Communicating Power … for peak communications performance

David Woodward

davidw@communicating-power.com

CREATIVITY FOR JOB SEEKERS

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“No Phone Calls” Modesty

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“No Phone Calls” Modesty

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Emotions Gatekeepers

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“No Phone Calls” Modesty

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Problem

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Problem

Solution

Chooses

Changes

Judgmental - based onyes/no system

Non-judgmental

Information usedfor its meaning

Information used

to trigger new ideas

Ideas follow directly &

logically from another

Deliberate jumpsin ideas

Focus on relevance

Welcomes chanceintrusions

Follows most likely

Explores least likely

Closed procedure

Open procedure

Objective:Join all nine dots with four straight lines,without taking the pen off the paper.

What do you do with rejection?

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Start

Objective:Join all nine dots with three straight lines,without taking the pen off the paper.

Broaden out(diverge)

Narrow down(converge)

Flowof

process

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Broadening out(diverging)

Brain writing

Rich Pictures

Analogies

Metaphors

Science fiction characters

Narrowing down(converging)

Voting

Paired comparison analysis Biggest laugh

Least likely to work Random selection

Clustering

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Start

Objective:Join all nine dots with one straight line,without folding or tearing the paper.

Creativity

Open Minds Innovation

Playfulness Space

Identified AssumptionsChallenged Assumptions

Teams

Crisis

It needs space

Be a “reflective practitioner”

It’s already there - let it happen

Build up, don’t knock down

Know what you really want

Attend closely, understand broadly

Connect and be receptive

Use all mental modes

Cycle often and close late

Aim for absorbed playfulness

Involve others

Challenge the givensOvercome inter-personal

pressures

Ring the changesManage the process

Brainteaser:You’re in the office one day when a meeting is called. You realize that some papers you need are at home 37 miles away. You check your watch: if you average 50 miles per hour you can just make it in time. So you run to your car and drive home. At home, you’re getting back into the car and you check the time – you have averaged 25 mph so far.

What speed do you need to do to get back to the office in time for the meeting?

Brainteaser:You are the organizer for a tennis tournament. It will be a singles knock-out competition.You receive 117 entries.

How many matches do you need to schedule so to find the winner of the competition?

Brainteaser:You have two pieces of fuse, the type that you use for gunpowder. Each burns for exactly one hour when lit at one end. Unfortunately, each burns at an inconsistent rate - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

How can you use these two pieces of fuse to measure 45 minutes?