This document summarizes a presentation about using creativity for more effective leadership. It discusses defining creativity and the eight creative talents based on Jung's psychological types. These talents impact how leaders collect data, make decisions, and approach problem solving and innovation. The presentation provides examples of each talent and how they shape leadership styles. It emphasizes that all talents are equally creative and accessible. The goal is to help leaders and teams grow in creative strengths and overcome obstacles through awareness, culture, role models, and action learning.

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Presented by Dr. Lynne Levesque,
author of the Breakthrough Creativity Profile
Breakthrough Creativity:
How to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership

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Top 10 Skills – 2016 World Economic Forum

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Benefits of Creativity for Leaders
• More inventive decisions, strategies, and
solutions.
• Heightened ability to communicate and
motivate.
• Increased personal resilience.
• Greater comfort with risk, experimentation,
and ambiguity.

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Today’s Objectives
• Appreciate the breadth and depth around creativity.
• See the power of creativity for more effective leadership.
• Apply new knowledge to leadership development programs.

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Poll #1
Are you a creative leader?
a) I am a very creative leader.
b) I am a somewhat creative leader.
c) I am not sure if I am a creative leader.
d) No, I’ve never thought of myself as a creative leader.

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Key Principles: Creativity
We are all creative.
Creativity must be broadly defined.
There is no ideal model or one best
way to be creative.

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Tell Us
How do you define creativity?
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share your definition.

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Creativity—A Definition
The ability to consciously produce
different and valuable results.

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Key Principles: High-Performance Leadership
Effective leadership requires versatility.
Effective leaders must be strategic and
operational.
Effective leaders must be forceful
and enabling.
The Versatile Leader by Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser.

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Creativity and Leadership Require
Perception Judgment&
ReflectionAction &
It’s a balancing act!

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Talent—A Definition
A preference for taking in certain kinds of data or
for making judgments about data that:
• produces particular creative results.
• makes distinct creative contributions.

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Jung’s Psychological Types
Four Functions Two Orientations
• Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)
• Eight psychological types
• A compass for self-awareness
Collecting Data Making Decisions
Intuiting
Sensing Thinking
Feeling
Extraverted
Introverted

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Eight Creative Talents
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Jung’s Psychological Types
Breakthrough Creativity Approach
Eight Creative Talents

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Eight Creative Talents
Explorer
Energetic
Catalyst
Poet
Thoughtful
Counselor
Navigator
Pragmatic
Adapter
Pilot
Analytical
Strategist
Diplomat
Collaborative
Negotiator
Visionary
Insightful
Futurist
Inventor
Paradigm
Shifter
Adventurer
Skilled
Improviser

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• Are equally creative.
• Are all accessible to everyone.
• Impact your creativity differently.
• Color how you interpret data.
• Shape how you see problems and make decisions.
• Fashion your approach to problem solving,
decision making, and leading.
• Are tools for greater leadership.
Eight Creative Talents

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Poll #2
How are you a creative leader from a data-
collecting perspective?
a) Let me research facts and details on my own.
b) Tell me who, what, where, how, and when.
c) Let’s generate lots of ideas together.
d) Let me ponder this challenge while I go for a walk,
wrapped-up in my own imagination.

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Adventurer: Skilled Improviser
• Spontaneous, flexible, curious, and fun-loving.
• Finds skillful ways to get around obstacles and
is ready to act.
• Asks practical questions: who, what, where.
• Experimental, opportunistic, improvisational.
• Leadership style: “operational.”
• Can get caught up in the moment, ignore the
future, and undervalue process.

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Navigator: Pragmatic Adapter
• Careful, thoughtful, and private.
• Fine-tunes and builds on what others have done.
• Asks practical questions, wants concrete evidence.
• Methodical, incremental approach to innovation.
• Leadership style: “operational.”
• Uncomfortable with uncertainty and overly cautious.

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• Loves to brainstorm possibilities with others.
• Inspires ingenuity and discovery.
• Asks about concepts and patterns.
• Future-focused, broad search for opportunities.
• Leadership style: “strategic.”
• Often better at starting ventures than finishing them.
Explorer: Energetic Catalyst

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• Private, thoughtful, and often counterintuitive.
• Finds long-term, breakthrough solutions to
problems.
• Asks bold, penetrating, unusual questions.
• Has a multi-disciplined and systemic
perspective.
• Leadership style: “strategic.”
• Can neglect relevant facts and details and fail
to engage others.
Visionary: Insightful Futurist

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Poll #3
How are you a creative leader from a decision-
making perspective?
a) I want to hear from others and get their views to help
make up my mind.
b) I focus on my own values to guide my decisions.
c) I use logic and think out loud to organize my
decision process.
d) I develop categories in my mind to guide my decisions.

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• Enjoys working with others while leading projects
to achieve goals.
• Provides new and different strategies and
designs.
• Relishes playing devil’s advocate with the team.
• Structured, logical approach to innovation.
• Leadership style: “forceful.”
• May be uncomfortable with the ambiguity around
innovation.
Pilot: Analytical Strategist

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Inventor: Paradigm Shifter
• Objective, detached, and private.
• Provides unusual frameworks that often shift thinking.
• Takes a logical, analytical approach to problems
and decisions.
• Has an internal blueprint of how things work.
• Leadership style: “quietly forceful.”
• Tends to see things as “either/or”.

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• Enjoys organizing people to achieve common goals.
• Provides caring leadership and builds a safe place for
sharing ideas.
• Questions will asks about perspectives of others, worth
and importance.
• People-focused innovation approach.
• Leadership style: “enabling.”
• Tends to prefer harmony to conflict.
Diplomat: Collaborative Negotiator

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• Quietly supportive and nurturing.
• Offers safe place for testing out ideas.
• Considers personal values and ideals in questions.
• People and value-focused approach to innovation.
• Leadership style: “quietly enabling.”
• Can overlook points of view that clash with strongly
held values.
Poet: Thoughtful Counselor

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Poll #4
Now, how creative are you as a leader?
a) I am more sure of my creativity than ever.
b) I realize I am much more creative than I first thought.
c) I have a much better appreciation of my creativity
but still have a lot to learn.
d) Still not sure.

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Steps for Developing More Creative Leaders
• Help them grow awareness of creative strengths
and differences and identify obstacles.
• Build a supportive, motivating culture.
• Provide a variety of role models.
• Create action-learning projects and teams.

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Creative Talents and Teams
• Team’s creativity profile has particular strengths
and challenges.
• Awareness of profile can:
• Improve team’s interactions and creative outcomes.
• Help team members grow and develop their creativity
individually and as a team.
• Enhance ability to give feedback.
• Add more fun.

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Next Steps
• What will you do today to enhance your own
creativity as a leader?
• What about with your team?
• What can you do to integrate creativity into
leadership development programs?

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“The real voyage of discovery consists
not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes.”
~ Marcel Proust

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