Creativity Techniques and Team Effectiveness
with Edward Glassman, PhD
Edward Glassman, PhD, (retired) was the President of The Creativity College®, a division of Leadership Consulting Services, Inc. and former Professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he headed the Program For Team Effectiveness And Creativity.
A former Guggenheim Fellow at Stanford University and a Visiting Fellow at The Center For Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. He led scores of creative thinking meetings and workshops for large and small organizations, including DuPont; Amoco Chemical; IBM; Texaco; Ciba-Geigy; Hoechst-Celanese; Milliken; Federal-Mogul; Calreco/Carnation; A.T.&T. Bell laboratories; Standard Products; Eastman Chemical; Thetford; Lucas Engineering (UK); and numerous others.
Can government be creative?
Some in government want to foster more innovation.
Habits managers need to change
to help foster creativity at work.
Idea-generating brainwriting techniques
Dream interruption, clustering brainwriting, and brainwriting circles.
Identifying new products
In creativity & innovation meetings.
Improve your creative output
By improving your ideas.
Ed Glassman Interview
Read Ed's responses to questions about his career, books, and where he's headed in this 20 Questions interview.
Brainstorming Isn't Creative Enough Anymore
Using old fashioned ways of waiting for ideas results in a low probability of success when seeking the highest quality solution. So move into the 'Age Of Modern Creative Thinking Techniques.'
Building Teams to Help Creativity at Work
Open feedback will improve the ability of the team to work together, increase performance, stimulate creativity, and creative thinking.
10 Ways to Chair Meetings to Foster a Creative Atmosphere and Help Creative Thinking
These suggestions to the chair can make a great deal of difference to the success of the meeting.
Creativity & Innovation Meetings: I. Solve Important Problems of Your Organization
Advanced creative thinking techniques can produce unexpected new and useful ideas in your organization.
Creativity & Innovation Meetings: II. Designing The Meeting
To ensure the highest quality solutions and success, I build the following into every Creativity & Innovation Meeting design.
Creativity & Innovation Meetings: III. Creativity Techniques
Steps and techniques of creative thinking to achieve the highest quality solutions to a problem.
Two Creativity Triggers to Jumpstart Idea Generation
Unblock Your Writing and Idea-Generating Blocks.
Warm-ups Stir Your Creativity
17 Warm ups; fun creativity triggers to get your creative mind ready and in the mood.
Overcoming Resistance to Creativity Triggers in a Low-Creative Team
What keeps you from using creativity triggers to boost creative thinking with your team?
Ways to Shift Paradigms & Think Outside the Box
As a team leader, help the people in your work group think more creatively.
Useful Creativity Triggers While Working Alone
Use this useful sequence of idea-generating creativity triggers when working alone.
Team Interaction Patterns: Who Talks Most and to Whom
Patterns of team interaction during meetings greatly affect the team's communication, and, in turn, the creativeness of its members.
Good Relationships Improve Creative Output & Innovation
50% of R&D scientists and engineers wrote that "other people" were the biggest help to their creativity at work.
Mind Ruts & Paradigms
The "Half of Eight" challenge.
Pre-Workshop Innovation Questionnaire
The pre-workshop questionnaire I ask participants to fill out prior to a workshop or to a Creativity & Innovation Meeting.
If You Always Do What You Have Always Done...
The quiet revolution in creative thinking.
A Paradigm Shift: The Sound of One Hand Clapping
This article is the result of trigger-ideas and paradigm shifts sparked by reading about a dozen books on Zen.
Listening to New Ideas at Work
Ways to give honest opinions without spoiling creative thinking and stifling people's desire to present new ideas.
There's More Than One Way To Think Creatively At Work
What is your creative thinking at work like? I am fascinated by the things creative people say about their own creative processes.
Creativity & Innovation Depends On Your Leadership Interactions With Your Team
Creativity & innovation depend on your leadership styles, your roles and behaviors with your subordinates. Four useful styles exist, each with effective behaviors.
How Self-Direction & Self-Motivation Helps Innovation & Team Creativity
Leaders do not always know how to boost creative effort in their team. These suggestions can help.
How to Use Linear & Non-Linear Bizarre Ideas to Produce a Useful, Unexpected Innovation
Creativity at work is a process of combining old information and old ideas into New & Useful ideas.
Nurture The Creative Flame at Work
Research has shown that people turn out work that is more creative & innovative if they are internally motivated.
Helping Your Team's Creativity at Work
Helping your team's creativity at work — research to stimulate more interaction, idea sharing, and on-the-job creativity.
Climb the Problem-Solving Ladder
Eight rungs to analyzing problems, listing and combining ideas, and creating solution-oriented action plans.
Creativity Triggers for College Students
All college students are creative. Unfortunately almost all students attempt creative thinking without training.
Forced Creativity Combinations for the Arts
Creativity flourishes best in a zany atmosphere where all ideas, even bizarre ones, survive beyond the initial, usual Quick Negative Evaluation.
Stimulate Creativity in Team Meetings
Use advanced creativity techniques during meetings of your team.
Creativity as a Learnable Skill
Do you lack the ability to be creative?
The Dark Side of Creativity
Are original thinkers more dishonest?
Enhance the Creative Climate Around You
A creative climate focuses attitudes and behaviors that lead to the freer use of everyone's ideas.
Enhancing Creativity in Children
Teaching, role modeling, and fostering creative thinking.
Constructively Evaluate a Creative Idea
Using Like-Improve Analysis.
Everyday Creativity and Card Magic
There I was, writing about the secret behind a fine trick, and it finally struck me as immensely creative.
Future fantasy techniques
Creativity techniques that involve 'future fantasy' produce unexpected, high quality solutions to complex problems.
What is Creativity?
A look at how creativity engages through triggers.
Useful Creativity Triggers While Working Alone
A useful sequence of idea-generating creativity triggers.
Anti-Creativity Forces vs Creativity Triggers
Anti-creativity forces constitute our cultural mind-ruts and are very difficult to weed out.
Anti-Creativity Habits and a Fun Puzzle
Anti-creativity habits inhibit spontaneity and repress our wit and humor.
Assess How Your Team Helps Creativity
This approach can make a difference to the teamwork, commitment, and effectiveness of your team.
Assess Your Creativity Habits
On a scale of 1 to 5, identify the factors that hinder your creativity at work.
Brainwriting Techniques
Brainwriting approaches that yield exciting ideas that may be used by individuals and groups.
Creativity techniques that involve 'future fantasy' produce unexpected, high quality solutions to complex problems.
What is Creativity?
A look at how creativity engages through triggers.
Useful Creativity Triggers While Working Alone
A useful sequence of idea-generating creativity triggers.
Anti-Creativity Forces vs Creativity Triggers
Anti-creativity forces constitute our cultural mind-ruts and are very difficult to weed out.
Anti-Creativity Habits and a Fun Puzzle
Anti-creativity habits inhibit spontaneity and repress our wit and humor.
Assess How Your Team Helps Creativity
This approach can make a difference to the teamwork, commitment, and effectiveness of your team.
Assess Your Creativity Habits
On a scale of 1 to 5, identify the factors that hinder your creativity at work.
Brainwriting Techniques
Brainwriting approaches that yield exciting ideas that may be used by individuals and groups.