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Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan “A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.”
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
S.P.R.E.A.D.ng Creative ThinkingThroughout Your Entire Organization
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
% Of Profit
15% Rule
Clubs
Company Books (Dupont)
Contests
Creativity/Innovation
Newsletters - Print/Electronic
Creativity/Innovation Rooms
Groups---Oz Group
Guest Speakers
Idea Meetings
Idea Systems
In-House Training
Innovation Fairs
Libraries
Management Support
Newsletters - External
Posters
Rebel Groups-Unofficial
Retreats
Rewards & Reward Systems
Seminars
Support Conference Attendance
Training Programs
Workshops
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
% Of Profit
15% Rule
Clubs-G.R.I.T.
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Company Books
ContestsCreativity/Innovation
Newsletters Print/Electronic
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Creativity/Innovation Rooms
Groups---Oz Group
Guest Speakers
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Idea Meetings
Idea Systems
In-House Training
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Innovation Fairs
Libraries
Management Support
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What Some Corps Do…
Newsletters - External
PostersRebel Groups-Unofficial-
P&G, Boeing
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
RetreatsRewards & Reward Systems
Seminars
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Support Conference Attendance
Training Programs
Workshops
What Some Corps Do…
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
S.P.R.E.A.D.SPREAD
UPPORTINGROMOTINGECOGNIZINGNCOURAGINGPPLYINGEVELOPING
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
1.2.3.4.5.6.• Major Point One:
• Leaders need to choose to S.P.R.E.A.D. C.r.e.8.n.g. and Creative Thinking
• Major Point Two:
• C.r.e.8.n.g. and Creative Thinking skills, tools and techniques need to be practiced.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
S.P.R.E.A.D.• Major Point Three:
• We each need to warm up our Creativeness to generate creativeness on demand when we require it.
• Major Point Four:
• There are many creative thinking tools and techniques that can be matched to individual and team thinking styles.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
S.P.R.E.A.D. Major Point Five:
• There are a minimum of 52 creative thinking traits that can be continuously enriched and expanded in all people.
• Major Point Six:
• Being creative is a personal choice that we must each choose.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Who Might Be
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Le CorbusierLucio Costa, BrazilCharles Correa, IndiaDomenico da CortonaKeith Cottier, AustraliaJustus DahindenPaeonis and DaphnisHoward Davis, United StatesTown and DavisCharles Davis/ EHDD, United StatesPaeonius and DemetriosJohn DobsonPeter Dodge/ EHDD, United StatesDomitianAdrien DortsmanBalkrishna Doshi, IndiaA. E. Doyle, United StatesDuany and Plater-Zyberk, United StatesWillem Marinus Dudok, NetherlandsBijvoet and DuikerContamin and DutertCharles and Ray Eames, United StatesKarl EhnGustave Eiffel, FranceL. A. Boileau and Gustave Eiffel, FrancePeter Eisenman, United StatesSedad Eldem, TurkeyCraig Ellwood, United StatesCarl Ludvig EngelKobori EnshuArthur C. Erickson, CanadaJohann Fisher von ErlachJoseph Esherick, Esherick Homsey Ralph Erskine, England, UK, Joseph Esherick, United StatesAldo van Eyck, Netherlands
Alvar Aalto, FinlandRobert Adam, Scotland
Steffen AhrendsGregory Ain
Leon Battista Alberti, ItalyGaleazzo Alessi, Italy
Christopher Alexander, United StatesWilliam Van Alen
Amenophis III, EgyptTadao Ando, Japan
John Andrews, AustraliaAnthemios
Apollodorus of Damascus, RomanThe Architects Collaborative (TAC)
ArtonC. R. Ashbee, England
Erik Gunnar Asplund, SwedenArup Associates United Kingdom
Gae Aulenti, FranceM. H. Baillie-Scott
Luis Barragan, MexicoSir Charles Barry, England
William Henry BarlowFalke Barmou
Edward Larabee Barnes, United StatesGeoffrey Bawa
