Ask a special person to say "can not" why something would not work and you will hear the reasons more "creative" imaginable. Apparently, creativity is not necessarily positive pro.
Yet here we propose to introduce techniques for the development of creative thinking for use proactive. Here are some:
Create a climate for creativity
Tell your team that has this or that problem and solution you are looking for. Do not forget that solutions can appear where least expected, so much so that creative solutions often come from the company's management team.
Encourage the creativity of others
Always express public recognition to those who offer their creative ideas, whether they worked or not. This is essential to encourage other initiatives.
When you bring a problem for you to solve, before submitting a response accustomed to asking, "What do you think needs to be done in this case?"
Be receptive to ideas, even apparently absurd. If someone 120 years ago we would have raised the idea of creating a device that fly through the skies even be heavier than air, carrying 300 people and travel at a speed faster than sound, probably would have said that this was a absurd idea ... Is better not to dismiss ideas!
Mount in your company a PROGRAM FOR THE INCUBATION OF IDEAS.
I use the term "incubation" in order not to discard ideas but put them, ripen, grow, merge and manipulate them until they germinate. The program conditions for the incubation of ideas are open to your creativity.
It is a valuable contribution to the initiative of people and I guarantee that impacts the culture and ability to plan for the company.
Eliminate sentences killer of creativity.
Identify which are the killer phrases and hear around them. Replace with phrases that promote creativity: "Every problem has a solution," "Maybe. Only lack discover how, "" Everything can improve "
"We are doing well and we can improve it and others of their own.
Challenge the creativity of their team. Raise a culture of creativity in your organization. Ask questions that "require" people to question.
I share this experience: After explaining some techniques in the Creativity Workshop we carried out in a five star hotel, I proposed the following topic: "The hotel now offers an excellent service to customers.
What can we do to improve it without incurring the costs? "Even today I'm amazed at the quantity and quality of responses we got a motivated team in a friendly environment.
Do not marry the first idea
Do not settle for the first answer that comes to your head. Find alternatives. Write as many ideas as possible, without judging. Or better yet, plan to deliberately a minimum number of possible answers. At the end evaluate, add, extend, merge, disaggregate, mix, re-collect, assemble the best answer to the problem that needs solving.
The search for alternatives is undoubtedly one of the most effective techniques both for the development of creative thinking to find a solution.
As you know, lifting weights serves as preparation for a weightlifting competition and also to move a heavy desk. Similarly creativity training is useful for applications in various fields.
So train your creativity through games, dynamic and other useful resources for creativity in any field. There are many useful exercises to train your brain in search of alternatives.
For example, you travel by road. Suddenly, go to the side of the road to a family that includes medium-sized stones to throw them in the back of his truck. People passing by the road watching and wondering: Why collect these stones? Write a minimum of ten responses.
Convene meetings for the construction of creative ideas
Brainstorming sessions, also known as uncritical of ideas sessions are based on the principle of "trial postponed". To stimulate responses to a question without those answers are evaluated immediately.
The basic rules for a session uncritical ideas are:
- Any criticism is forbidden
- Every idea is welcome, though it seems wrong or absurd
- Gather as many ideas as possible
- The exhibits should be very short
- Associations of ideas are important in the process.
Curiously, many experts recommend making uncritical sessions with 10 or maximum twelve participants. I always wonder: Why? That is "to what is known for good". Group may achieve a richer supply of ideas, but I can attest that when this procedure is done individually also gives excellent results.
Do not let him escape ideas
Always have handy a recorder, a calendar, a pocket computer, a notebook or any other resource that allows you to save an idea.
Have not woken up at midnight with a brilliant response to a difficult problem? The next morning you have forgotten the idea and never captured by any means. Do not allow ideas to escape.
It is said that Mary G. Agnesi, one of the most prominent figures in the mathematics of the eighteenth century, often waking up at midnight with the answer to a problem that had been torturing. He wrote the solution and returned to bed.
Prepare to not let go of their ideas.
Consider the "opposite solution"
Often the "opposite solution is the answer you're looking for. An example of "opposite solution is the" distance learning "progressed today with the" virtual education ". Rather than expect the student to go to school, it is he who "reaches" the student.
The service of "home delivery" is another solution otherwise. To get the wine from the bottle usually pulled out the cork, but we could also get him, right?
Here is a problem that has been widely and answer:
In the Middle Ages a man of recognized quality was unjustly accused of murdering a woman. In fact, the real perpetrator was a very influential person in the kingdom and, therefore, from the outset sought a "scapegoat" to cover up the guilty. The man was taken to court and knowing that it would have little or no hope of escaping the terrible sentence of hanging. The judge, who had been bought, took care to give every appearance of a fair trial and the defendant said: "Knowing your reputation as a man of just and devout man of God, we will leave your fate in the hands of Him
In two separate papers write the words 'guilty' and 'innocent'. You will choose and so define your destiny, "Of course, had prepared two papers with the words 'guilty'. The judge ordered the man to take one of the folded papers. The room fell silent.
The question is: How could the man overcome the problem?
Let's skip the answer for you appeal to the art of looking the opposite solution.
Consult an "incompetent"
Discuss the problem you want solved by a competent person in an activity completely different from yours and have a suggestion. The more dissimilar your profession, occupation, hobbies, political affiliation, etc., The better.
Take advantage of your ability to understand things differently. We're doing much better when we work with brains from several different angles when we do it only with our own.
Also ask a child. It's great to discover the results of this suggestion. Firstly because you are forced to simplify the problem in order to explain and that's a benefit. Second, be surprised by the responses you get. Remember: Do not discard ideas. Collect alternatives.
Break routines
Breaking routines is an opportunity to see and do other things or the same things differently. It provides the opportunity for seeing the world through different eyes to our brain and expanded the horizon of possibilities.
Explore activities that regularly does. Change the type of reading. If you usually go to his office by car, go by bus or taxi and see the city like a tourist. Change the type of films that usually sees. If you are a regular viewer, television is no longer a few weeks and spend that time reading or other activity. Go eat at a vegetarian restaurant, read a book in the company, prepare a dinner with his son play a sport foreign to you.
In short, do things that usually do not. Allow yourself to see things from a perspective that is novel.
Everyone can practice techniques and habits to cultivate the development of creative thinking. He now has 10 suggestions for easy application in business and in life. You can begin to implement them or continue to ask: "WHY NOT happened to me?"
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