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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 Creativity
To 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.
The latest volume in the series: Fostering Creativity
To 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.
Price: $9.95
Pages: 96
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Series: Pocket Mentor
Publication Date:
01 March 2010
Trim Size: 7.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781422128930
Format: Paperback
Contents
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 group.
Step 2: Identify Opportunities
Suggestions for finding opportunities to exploit.
Step 3: Generate Options
Powerful tactics for producing a rich array of options.
Step 4: Converge on the One Best Option
How to arrive at the one best choice.
Tips 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.
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 group.
Step 2: Identify Opportunities
Suggestions for finding opportunities to exploit.
Step 3: Generate Options
Powerful tactics for producing a rich array of options.
Step 4: Converge on the One Best Option
How to arrive at the one best choice.
Tips 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.