Gunter Behnisch, GermanyPeter Behrens, Germany
Belgiojoso, Peressutti and RogersPietro Belluschi, United States
Henrik Petrus Berlage, NetherlandsGiovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italy
Dominikus Böhm, GermanyL. A. Boileau, France
Francesco Borromini, ItalyMario Botta, Switzerland
Etienne-Louis Boullee, FranceDonato Bramante, Italy
Zion & Breen, United StatesMarcel Breuer, United States and Germany
Michiel BrinkmanJohannes Brinkman, Netherlands
Neave BrownIsambard Kingdom Brunel, England
Filippo Brunelleschi, ItalyErik Bryggman, Finland
Charles Bulfinch, United StatesThornton-Latrobe-Bulfinch, United States
Shepley and Bulfinch, United StatesGordon Bunshaft/ SOM, United States
Lord Burlington, EnglandDaniel Burnham, United States
Decimus Burton, EnglandWilliam Butterfield, EnglandSantiago Calatrava, Spain
CallicratesIctinus and Callicrates with Phidias, Greece
Arnolfo di CambioCambridge Seven Associates
Felix Candela, MexicoCola da Caprarola
Douglas Cardinal, CanadaGiancarlo de Carlo, Italy
Carrere and HastingsRichard Castle
Severus and CelerWilliam Chambers
G. P. Chedanne, FranceSerge Chermayeff
Mario J. CiampiHenry Ciriani, France
Henry N. Cobb, United States
ALL people
in ALL countries
are born with
the capacity to be
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Le CorbusierLucio Costa, BrazilCharles Correa, IndiaDomenico da CortonaKeith Cottier, AustraliaJustus DahindenPaeonis and DaphnisHoward Davis, United StatesTown and DavisCharles Davis/ EHDD, United StatesPaeonius and DemetriosJohn DobsonPeter Dodge/ EHDD, United StatesDomitianAdrien DortsmanBalkrishna Doshi, IndiaA. E. Doyle, United StatesDuany and Plater-Zyberk, United StatesWillem Marinus Dudok, NetherlandsBijvoet and DuikerContamin and DutertCharles and Ray Eames, United StatesKarl EhnGustave Eiffel, FranceL. A. Boileau and Gustave Eiffel, FrancePeter Eisenman, United StatesSedad Eldem, TurkeyCraig Ellwood, United StatesCarl Ludvig EngelKobori EnshuArthur C. Erickson, CanadaJohann Fisher von ErlachJoseph Esherick, Esherick Homsey Ralph Erskine, England, UK, Joseph Esherick, United StatesAldo van Eyck, Netherlands
Alvar Aalto, FinlandRobert Adam, Scotland
Steffen AhrendsGregory Ain
Leon Battista Alberti, ItalyGaleazzo Alessi, Italy
Christopher Alexander, United StatesWilliam Van Alen
Amenophis III, EgyptTadao Ando, Japan
John Andrews, AustraliaAnthemios
Apollodorus of Damascus, RomanThe Architects Collaborative (TAC)
ArtonC. R. Ashbee, England
Erik Gunnar Asplund, SwedenArup Associates United Kingdom
Gae Aulenti, FranceM. H. Baillie-Scott
Luis Barragan, MexicoSir Charles Barry, England
William Henry BarlowFalke Barmou
Edward Larabee Barnes, United StatesGeoffrey Bawa
Gunter Behnisch, GermanyPeter Behrens, Germany
Belgiojoso, Peressutti and RogersPietro Belluschi, United States
Henrik Petrus Berlage, NetherlandsGiovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italy
Dominikus Böhm, GermanyL. A. Boileau, France
Francesco Borromini, ItalyMario Botta, Switzerland
Etienne-Louis Boullee, FranceDonato Bramante, Italy
Zion & Breen, United StatesMarcel Breuer, United States and Germany
Michiel BrinkmanJohannes Brinkman, Netherlands
Neave BrownIsambard Kingdom Brunel, England
Filippo Brunelleschi, ItalyErik Bryggman, Finland
Charles Bulfinch, United StatesThornton-Latrobe-Bulfinch, United States
Shepley and Bulfinch, United StatesGordon Bunshaft/ SOM, United States
Lord Burlington, EnglandDaniel Burnham, United States
Decimus Burton, EnglandWilliam Butterfield, England
Santiago Calatrava, SpainCallicrates
Ictinus and Callicrates with Phidias, GreeceArnolfo di Cambio
Cambridge Seven AssociatesFelix Candela, Mexico
Cola da CaprarolaDouglas Cardinal, Canada
Giancarlo de Carlo, ItalyCarrere and Hastings
Richard CastleSeverus and CelerWilliam Chambers
G. P. Chedanne, FranceSerge ChermayeffMario J. Ciampi
Henry Ciriani, FranceHenry N. Cobb, United States
ALL peoplein ALL countriesare born withthe capacity to be
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
! Break Your Crayons and Draw Outside the Lines
“…”. Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Are YouCreative ?
