The Wizard Presentation

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Break Your Crayons And Draw Outside the Lines
Developing Creative Thinking in individuals,
teams, departments, and entire organisations Robe
rt Alan Black PhD

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beliefs, code of belief, commandments,
conclusions credo declaration decrees directive,
doctrine, dogma finding guidelines, guides,
ideals, imperative, judgement laws, lead,
notion, opinion, perspective, point of
view, points position, principles,
pronouncement standards, statement of belief,
tenets, tips values,
beliefs, code of belief, commandments,
conclusions credo declaration decrees directive,
doctrine, dogma finding guidelines, guides,
ideals, imperative, judgement laws, lead,
notion, opinion, perspective, point of
view, points position, principles,
pronouncement standards, statement of belief,
tenets, tips values,
beliefs, code of belief, commandments,
conclusions credo declaration decrees directive,
doctrine, dogma finding guidelines, guides,
ideals, imperative, judgement laws, lead,
notion, opinion, perspective, point of
view, points position, principles,
pronouncement standards, statement of belief,
tenets, tips values,
beliefs, code of belief, commandments,
conclusions credo declaration decrees directive,
doctrine, dogma finding guidelines, guides,
ideals, imperative, judgement laws, lead,
notion, opinion, perspective, point of
view, points position, principles,
pronouncement standards, statement of belief,
tenets, tips values,
Broken Crayons
Creative Thinking Inside, Outside, Along side,
Under, Over, with a New or No Box at All,
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Introduction

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Your speaker today is
Dr. Robert Alan Black
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Who?
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Alan
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Robert
Alan
Black,
Ph.D, CSP
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1960 - today!
47 in 49
1 day to 25 yrs
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Winner of the Employee of the month award 306
months in a row since June 1984
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Licensed Architect
College Professor
Interior Designer
Signage Graphics Designer
Television News writer editor
Freelance Writer
Cartoonist
Creative Thinking Consultant
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1976 to today
Fortune 100 to 10,000 to 20,000
businesses Government agencies Police/Fire/EMT
depts. Volunteer Leadership groups, Universities
Creativity conferences around the globe
3,400presentations
speeches
programs
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General Motors, Nestle, Johnson
Johnson, CertainTeed, Kimberly Clark , American
Management Association, Battelle Institute,
Gillette-Stationery Division, Warner Robins Air
Force Base, Fort Gordon, Fort Benning, Fort
Stewart police departments in ... Athens, Forest
Park, Rome, Lawrenceville, Georgia Police Chiefs
Assn's Command College Georgia Public Safety
Training Center
Duck Head Apparel, Bibb Manufacturing, Thiele
Kaolin, Halliburton, Coloplast, Ferrosan, Danisco,
Novo, SIM
Partial client list
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Since 98
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8 trips around
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Alan
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A colorful white man named
Black!
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My lifes
passion
purpose
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S.P.R.E.A.D.
C,r,e,8,n,g,

Creative Thinking
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Let s Begin

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The Whole Box
Who What Where When Why How
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The Whole Box
Which Paradigm for 2015? Breaking the Box Warming
UP for Creativity Are You Creative? Creative
Tools Techniques S.P.R.E.A.D.ng CT Throughout
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Chapter 1
Which Paradigm for 2015? Breaking the Box Warming
UP for Creativity
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Paradigm 2015
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Paradigm 2015
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What Some Corps Do
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What Some Corps Do
Innovation Fairs Libraries Management
Support Newsletters - External Posters Problem
Solving Teams Rebel Groups-Unofficial Retreats Rew
ards Reward Systems Seminars Support Conference
Attendance Training Programs Workshops
Of Profit 15 Rule Creativity or Idea
Clubs Company Books (Dupont) Contests Creativity/I
nnovation Newsletters - Print/Electronic Creativi
ty/Innovation Rooms Groups---Oz Group Guest
Speakers Idea Meetings Idea Systems In-House
Training
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What Some Corps Do
Innovation Fairs Libraries Management
Support Newsletters - External Posters Problem
Solving Teams Rebel Groups-Unofficial Retreats Rew
ards Reward Systems Seminars Support Conference
Attendance Training Programs Workshops
Of Profit 15 Rule Creativity or Idea
Clubs Company Books (Dupont) Contests Creativity/I
nnovation Newsletters - Print/Electronic Creativi
ty/Innovation Rooms Groups---Oz Group Guest
Speakers Idea Meetings Idea Systems In-House
Training
None do it Systematically or Throughout or for
more than 18 months
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Cre8ng Communities
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S.P.R.E.A.D.
S P R E A D

