Developing Creative Thinking

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Developing Creative Thinking

• Health
• Reform
• Conference
• Kuwait
• March 2009

Presented by Dr. Naji Bejjani
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CREATIVE THINKING WHAT IS IT?

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Definitions

• Creative Thinking is
• Unconventional Thinking
• Merging of Ideas which Have
• Not Been Merged Before
• Always new perspectives, and extending the
  frontiers of whats possible

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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

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Think Of The Possibilities

• 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

!!!1200 NEW IDEAS!!!
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Creativity boosting techniques
Creative Thinking skills
Expertise
Motivation
Creativity
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Creative Thinking skills

• Lets start with the following premise
• Youre alive,
• Therefore youre creative.

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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 ).

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Motivation to be creative

• 2 Motivations
• External expressing your new ideas to others.
• Internal Thinking of new ideas.

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Barriers To Creativity
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Motivation to be creative

• Manage it by
• Providing challenges stretching peoples 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Brain Storming
• The Classic Creative Methods for Groups

• Mind Mapping
• Hierarchal Breakdown and Exploration

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• Absence Thinking
• Thinking About What is Not There

• Talk Streaming
• Talking, Talking and Talking Until Unblocking

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• Attribute Listing
• Listing Attributes of Objects and then
  Challenging them.

• Assumption Busting
• Challenging Unconscious Assumptions

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• Visioning
• Creating a Motivating View of the Future

• Wishing
• Stating Ideas as Wishes to Expand Thinking

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• Pausing
• Think More Deeply for a Minute

• Taking a Break
• When Creativity is Fading

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6 Thinking Hats

• Prof. Edward de Bono
• Worlds leading authority in the field of
  creative and conceptual thinking
• Author of over 60 books translated to about 50
  languages

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Edward de Bonos Six Thinking Hats

• Provides a framework for thinking

Facts what do we already know?
Emotions how do we feel about this?
Caution, bad points
Optimism, good points
Creativity, new ideas
Process thinking about thinking
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Discipline
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Positive Attitude
Optimal Thinking
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Thanks for your Time Consideration

• Have a very creative life
• Naji Bejjani

Health Reform Conference Kuwait
March 2009