5. In today’s business world, creative thinking and Innovation are more important than ever. More and more success is determined by our ability to come up with new ideas, innovative and creative solutions to opportunities. It’s all about thinking differently and more often than not we just need a bit of prodding to do just that.

6. YOU NEED... to succeed or to maintain a level of success. To create, to change, to grow and to excel. You need ideas to improve operational efficiency and save money, ideas for new products and services that give more value to your clients. Ideas for marketing to sell your products more effectively. You need ideas to stand apart from the competition.

8. If you don’t execute your ideas... they’ll die

9. Our lives are the result of our choices. We can choose either to live our lives or to let others live them for us.

10. E+R = O E+R = O Event + Response = Outcome We have very little control over some of the events that happen in our life, but we do have control over our response to the event. If we respond negatively, then our outcome will be a negative one. If we respond in a positive way, our outcome will be positive.

11. Use your creative imagination to explore new applications. New ways of doing things that have the principal based power to translate dreaming... to doing.

12. Words of Wisdom  Pay yourself first  Hire up  Become less reactive and more responsive  Work on the premise of knowing instead of believing  Surround yourself with experts  Be willing to change  Leave an impression  Wait for inspiration  Laugh at your mistakes  Ask for what you want  Let go of fearful thoughts  Think Big!  Change what you can, accept the things you can’t change  Don’t panic!  Create from the inside out  Be willing to take advice  Banish your doubts  Have a plan

13. What Is Creativity? An ability to imagine and/or create something new. Thinking and behaving with both subjectivity and objectivity. It’s a combination of feeling and knowing. An ability …to imagine and/or create something new. Thinking and behaving with both subjectivity and objectivity. It’s a combination of feeling and knowing. An attitude … the ability to accept change. A willingness to play with ideas & possibilities. A flexibility of outlook. Enjoying the good, while looking for ways to improve it. A process … creative people work to improve ideas and solutions, by making gradual alterations and refinements. They look at a problem from a number of perspectives.

14. EVOLUTION EVOLUTION SYNTHESIS SYNTHESIS REVOLUTION REVOLUTION REAPPLICATION REAPPLICATION CHANGING DIRECTION CHANGING DIRECTION REVERSAL REVERSAL WHAT- IFFING WHAT- IFFING FUNCTIONAL FIXATION FUNCTIONAL FIXATION

15. utility significance Design is a combination of utility and significance. For business, it’s no longer enough to create a product/service that’s reasonably priced and adequately functional. It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful. It has to reach out and trigger some emotion.

16. The best way to boost your creativity is to boost the communication flow between your two brain hemispheres: During the creative process, our left and right brains are focused on the problem, exchanging information back and forth in a form of a “partnership.”

19. 18 th Century…Agricultural Age (farmers) 19 th Century…Industrial Age (factory workers) 20 th Century…Information Age (knowledge workers) 21 st Century…Conceptual Age (creators, inventors, visionaries, designers, story-tellers and empathizers )

20. Follow your vision ! Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of our action. It’s the ability to see beyond our present reality to create or invent that what does not yet exist.

21. More then any other factor, vision affects the choices we make and the way we use our time.

22. The key is not in spending time… but investing in it!

23. “If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life” If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life”

24. “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” James Allen

26. Success Originates in the Mind

27. YOUR ECONOMIC SECURITY does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce, to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s financial independence.

28. The best way to see the future… is to CREATE it!

30. “When you put a limit on what you will do... you have put a limit on what you can do” Bobby Layne

33. The problem is not that people aim to high in life and miss. It’s that they aim to low and hit!

34. Develop your imagination. You can use it to create in your mind what you hope to create in your life.

35. A journey of a 1000 miles begins with one step… start walking!

36. Creating Ideas To Creating Wealth Thank you for taking the time to view this power point presentation. For more information on “Creating Ideas To Creating Wealth” empowerment program, please call 905 227-5432, or e-mail info@ccthink.com Thank you

38. According to a survey by training and consulting firm Genesis Training Solutions of the US, 92 percent of professionals say that creativity will be critical to sales success in the 21st century. Further studies by Sales and Marketing Management showed that 95 percent of the workers want to be more creative on the job. Why are most workers not creative then? The reasons are that they do not know how to apply their creativity and that they work in very structured environments where creativity is not encouraged. The studies concluded that if your organization wants great performance, then you have to find ways to feed the creativity of your workers. In Japan, the Nomura Institute's proposition is that "Creativity will be the next economic activity, replacing the current focus on information. Historically, agriculture, industrial production and information were the dominant spheres of human economic activity. This prediction places creativity in the category of historically significant paradigms that have shaped human economic history from the beginning of time. Thus, just as the industrial revolution replaced agriculture as the dominant economic activity, creativity will replace the "information age" as the next dominant global economic focus." The sophisticated use of information will create intellectual assets that will drive the development of products and services offering new value, greatly altering the shape of the economy and society. And in the process, companies and society will be challenged to develop new structures and new ways of doing things." (Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.)

39. Not everyone sees the same thing. Do you see the old lady or the young lady?

40. Most successful companies communicate their message to their employees… not their customers

41. “Imagination is more important than knowledge” Albert Einstein

42. Because it drives growth, generates new ideas, creates breakthroughs and brings to the world something that didn't exist before. An innovative work environment instills energy in people, allowing them to be creative and, in turn, inspiring others. It's a cycle of success! Why is creativity and innovation so important to you and/or business?

