3rd of a series of ppt presentations used during my SIM - BROKEN CRAYONS 2-day workshop November 9th and 10th, 2010 in Singapore

1. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
S.P.R.E.A.D.ng Creative Thinking
Throughout Your Entire Deparment
Lessons from

2. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
Creative Thinking and
Problem Solving Involves
Thinking
Inside,
Outside,
Along side,
Under,
Over,
with a New or No Box at All,

3. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
Paradigm 2015
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b.b.
c.c.
d.d.
If it ain’t broke…..leave it alone.
If it ain’t broke….break it.
Better fix it before it breaks.
Keep using it until it breaks.
We need to challenge the status quo
And prepare for the unexpected and
Unknown.

4. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
Develop your people into a

5. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
We need to and can do ALL of these
Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Throughout each year to develop
Our teams, depts, organizations
Into Cre8ng Organizations.

6. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
In meetings warm-up the thinking
Use puzzles and practice exercises
to get the brains and
Creative Thinking working.

7. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
One or NO “straight lines”
A wide crayon
Pour paint on it
Spray paint on it
Squash paper up
Line around world
Dip in can of paint
Cut dots out & line up
Spiral from center out
Wide paint roller/brush
Fold drawing until overlap
Write in cursive “4 straight lines”
3 lines
Possible
Solutions

8. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
Cre8vW A R M - U P S
Window
Roof top
Envelope
4 triangles
Symbol for duct
Top of a pyramid
“x” marks the spot
Under side of pyramid
Close up view of fence
Tent
Logo
Game board
Ceiling light
4 arrow heads
Decorated box
Display shelf unit
2 overlapping triangles
…….?????????

9. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
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See from many perspectives
Go beyond the norm
Generate many POSSIBLE solutions

11. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
&
Convergence
We need to encourage both
Divergent & Convergent thinking
Divergent = open ended
Convergent = focused, narrowing down

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Negatives of Creativity
We KILL Ideas in ourselves & others
We do not consciously SPREAD
Creative G.A.P.S.
Gift
Attitude
Process(es)
Strategies/Systems

13. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
RIP
here
lies
a
good
idea
RIP
idea
yesterday
RIP
idea
tomorrowtoday
TombstonesTombstones of creativity
STOP
KILLING
IDEAS
Always Test SOLUTIONS
before your use them

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idea
worth a try
does make waves....
but that’s ok!
boldidea
Clever
approach!
crazy enough
to work
impressive
changes are good
an inspiration
very cool!
fantastic!
Trophies of creativity
!
Support
Promote
Encourage
Recognize & Reward
Apply
Develop

15. Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
32 Traits32 Traits
See possibilities
Self- knowledgeable
Self-actualizing
Self-disciplined
Sense of destiny
Sensitive
Severely critical of…
Specific interests
Synthesize correctly
Tolerant of ambiguity
Adaptable
Curious
Divergent thinker
Energetic
Fantasize, able to
Flexible thinker
Fluent
Future oriented
Humor
Idealistic
Imaginative
Independent
Ingenious
Learning, always
Non-conforming
Not motivated by money
Observant, highly
Open-ended
Original - uniqueness
Passionate about their work
Perceive world differently
Question asker
All born with capacity
Develop these traits
Into strengths

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See reality in fantasy
See fantasy in reality.
Perspective makes a difference.

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your Cre8ng styles

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Rational, logical,
Analytical, individual
Systematic, equations,
Step-by-step, proven
Intuitive, exploratory,
Unknown, fanciful
Fun, harmonious,
Involving all, family/team
Solo
Convergently
Divergent
Systematically
Convergent
Organization
Wholistically
Divergent
Family
Solo/Team
DivergentM. I.
N.D.

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Innovation-
Problem-Finding
Self
Recovery-
Implementing
Self
Imagination-
Idea-Generating
Self
Discovery-
Idea Sensing
Self
your cre8ng™ style
M. I.
N.D.

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What Might
What Is It?
It Be?
What Might
We Want it to be?

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Tools &
Techniques

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When to be
Creative
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!!
When You
Need to Be
!

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Where to be
Creative
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Where You
Need to Be

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S.P.R.E.A.D.
S
P
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E
A
D
Physical
Mental
Emotional
Social

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Choose
To be

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http://www.cre8ng.com

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Cre8vW A R M - U P S
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Tell Me - I will forget
Show Me - I may remember
Involve Me - I may begin to Learn
Reach Me - get to know me
as I get to know you
- we will learn together