Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness.The latest volume in the series: Fostering CreativityTo survive in today's hypercompetitive climate, businesses must innovate constantly. Innovation hinges on creativity generating novel and useful ideas. By fostering creativity in your team, you help unleash your company's innovative powers. But this requires a disciplined process for leveraging employees' unique experiences, thinking styles, and expertise.This book reveals powerful strategies for unlocking your team's creative energies. You'll find out how to: - Put the right individuals together for maximum creative potential - Systematically identify business problems that offer opportunities for innovative solutions - Master the delicate art of managing ""creative abrasion"" between team members who think differently - Establish a psychological and physical environment conducive to creativity - Move your team from brainstorming to selecting options to focus on
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Mentor’s Message: Why Fostering Creativity Is Important Fostering Creativity: The Basics What Is Creativity?
A high-level view of this complex process Step 1: Assemble Your Team
Insights into how build a creative groupStep 2: Identify Opportunities
Suggestions for finding opportunities to exploitStep 3: Generate Options
Powerful tactics for producing a rich array of optionsStep 4: Converge on the One Best Option
How to arrive at the one best choiceTips and Tools Tools for Fostering Creativity
Worksheets to help you assess how well your organization fosters creativity, set a target for creative change, assess the psychological environment you and your team are working in, and document ideas for enhancing the physical environment to promote creativity.Test Yourself
A helpful review of concepts presented in this guide. Take it before and after you’ve read the guide, to see how much you’ve learned. To Learn More
Further titles of articles and books if you want to go more deeply into the topic.Sources for Fostering Creativity Notes
For you to use as ideas come to mind.
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