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007:License to Create

007: License to Create


Agenda Warm up Game Creativity

Brainstorm Activity Innovation

Innovation Activity Celebration/Conclusion


Warm Up: Outburst!


Creativity Definition WIIFM Managing the

Brainstorm Process Questions to ask


25 Ways to Make Communication More Creative

Activate Celebrate Replicate Incubate Facilitate Collaborate Appreciate Captivate

Motivate Exclamate Sensate Decorate Visualate Musicate Karaoke-ate Recreate

Questionate Vocabulate Innovate Communicate Formulate Investigate Create Evaluate Ideate


Managing the Brainstorm Process Start with the end in mind Brainstorm – ideas only; no evaluation Evaluate ideas Encourage participation – manage the

black hat, yellow hat, green hat roles ACCOUNTABILITY: End with action

items, next steps, deliverables (who owes what to whom by when; be specific)


How do we make ourselves more

creative?

Brainstorming Activity


Top 10 Places for Creative Ideas10. Cutting the grass. 9. Listening to a church sermon. 8. Waking up in the middle of the night. 7. Exercising. 6. Reading. 5. During a boring meeting. 4. Falling asleep or waking up. 3. Sitting on the “throne.” 2. Driving. 1. Taking a bath or a shower.

(no, not right now!)


Definition Differences “Only if you take it” Questions to ask

Innovation


Questions to Ask What is your goal, challenge or problem? Who are the customers or

audiences? What is needed, wanted or wished? What should people KNOW/DO/BE?


Questions to Ask What should people FEEL? What should people HAVE? How should success LOOK, FEEL and SOUND? What criteria should be used to evaluate success?


Let’s innovate what we just

brainstormed!

Innovation Activity


Creativity vs. Innovation Brainstorming and Innovating

Activities Next Steps

Celebration/Conclusion


007: License to Create

Workforce Solutions November 3, 2006

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