• UPPORTING
• ROMOTING
• ECOGNIZING
• NCOURAGING
• PPLYING
• EVELOPING

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Importance of Warm-ups
A small selection of useful tools used to warm
up a team
Mental Visual Verbal Physical Emotional Fun
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What might the next two letters be?
O T T F F _ _
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What might the next two letters be?
SS WW EE XX ??
O T T F F
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Connect these 9 dots w/ 4 or less straight lines
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Classic Answer
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One or NO straight lines A wide crayon Pour
paint on it Spray paint on it Squash paper up
Line around world Dip in can of paint Cut dots
out line up Spiral from center out Wide paint
roller/brush Fold drawing until overlap Write in
cursive 4 straight lines
Possible
Solutions
3 lines
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Quickest way to Create or Innovate?
Breaking Paradigms or simply Re-examining Re-stat
ing Re-inventing the problem.
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Cre8v
W A R M - U P S
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Cre8v
W A R M - U P S
Window Roof top Envelope 4 triangles Symbol for
duct Top of a pyramid x marks the spot Under
side of pyramid Close up view of fence
Tent Logo Game board Ceiling light 4 arrow
heads Decorated box Display shelf unit 2
overlapping triangles .?????????
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Cre8v
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W A R M - U P S
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Cre8v
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W A R M - U P S
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Use the Box
Break the Box
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No Box New Box Virtual Box
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Warm-Up Exercises Why do them?
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Warm-Up Exercises To open up a group or team's
creative thinking To help to loosen up
paradigms, mindsets, points of view that people
bring to a creative thinking session.
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Chapter 2
Who Might Be Creative? Are You Creative? How
Creative Are You?
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Are You Creative ?
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32 Traits
Adaptable Curious Divergent thinker Energetic Fant
asize, able to Flexible thinker Fluent Future
oriented Humor Idealistic Imaginative
Independent Ingenious Learning,
always Non-conforming Not motivated by
money Observant, highly Open-ended Original -
uniqueness Passionate about their work Perceive
world differently Question asker
See possibilities Self- knowledgeable Self-actuali
zing Self-disciplined Sense of destiny Sensitive S
everely critical of Specific interests Synthesize
correctly Tolerant of ambiguity
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Fluency Flexibility Elaboration Originality
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Styles
Cre8ng
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Think Learn Communicate Solve Problems CREATE!
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- process information, knowledge - take in, use
info/knowledge - share info/knowledge - apply
info/knowledge
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Solo Convergently Divergent
Solo/Team Divergent
Organizationally Convergent
Divergent Family
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Rational, Logical, Analytical, Individual
Intuitive, Exploratory, Unknown, Fanciful
Fun, Harmonious, Involving all, Family/Team
Systematic, equations, Step-by-step, Proven
Answers
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your cre8ng style
Innovation- Problem-Finding Self
Imagination- Idea-Generating Self
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Recovery- Implementing Self
Discovery- Idea Sensing Self
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QUOTE

We all create Our own box shapes
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Barriers, Containers, Limiters, etc.
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Resource Defining your cre8ng style
http//www.cre8ng.com/minddesign.shtml
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Chapter 3
Creative Thinking Tools
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• DIVERGENT TOOLS
• Some you will know
• Others you wont

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Excursions Forced Relationships Metaphors
Idea Grid Attribute Listing TRIZ
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Checklisting Brain Writing
Writing Relay Group Excursions Guided Imagery
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Alphabetizing
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z

Divergent Thinking Tool
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CHECKLISTING S.C.A.M.P.E.R. is a form of
CHECKLIST. A CHECKLLIST is a prepared list of
words, verbs, questions that you can use that can
spark new ideas, change your thinking or your
point of view or even you mood and the direction
your thinking at the moment and take you into
many directions. S.C.A.M.P.E.R. was created by
Bob Eberle, teacher/educational consultant in the
1970 s to teach the concept of CHECKLISTING to
school children by using a memory device
(acronym) that they could easily remember when
they needed to generate new ideas or remember
existing or past ideas. It is used as the
foundation for Michael Michalkos excellent
Creative Thinking Tools bookTHINKERTOYS. First
Step Write out the word S.C.A.M.P.E.R. vertically
on a piece of paper or on a flip chart/chalkboard
or other surface that the group can see. Second
Step Write out what the 7 letters stand
for. Third Step Then use each of the 7 by asking
questions using these verbs to improve/change/revi
se your challenge or problem to generate
potential ideas and solutions. Fourth Step Read
over the ideas you have produced and select the
best To work on to turn them into HOT SOLUTIONS
to use.
S.C.A.M.P.E.R.
S. substitute C. combine A. adapt, adopt M.
minify, magnify P. put to other uses E.
eliminate R. reverse

Divergent Thinking Tool
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Sample
Forced Relationships This is an idea generating
technique that appears in many books about
creative thinking and creative thinking or
innovation tools. First Step choose something
totally unrelated to the problem or challenge You
or your group are working on. Second Step List
everything you or your group know about it. (Who?
What? When? Where? Why? How? physical, visual,
tactile,all senses, good and bad) Third
Step List everything you or your group know about
your problem or challenge. (WWWWWHand using all
the senses) Fourth Step Take items/details/aspect
s from the first list and FORCE FIT them to
features Or details from the second list. Your
goal is to see if the features from The randomly
chosen, unrelated thing/animal sparks ideas for
improving, Changing, correcting features of the
problem.
A traditional example or warm-up for doing this
consists of 1st. Ask the person or group to
write everything they know about a canary (or a
bird in their country. 2nd. Ask the person or
group to write everything they know about the
chair they are sitting in. 3rd. Then I ask them
to combine (FORCE FIT or make a FORCED
Relationship) one item from the canary list with
The chairs list with the goal to improve,
change, correct the chair design or to generate
ideas for designing the ultimate chair.


