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The A-Ha! MomentFostering creativity and innovation
A UQ Leadership Community eventTamma Sorbello, Organisational Development
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How I feel about my ability to be creative and innovative
What does creativity meanto you?
What conditions support your creativity?
Your invitation for today…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
Creativethinking
?
What is the sum of 5 and 5?
What two numbers add up to 10?
Break the problem into
parts
Turn things around
http://taggalaxy.de/
Look for inspiration outside of your
own area
Look for links between unrelated
thingshttp://watchout4snakes.com/wo4snakes/Random/RandomWord
What would you do if you
were someone else?
How would
you explain
the problem
to a person
who knows
nothing about it?
Structuring creative thinking
Parallel thinking
• A structured process of cooperative exploration• 6 thinking perspectives
Rather than debate/opposition
Looking ‘in parallel’
My view Your view
My view
Their view
Your view
Their view
Your view
My view
6 thinking hats
White hat
Information, facts, data
No argument/judgementDescribe what you see
Red hat
Intuition, hunches, emotions
Put forward gut feel without justification
Yellow hat
Optimism, logical positive
Benefits?How/why will it work?
Black hat
Caution, logical negative
Problems? Why won’t it work?
Green hat
Creativity, new ideas
Seek new perspectives and possibilities
Blue hat
Process, meta-thinking
What do we need to think about now?
All students are guaranteed entry to the university of their choice
Types of innovation
Product
What products and services do
we offer?
Process
How do we create and deliver our
products and services?
Position
Who do we target for our products and
services? What story do we
tell?
Paradigm
How do we think about
what we do? How do we
organise ourselves to do
it?
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Types of innovation
Product Process Position Paradigm
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Your opportunities…
• Something in your workplace that frustrates you, or that could be better
• What are the opportunities to improve?
Product Process Position Paradigm
About your context
How can you embed opportunities for creativity & innovation? How do you make the time and space?How do you give yourself permission?
Encouraging innovation at UQ
This could be exemplified by a leader who:• Demonstrates willingness to explore creative solutions to
problems and investigate new ways of working• Supports a learning-centred team, encouraging ongoing
development of individual and team capability• Values a diverse workforce and creates an inclusive work
environment that encourages a broad range of ideas and perspectives
• … http://www.hr.uq.edu.au/leadership-capability-learning
University wide transformation program, sponsored by the Vice-Chancellor, which aims to:• Improve administrative activities and
processes which impact on the core academic purpose
• Empower staff and build a continuous improvement culture and capability UQ-wide
• http://www.uq.edu.au/ess/
What will you do to:- Improve something that
supports our customers (student experience and outcomes)
- Solve a problem
- Create space for you and your team to think more creatively and innovate
- Something else?
UQ Leadership Community www.hr.uq.edu.au/leadership-community
www.hr.uq.edu.au/leadership
Tamma Sorbello: [email protected]
Credit where it’s due
• Mindmaps: Learning Fundamentals http://learningfundamentals.com.au/blog/dont-understand-something-break-it-down-with-mindmaps/
• Six Thinking Hats: Edward de Bono• 4 P’s of innovation: Tidd, Bessant & Pavitt
http://www.innovation-portal.info/wp-content/uploads/4Ps-explanation.pdf
• Images (mostly): Marc Helevenhttp://www.slideshare.net/marcnewshoestoday/100-images-for-visual-brainstorming