destination imagination ® © destination imagination, inc. 2004 cps toolbox trainer workshop v2

Destination ImagiNation®

© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2

What will we be doing at the What will we be doing at the Workshop?Workshop?

Enriching and expanding your familiarity with ten CPS and Critical thinking tools

Discovering ways to use these tools to make decisions either individually or in a group

Practice the tools so that you can teach them to others


UNDERSTANDINGTHE CHALLENGE

ConstructingOpportunities

FramingProblems

ExploringData

PREPARINGFOR ACTION

DevelopingSolutions

BuildingAcceptance

GENERATINGIDEASGenerating

Ideas

DesigningProcess

PLANNINGYOUR APPROACH

Creative Problem Solving—Version 6.1™

AppraisingTasks

© 2003, Center for Creative Learning, Inc. and Creative Problem Solving Group, Inc.


Reproduced by permission

Generating Many, Varied, and

Unusual Options

Focusing By Identifying a Promising Direction

or Theme

The “Gem” ofCreative Problem Solving

© 2003, Center for Creative Learning



Get to know your table team . . .

Introduce yourself to the others at your table

Determine something that everyone at your table has in common

Choose a tool that illustrates this common element

Write your name on your nametag and draw the tool on it, too!

Explain to the group your table team’s selected tool© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2

What’s a “tool?” Makes work easier

Increases effectiveness or efficiency

Adds strength or power

Designed for specific job or function

Has a name!© Destination ImagiNation, Inc. 2004CPS Toolbox Trainer Workshop V2

Creative Thinking

Encountering gaps, paradoxes, opportunities, challenges, or concerns; then searching for meaningful new connections by generating --

• Many possibilities• Varied possibilities • Unusual or original possibilities• Details to expand or enrich possibilities


Source: Treffinger, Isaksen, & Dorval, 2000. Adapted by permission.

Critical ThinkingExamining possibilities carefully, fairly, and constructively; then focusing your thoughts and actions by—

• Organizing and analyzing possibilities• Refining and developing promising

possibilities • Ranking or prioritizing options• Choosing or deciding on certain options


Source: Treffinger, Isaksen, & Dorval, 2000. Adapted by permission.

What’s a “thinking tool?”

Tools for Generating Brainstorming Attribute Listing Morphological

Matrix Force-Fitting SCAMPER

Tools for Focusing Hits and Hot Spots ALoU Paired

Comparison Analysis

Sequencing: SML Evaluation Matrix


Situation 1:

A team is faced with a challenge: They need to get the large peg into the stand with the round hole. They need to solve this problem. Does this call for Generating or Focusing?



A team is faced with a challenge:

Two team members have written scripts for the Presentation at school. Both scripts are good ones.

Does this call for Generating or Focusing?

Situation 2:

Situation 3:



One team member found an old box or cage on wheels in his grandmother’s garage. The team would like to use it in their Presentation in some way.


Situation 4:



The team can’t decide on a theme for their Presentation. They have many ideas but they don’t know which one to choose.


Situation 5:


A Family is faced with a challenge: They have book a Safari in Africa and need to get it planned.Managing time is very difficult for them. They have an especially hard time meeting deadlines. Nothing is ever completed when they say it will be and they have a definite deadline with the trip.


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