Feathers-Soft chair is hard make seat
soft Yellow chair is ship gray add color
Divergent Thinking Tool
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Idea Grids First Step With this Cre8ng Tool we
first generate 12 to 24 ideas through
Brainstorming or any other technique. Second
Step Then draw a grid made up of as many vertical
and horizontal Cells as you have ideas. Third
Step Combine the ideas on the vertical side of
the grid With the ideas on the horizontal side
one by one and write them into the separate boxes
where the two ideas meet.. 6 ideas can Then
produce 36 ideas, 12 can produce 24, 100 -
10,000 Fourth Step Read over the ideas you have
produced and select the best to work on to turn
them into HOT SOLUTIONS to use.
Sample
Ideas 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Idea 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.


Idea 2
Idea 4
Vertical 2 make the chair out of
wood Horizontal 4 make the color
changeable Ideas might be.cover, removable film
or skin
Divergent Thinking Tool
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Idea or Morphological Grids This is a
logical/left-brain convergent tool that can be
used to generate large numbers of ideas. 6
columns of 10 examples of each variable can
produce 1,000,000 possible combinations. First
Step Generate list of variables of problem or
story Second Step Generate lists for each of the
variables i.e. heroes cowboy, Rancher,
sheriff, shopkeeper, teacher, minister. Third
Step Number each list for each variable 1 to 2 to
3 to ... Fourth Step Randomly pick one number
for each variable column from 1 to ? Fifth
Step Then write a story using one from each of
the columns
Variables of story
locations
heroines
crimes
heroes
villians
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Sample
Divergent Thinking Tool
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CONVERGENT TOOLS Guiding teams from ideas to
solutions
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Value Grids This is a logical/left-brain
convergent tool that can be used to select ideas
to turn into solutions First Step Generate
ideas Second Step Select a workable number of
ideas you or the group like Third Step Generate
a list of values that final solution can be
evaluated with. Fourth Step Examine each idea
one by one for each value. Or Examine each value
one by one comparing the chairs. Fifth Step If
one idea ends up better from the analysis than
one that you or the group have a strong feeling
for then go back and re-evaluate the weak areas
and strengthen or change them.
Sample
Values 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Idea A. B. C. D. E.


Idea B
Value 4
Idea B make the chair out of wood Value 4
better aesthetics Wood would make it easier to
tool, the grain will Give a natural beauty to the
chair
Convergent Thinking Tool
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• PCP Pluses / Concerns / Potentials
• Pluses/Concerns/Potentials a convergent thinking
  tool used for analyzing a list or group of ideas
  that have been generated by an individual or a
  group.
• First Step
• Narrow down the number of ideas to a comfortable
• number (3 to 6)
• Second Step
• Then one by one write out 3 lists of thoughts
  about each idea.
• Pluses of the ideas
• Concerns
• Potentials
• Third Step
• Then compare the results.
• Fourth Step
• If one idea falls behind the others yet the group
  seems more excited about it or committed to it,
  then go over each of the concerns and think of
  ways to eliminate or strength them with that
  idea.

Sample
Idea 1 Make the chair out of XXX plastic and
apply electrical lighting to it. Pluses -
Plastic will be cheaper Lighting will make it
more useable The plastic will provide more color
options Concerns - We have no experience with
plastic Electrical wiring will add cost It may be
too easily tipped over Potentials - Could lead
to a product that could be sold anywhere in the
world. Could expand our technical
capacities Could open up new markets for our
other products.

Convergent Thinking Tool
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Hits Misses Hits Misses is a convergent
thinking tool used for quickly choosing ideas
from several that have been generated. First
Step Generate many ideas.24, 48, 144..on
Post-It notes or slips of paper or index cards or
simply write them on a surface where everyone can
see them easily. Second Step Tell the group to
go up and scan the total group of ideas and mark
which ones their gut tells them is a hit. No
discussion. Just simply read and react. Or Tell
the group to go up and move the ideas they think
are HITS to an area labeled HITS and the MISSES
to another area labeled thus. Leave the NOT
SURE ones where they are. Third Step Then
discuss, organize by popularity, group, cluster
the ideas by categories. Fourth Step Select the
one or more that can be used at the same time or
the ones that can be combined into a single idea
Sample
Hits
Unsure?
Misses
Convergent Thinking Tool
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Being creative is a choice a daily
choice! Individuals, leaders, entire
organizations can make the choice.
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May all of you as individuals leaders make the
choice to be...
Creative
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And may all your organizations and companies
become
Creative
Communities
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End of Session QAs
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Thank You
Nandri Terima Kasih Thank you lah No worry mate
Danke Merci Gratis Xie xie ni
Grazie Abrigado Gracias Origato
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Further Information
Robert Alan Black, Ph.D., CSP Cre8ng People,
Places Possibilities P. O. Box 5805 Athens,
Georgia 30604 alan_at_cre8ng.com
http//www.cre8ng.com