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Competency 3
Week 10, OB 6000
Question | Answer |
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What is creativity? | refers to an ability to imagine new possibilities, envision original ideas, or develop novel uses of existing ideas or technologies |
What is Innovation? | Refers to a longer process of development and implementation |
How does creative thinking differ from critical thinking? | Critical thinking is analytical, logical, and results in on answer or just a few alternatives. Critical thinking is often described as vertical, logically moving upward until you arrive at a correct answer |
What is Divergent thinking? | Describes those moments in which something new and different is emerging. |
What is Convergent thinking? | Refers to moments when we’re evaluating and judging ideas, and eventually, when we decide which of the ideas we will continue to pursue. |
·How does Johari’s “blind spot” create the barrier to creative thinking? | The “blind spot” acts a barrier at times to creativity because we do not question ways of thinking and behaving that simply seem natural to us. |
What are the top five common barriers to creative thinking? | 1. Resistance to change 2. Fear of making a mistake and fear of failure 3. Inability to tolerate ambiguity 4. The tendency to judge rather than to generate ideas 5. Inability to relax or to permit any new idea to incubate |
What is brainstorming? | An effective strategy for finding and encouraging collective innovation |
What is the nominal group technique? | A process that uses brainstorming to generate new ideas and then uses group discussion and systemic voting to choose from among the ideas generated by the group |
What quadrants do the creative and critical thinking skills lay in? | ***Creative and Critical thinking skills reflect the emphases of the Create and Control quadrants*** |