Creativity

My Toolkit

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Sometimes all we need to see and solve a problem, is to get another perspective.  My toolkit is chock-full-o-tricks-of-the-trade designed to spark innovative thinking.  No two sessions are alike because tools are specifically chosen and adapted to meet the needs of the client. These photos include just a few of the things that I bring along. The most effective "tool"...
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Rules for Convergent Thinking

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Once you have a bunch of ideas from your divergent thinking, you have to start to make choices using convergent thinking. Convergent thinking ensures change is not reckless.  It seeks to find the best answer to the problem by screening (filtering-keeping some, discarding others), sorting (categorizing and grouping), prioritizing (ranking), supporting (examining positive attribu...
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CPS Faciliation

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Creative Problem Solving is a process that requires facilitation.  Whether you are exploring a vision or formulating solutions to challenges, there are different tools to truly get you from chaos to clarity.  A trained facilitator is flexible and can adjust to the client’s needs by interjecting more tools and adapting tools to the client’s specific challenge. According to A....
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Creative Problem Solving

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Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a process that can be used on countless challenges now and into your future.  It provides a reliable structured way to get to answers.  Some might call it a creative process for non-creative people, but everyone is creative in their own way so this isn’t entirely true…but you get the point.  It is really just a description of the stages people ...
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