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
FluencyFlexibility
ElaborationOriginality
E. Paul Torrance, Ph.D.J. P. Guilford, Ph.D.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
1950 - 1980
4 academic journals 2 Psychological 2 Educational400+ traits 147 Experts
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What might we do?
Daily activities!
Books, websites, blogs, podcasts…and/or Alan’s Cre8ng Challenges (18 yrs)
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
What might we do?
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
1. Abstract2. Adaptable3. Breakthrough thinking4. Change of Context 5. Combination of Ideas/Facts6. Curious7. Divergent thinker8. Elaborative -
in drawing, speaking9. Energetic
10. Fantasize, able to11. Fantasy life when young12. Feelings & Emotions, expresses13. Feelings & Emotions, senses14. Flexible in problem situations15. Flexible thinker
16. Fluent - produces many ideas17. Future oriented18. Humor, unique sense of19. Humor, varied sense of20. Humorous Perspective21. Idealistic22. Imaginative23. Independent24. Ingenious25. Learning, always26. Movement & Sound (Sense change)27. Multiple Idea Combinations28. Non-conforming29. Not motivated by money30. Observant, highly
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
31. Open-ended
32. Openness-resisting early completion
33. Original - uniqueness
34. Passionate about their work
35. Perceives world differently
36. Perspective, Internal – easily sees into problems & things
37. Perspective, Macro Scale [seeing from larger view]
38. Provocative Viewpoint, takes
39. Question asker
40. Richness & Colorful Detail in thinking and communicating
41. See possibilities
42. Self- knowledgeable
43. Self-actualizing
44. Self-disciplined
45. Sense of destiny
46. Sensitive
47. Severely critical: self, work, potential-passion & potential of other people
48. Specific interests
49. Synthesize correctly,often intuitively
50. Tolerant of ambiguity
51. Unusual Viewpoint, see easily
52. Visualize – sensory or imaginary/intuitive
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
52 Traits
All born with them!
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
52 Traits
All are teachablelearnable!
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
1. Abstract
2. Adaptable
3. Breakthrough thinking
4. Change of Context
5. Combination of Ideas/Facts
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
6. Curious
7. Divergent thinker
8. Elaborative - in drawing, speaking
9. Energetic
10. Fantasize, able to
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
11. Fantasy life when young
12. Feelings & Emotions, expresses
13. Feelings & Emotions, senses
14. Flexible in problem situations
15. Flexible thinker
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
16. Fluent - produces many ideas
17. Future oriented
18. Humor, unique sense of
19. Humor, varied sense of
20. Humorous Perspective
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
21. Idealistic
22. Imaginative
23. Independent
24. Ingenious
25. Learning, always
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
26. Movement & Sound (Sense change)
27. Multiple Idea Combinations
28. Non-conforming
29. Not motivated by money
30. Observant, highly
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
31. Open-ended
32. Openness-resist early completion
33. Original - uniqueness
34. Passionate about their work
35. Perceives world differently
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
36. Perspective, Internal – easily sees into\
problems & things
37. Perspective, Macro Scale [seeing from larger view]
38. Provocative Viewpoint, takes
39. Question asker
40. Richness & Colorful Detail in thinking & communicating
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
41. See possibilities
42. Self- knowledgeable
43. Self-actualizing
44. Self-disciplined
45. Sense of destiny
46. Sensitive
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
47. Severely critical: self, work, potential-passion & potential of other people
48. Specific interests
49. Synthesize correctly, often intuitively
50. Tolerant of ambiguity
51. Unusual Viewpoint, sees from
52. Visualize – sensory or imaginary/intuitive
52 Learnable Creative Thinking Traits
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Howmight you be
creative?
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Today more than ever before
all organizations, businesses
and schools need to . . .
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
Support, Promote, Recognize,
Encourage, Apply & Develop
the C.r.e.8.n.g. abilities and
creative thinking skills of every
member, employee, student &
teacher.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
When leaders choose to truly
S.P.R.E.A.D. C.r.e.8.n.g. and
Creative Thinking they will
grow in dimensions never seen
before.
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
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’s a
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lks!
Life-Long Learning: Designing your own creative thinking development plan
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