effect
OBSTACLES ……..Contd. Contd
2. Cultural Blocks : a) C f ) Conform t an adopted pattern to d t d tt b) Judging rights and wrongs c) Overemphasis on competition or on cooperation d) Too much faith in statistics e) Difficulties arising from overgeneralization f) Too much faith in reason and logic g) Tendency to follow all or none attitudes h) Too much or too little knowledge in the field of your work i) Belief that indulging in fantasy is worthless
OBSTACLES ……..Contd. Contd
3. Emotional blocks: a) Fear of making a mistake b) Grabbing the first idea that comes along c) Rigidity of thinking d) Over motivation to succeed quickly e) Pathological desire for security f) Fear of supervisors and distrust of colleagues and subordinates g) Lack of drive to carry a problem through to completion h) Lack of drive in putting a solution to work
PROMOTING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
A.
Training people to be creative: gp p 1. Anyone can develop the skills to be creative g p y p 2. Allowing employees to be open to new ideas. Send them for “thinking expeditions” 3. take time to understand the problem 4. Teach employees various tactics for divergent thinking 5. Help them identify basic elements of a problem and systematically combining them in different ways
PROMOTING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
B. Developing creative work environments p g 1. Providing autonomy 2. Allow ideas to cross pollinate 3. Make jobs intrinsically interesting 3 M k j b i i i ll i i 4. Set creative goals 5. Support creativity at high organizational 5 levels by encouraging to take risk 6 a e u 6. Have fun : fun o t e job is po e u incentive u on the s powerful ce t e 7. Promote diversity : different background bound to think differently
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The report describes about creativity, provides characteristics of creativity.
CREATIVITY
DR. M. C. AGARWAL
DEFINITION
“The ability to produce novel and useful ideas” -T. M. Amabile. These are ideas that are different from what’s been done what s before but that are appropriate to the problem or opportunity presented. Creative ti it is C ti activity i combining of old or new id bi i f ld ideas t f to form a new combination, which will better satisfy a need. Creativity is breaking habits, combating complacency y g g y and striving for originality, change and innovation.
CHARACTERISTICS OF CREATIVITY
It is an act b. It is conscious and voluntary y c. Ideas need not be “new” d. d Need must exist
a.
CREATIVITY
A study on creativity of 461 men and women found that fewer than 1% were exceptionally creative But 10 % were creative. highly creative and about 60 % were somewhat creative This suggests that creative. most of us have creative potential; we just need to learn to unleash it – it. C.G.Morris.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
Three basic components: p 1. Expertise: It is the foundation for all creative Expertise: work. Any task requires certain talents, knowledge, or skills. Th k l d kill These are raw material of i l f creativity. The potential for creativity is enhanced when individuals have abilities abilities, knowledge, proficiencies, and similar expertise in their field of endeavor. For example, you would not expect someone with a minimal ld t t ith i i l knowledge of programming to be very creative as software e g ee so t a e engineer.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
2.
CreativeCreative-thinking skills: This encompasses personality characteristics associated with creativity, the ability to use y, y analogies, and the talent to see the familiar in a different light. Some people have developed their creative skills because they are able to see problems in a new way. They are able to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
COMPONENTS OF CREATIVITY
3. Intrinsic task motivation: motivation: This is the desire to work on something because it is interesting, involving, exciting, satisfying, or g, g, g, y g, personally challenging. This motivational component is what turns creativity potential into actual creative ideas. It determines the extent to which individuals fully engage their expertise and creative skills Creative people often love skills. their work, to the point of seeming obsession.
STAGES OF CREATVITY AT WORK
Four stages: 1. Exploring – Answers to questions 2. I Inventory – B ki out of tradition t Breaking t f t diti 3. Choosing – Selecting an idea to implement 4. Implementing – put an idea to p p g p practice
COMMON ATTRIBUTE OF CREATIVE PEOPLE
Insatiable Curiosity : Taking interest in a large variety of topics with a searching attitude Commitment to experiment, risk taking g and willingness to learn from mistakes Use of all senses, especially sight, as a g g p means to gain knowledge and experience Willingness to deal with ambiguity, p paradox and uncertainty y
COMMON ATTRIBUTES ….Contd. Contd
Development of a balance between logic and imagination – ‘whole brain’ thinking Recognition of interdependence of things for holistic thinking Originality thinking l O i i lit or thi ki along new unorthodox lines Perseverance and persistence to take an idea through to its logical conclusion
OBSTACLES TO CREATIVE THINKING
Three different types of blocks: yp 1. Perceptual blocks – mental set or predisposition a) Difficulty in isolating the problem b) Narrowing the problem too much c) Inability to define terms d) Failure to use all senses e) Diffi l i seeing remote relationships ) Difficulty in i l i hi f) Difficulty in not investigating the obvious g) F il ) Failure t di ti to distinguish b t i h between cause and d effect
OBSTACLES ……..Contd. Contd
2. Cultural Blocks : a) C f ) Conform t an adopted pattern to d t d tt b) Judging rights and wrongs c) Overemphasis on competition or on cooperation d) Too much faith in statistics e) Difficulties arising from overgeneralization f) Too much faith in reason and logic g) Tendency to follow all or none attitudes h) Too much or too little knowledge in the field of your work i) Belief that indulging in fantasy is worthless
OBSTACLES ……..Contd. Contd
3. Emotional blocks: a) Fear of making a mistake b) Grabbing the first idea that comes along c) Rigidity of thinking d) Over motivation to succeed quickly e) Pathological desire for security f) Fear of supervisors and distrust of colleagues and subordinates g) Lack of drive to carry a problem through to completion h) Lack of drive in putting a solution to work
PROMOTING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
A.
Training people to be creative: gp p 1. Anyone can develop the skills to be creative g p y p 2. Allowing employees to be open to new ideas. Send them for “thinking expeditions” 3. take time to understand the problem 4. Teach employees various tactics for divergent thinking 5. Help them identify basic elements of a problem and systematically combining them in different ways
PROMOTING CREATIVITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
B. Developing creative work environments p g 1. Providing autonomy 2. Allow ideas to cross pollinate 3. Make jobs intrinsically interesting 3 M k j b i i i ll i i 4. Set creative goals 5. Support creativity at high organizational 5 levels by encouraging to take risk 6 a e u 6. Have fun : fun o t e job is po e u incentive u on the s powerful ce t e 7. Promote diversity : different background bound to think differently
THANK YOU
doc_486664153.pdf