101 Activities For Teaching Creativity And Problem Solving

service focus on “holding” onto “hot” customers by identifying them and devoting resources to retaining them. In general, unrela ...

Creativity and Problem Solving 9 characterized by laughter and humor tend to generate more ideas than their less humorous and pl ...

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Chapter 2 Six Key Principles for Encouraging Creativity When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin ...

We will look at six major creative thinking principles in this chapter: 1. Separate Idea Generation from Evaluation Test assump ...

about the stimulus elements in the picture (that is, the lines and their relationship to one anoth- er). If we assume one config ...

Two men were camping in the wilderness when they were awakened one morn- ing by a large bear rummaging through their food supply ...

3. Avoid Patterned Thinking Try this little exercise: Fold your arms the way you normally would cross them. Note which hands are ...

this activity, you’ll be surprised at all you see. To break out of patterns, we must make a conscious effort. First become more ...

problem. Over time, most people find that the more they use a variety of activities, the easier it becomes to create new perspec ...

It violates professional standards. The board won’t like it. It’s outside my scope of responsibility. It conflicts with policy. ...

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To place our ideas, our dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss. To live is to risk ...

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Chapter 3 Linking Problems, Solutions, Individual and Group Activities B efore generating ideas, it is important to understand m ...

explanations. Because the idea generation activities in this book are divergent, Kepner and Tregoe’s definition doesn’t fit. A G ...

tee a new product home run). Or a nonprofit organization might have an ill-structured problem of how to recruit more volunteers. ...

24 It all started in a laboratory outside London, England, right after World War II. Scien- tists were experimenting with fructo ...

Linking Problems, Solutions, and Activities 25 Picture Tickler [17] (Uses unrelated pictures to generate ideas. Many people res ...

group members as your primary source of stimuli, this pure brainwriting activity is for you.) Museum Madness [86] (This cousin ...

As noted previously, ALL of the individual activities can be used by groups, but not all of the group activities can be used by ...