1. The A-Ha! Moment Fostering creativity and innovation A UQ Leadership Community event Tamma Sorbello, Organisational Development

2. How I feel about my ability to be creative and innovative
What does creativity mean
to you?
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3. What conditions support your creativity?

4. Your invitation for today…

10. Creative thinking ?

12. What is the sum of 5 and 5? What two numbers add up to 10?

13. Break the problem into parts
Turn things around
Break the problem into parts

14. Look for inspiration outside of your own area
Look for links between unrelated things

15. What would you do if you were someone else?
How would you explain the problem to a person who knows nothing about it?
What would you do if you were someone else?

16. Structuring creative thinking

17. Parallel thinking A structured process of cooperative exploration
6 thinking perspectives
Rather than debate/opposition
Looking ‘in parallel’
My view
Your view
My view
My view
Your view
Your view
Their view
Their view

18. All students are guaranteed entry to the university of their choice
6 thinking hats
White hat
Information, facts, data
No argument/judgement Describe 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?
All students are guaranteed entry to the university of their choice
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?

21. Types of innovation Product Process Position Paradigm
Incremental
Radical
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?

22. Types of innovation Product Process Position Paradigm Radical
Incremental
Radical
Product
Process
Position
Paradigm

23. Your opportunities…
Something in your workplace that frustrates you, or that could be better
What are the opportunities to improve?
Product
Process
Position
Paradigm

24. 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?

25. 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 …
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

26. 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?

27. UQ Leadership Community
Tamma Sorbello:

28. Credit where it’s due
Mindmaps: Learning Fundamentals
Six Thinking Hats: Edward de Bono
4 P’s of innovation: Tidd, Bessant & Pavitt
Images (mostly): Marc Heleven