The Managers Pocket Guide To Creativity

Use this guide to unleash the creative potential in others by understanding the key enablers and barriers to creativity. Directed creativity is possibly the most important problem solving skill. You'll learn how the elements of creative thinking, the methods that help us get "un-stuck", can themselves be creative. What better way to drive home the power of the creative thought process than to go out on a limb and be creative about creativity!

Use this guide to unleash the creative potential in others by understanding the key enablers and barriers to creativity. Directed creativity is possibly the most important problem solving skill. Is there a secret to creativity? Can a simple change in the way we think about problems dramatically cut the cycle time for generating state-of-the-art solutions? Yes! And this book will show you how. It presents practical tools and suggestions for creative thinking while never losing touch with the essential components of the process: its looseness, its freedom, its risk-taking. You'll learn how the elements of creative thinking-the methods that help us get un-stuck-can themselves be creative. What better way to drive home the power of the creative thought process than to go out on a limb and be creative about creativity!. Includes: .: Personal Creativity Assessment.; Checklist of common workplace behaviors that block creativity.; A realistic, useful model of the creative thought process.; Creative thinking methods-process tools that help you do creative thinking.; Training Transfer Assessmen

Today's organizations are in the learning business. Employees must take in a constant supply of new information and apply it to their work regardless of their position.

E-mail, voice mail, conference calls, and video conferences have revolutionized communication. Learn to maximize this technology to link personnel across cities, states, and countries. Every manager needs to know the "best uses" of these new basic technologies.

Innovation is necessary for your survival and your organizations. But the process is fraught with obstacles. How can you keep yourself and your team moving forward? You start with this how-to guide to innovation written specifically for todays busy manager. This quick-read is full of practical, easy-to-implement techniques that will help you avoid the unending details and stops and starts, distractions that cause your focus to shift, false starts and market shifts that lead you down the wrong path and steep learning curves that slow the process down.

This pocket guide will expose the business opportunity that underpins the support of diversity in today's organizations. Learn how to improve workplace productivity by bridging organization goals with diversity imperatives in areas like recruitment, retention, team building, and service.

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Handbook of Organizational Creativity is designed to explain creativity and innovation in organizations. This handbook contains 28 chapters dedicated to particularly complex phenomena, all written by leading experts in the field of organizational creativity. The format of the book follows the multi-level structure of creativity in organizations where creativity takes place at the individual level, the group level, and the organizational level. Beyond just theoretical frameworks, applications and interventions are also emphasized. This topic will be of particular interest to managers of creative personnel, and managers that see the potential benefit of creativity to their organizations. Information is presented in a manner such that students, researchers, and managers alike should have much to gain from the present handbook Variables such as idea generation, affect, personality, expertise, teams, leadership, and planning, among many others, are discussed Specific practical interventions are discussed that involve training, development, rewards, and organizational development Provides a summary of the field’s history, the current state of the field, as well as viable directions for future research