This document discusses developing creative thinking. It defines creative thinking as unconventional thinking that merges ideas in new ways. It provides motivation quotes about the need for new perspectives and abandoning old ways of thinking. The document then discusses that the average person has about 100 new ideas per day, and in a team of 6 people generating ideas for 2 days could result in 1200 new ideas. It describes techniques for boosting creativity like brainstorming, mind mapping, and attribute listing. It emphasizes having both present-focused teams and future-focused teams to prepare for what's to come. Throughout it encourages taking risks, being curious, and challenging assumptions to enhance creative thinking.

1. Developing Creative
Thinking
Presented by:
Namrata

10. CREATIVE THINKING:
WHAT IS IT?

11. Definitions
Creative Thinking is …
 Unconventional Thinking
 Merging of Ideas which Have
Not Been Merged Before
Always new
perspectives, and
extending the frontiers
of what’s possible

12. Interesting Quotes
“Every organization must be prepared to
abandon everything it does to survive in
the future”
Prof. Peter F. Drucker
“The problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were
at when we created them”
Albert Einstein

13. The average human being thinks of about
100 new ideas/day!!
If a team of “6” Nurses and Doctors Express All Their Ideas
After 2 days …
Think Of The Possibilities…
!!!1200 NEW IDEAS!!!

14. Creativity boosting techniques
Motivation
Expertise
Creative Thinking
skills
Creativity

15. Creative Thinking skills
Let’s start with the following premise:
You’re alive,
Therefore you’re creative.

16. Creative Thinking skills
- Unconventional.
- Uninhibited.
- Risk-taker.
- Always looks for new patterns and new
combinations.
- Inventive.
- Extremely curious.
- Driven.
- Visionary: Michelangelo looked at a large piece of
marble and decided to “chip away at everything that
wasn't David”.
- ParticularIy intuitive.
- Rather individualistic (unfortunately …).

18. Motivation to be creative
2 Motivations:
-External: expressing your new ideas
to others.
-Internal: Thinking of new ideas.

19. Barriers
To
Creativity
Negative
Attitude
Lack of
Self-
Motivation
Lack of
Self-
Confidence
Too many
Rules and
Formalization
Country
Culture
Economical
&
Political
Situation
Corporate
Culture
Family
Background
Educational
System
Stress
Level
Lack of
Exercising
Lack of
Tools
Barriers To
Creativity

20. Motivation to be creative
Manage it by:
- Providing challenges: stretching people’s
skills in their jobs.
- Freedom to create: while clearly specifying
goals. This yields a very valuable sense of
ownership.
- Providing resources: mainly time –
particularly time pressure - and money – but never
enough.

21. Creativity boosting
techniques:
The most obvious ideas are often the most
important ones, and, unfortunately, also the ones
we are most unaware of.

22. Creativity boosting
techniques:
Always Create F-teams (F = future) with your P-
teams (P = present):
While the P-team deals with current
work challenges, the Future team is
literally always investigating and / or
creating, the “next future” and
preparing the institution for it.
Re: Ken Blanchard: “Mission Possible”- 1997.

23. • Brain Storming
• The Classic Creative
Methods for Groups
• Mind Mapping
• Hierarchal Breakdown
and Exploration

24. • Absence Thinking
• Thinking About What is
Not There
• Talk Streaming
• Talking, Talking and
Talking Until Unblocking

25. • Attribute Listing
• Listing Attributes of
Objects and then
Challenging them.
• Assumption Busting
• Challenging
Unconscious
Assumptions

26. • Visioning
• Creating a Motivating
View of the Future
• Wishing
• Stating Ideas as Wishes
to Expand Thinking

27. • Pausing
• Think More Deeply for a
Minute
• Taking a Break
• When Creativity is
Fading

28. • Prof. Edward de Bono:
– World’s leading authority in the field of
creative and conceptual thinking
– Author of over 60 books translated to about 50
languages
6 Thinking Hats

29. Edward de Bono’s
Six Thinking Hats
• Provides a framework for thinking:
Creativity, new ideas
Process – thinking about thinking
Emotions – how do we feel about this?
Optimism, good points
Caution, bad points
Facts – what do we already know?

30. Discipline
Positive Attitude
Critical Thinking Creativity
Optimal
Thinking

31. Have a very creative life
Thank You..