43. BY SHIFTING THE CONTEXTS IN WHICH YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU'LL DISCOVER NEW...

44. Good management, without creative effective leadership…is like straightening the deck chairs on the Titanic

45. 12 Reasons Why Creativity Is So Important 1. Develop Your Potential Beyond the Boundaries of Intelligence. Expand on your abilities. Develop all of your potential 2. Rapid Growth of Competition in Business and Industry. In a world of increasing complexity, change and competition, generating new ideas and bringing them to market is now seen as the central task of corporate management. Successful businesses are the ones that instill creativity throughout the organization. 3. Effective Use of Human Resources. Creativity is a human resource which exists in all organizations. To survive in today’s economy, it is imperative for an organization to nurture the creative potential of its human resources. 4. Discover New and Better Ways to Solve Problems. More and more, the problems you face are complex and open-ended. Knowledge alone isn’t enough to reach innovative solutions. Creative thinking skills are required. 5. Development of Society. Creativity is a central factor in our ability to continue to adapt to the changing environment. If a nation actively seeks to nurture creativity, it will play a part in making history. 6. Builds on the Nature of Knowledge. Creativity skills can assist an individual in enhancing his or her knowledge base. Without creative thinking, an individual is condemned to stay within the knowledge base as it is given. 7. Natural Human Phenomenon. Creativity is very democratic! Everyone has some, but to varying levels and degrees. Furthermore, we know this ability can be enhanced. 8. Important Aspect of Mental Health. Individuals who are capable of incorporating creativity into their lives can enjoy the experience of discovering, developing, and utilizing their many talents. Skills relevant to creativity are also useful in coping with life’s challenges. There is no doubt, creative thinking is a critical life skill. 9. Growing Body of Interest. There is a growing body of literature that represents impressive progress in understanding the nature of creativity. Moreover, there have been a large number of national and international conferences on creativity for over 50 years. 10. Builds on All Disciplines. Creativity is in all fields- from chemistry to engineering, manufacturing, education to computer science, sociology to business. 11. Contributes to Effective Leadership. It is the application of creativity skills that distinguishes a manager who maintains the status quo from a leader who supplies a new direction or vision. By internalizing the spirit of creativity and the principles of creative problem solving, an individual can be transformed into a changed leader. 12. Enhance the Process of Learning. The nature of learning requires the use of skills associated with creativity. Educators adopt a creative approach to teaching are more likely to deliver content and create a learning environment that develops higher ordering thinking skills.

46. 1. A variety of participants with different backgrounds and areas of specialization. 2. The right kind of leader. Creative teams are potentially great. They allow a group of people to capitalize on the combined creativity of the entire team. Members build on each others' ideas and push everyone to stretch their ideas. However, in order to work, creative teams need two things: Leadership

47. 1. Directed toward the future 2.Usable today 3. Firmly grounded in the past 4. Stable yet flexible to changing environments 5. Easily understood 6. Well promoted To Achieve A Shared Vision it needs to be...

48. This is the method of incremental improvement. New ideas derive from other ideas, new solutions from previous ones, the new ones slightly improved over the old ones This is the method of incremental improvement. New ideas derive from other ideas, new solutions from previous ones, the new ones slightly improved over the old ones.

49. Two or more existing ideas are combined into a third new idea

51. Sometimes the best new idea is a completely different one

52. Reapplication Look at something old in a new way Go beyond labels Remove prejudices, expectations and assumptions Discover how something can be reapplied See beyond the previous or stated applications for some idea/solution, and see what other application is possible

53. When attention is shifted from one angle of a problem to another... This is called Creative insight Changing Direction

54. Brainstorming is an idea generating technique. It’s main goals are... 1. To break us out of our habit-bound thinking 2. To produce a set of ideas from which we can choose

55. Four Basic Guidelines for Brainstorming

56. Tag on Tag on Quantity of ideas Quantity of ideas Suspend judgement Suspend judgement Think freely Think freely

57. 1. Choose a recorder 2. Organize the panel 3. Keep the session relaxed and fun 4. Limit the session 5. Make copies 6. Add and evaluate Practical Methodology

58. Idea Generating Questions 1. WHO? 2. WHAT? 3. WHEN? 4.WHERE? 5. WHY? 6. HOW? Who is involved? What are the people aspects of the problem? Who did it, will do it? Who uses it? Who wants it? Who will benefit, will be injured, will be included, who will be excluded? What should happen? What is it? What was done, ought to be done, was not done? What will be done if X happens? What went or could go wrong? What resulted in success? When will, did, should this occur or be performed? Can it be hurried or delayed? Is a sooner or later time be preferable? When should the time be if X happens? Where did, will, should this occur or be performed? Where else is a possibility? Where else did the same thing happen, should the same thing happen? Are other places affected, endangered, protected, aided by this location? Why was or is this done, avoided, permitted? Why should it be done, avoided, permitted? How was it, could it be, should it be done, prevented, destroyed, made, improved, altered? How can it be described, understood? How did beginning lead to conclusion?

59. Historical Examination These questions are very useful for generating ideas for improving something Essence... Origin... Purpose... Import... Reputation...

60. Improvements “Improvements to” is the counterpart of “uses for” “ Uses for” concentrates on using a given item, often unchanged, for multiple purposes different from the item’s original purpose. “Improvements to” focuses on altering an item to enhance its original, given purpose.

61. Attribute Analysis The process of breaking down a problem, idea, or thing into attribute or component parts and then thinking about the attributes rather than the thing itself

62. Discovering attributes can be aided by the use of checklists Physical: color, weight, material, speed, odor, size, structure, taste Psychological: appearance, symbolism, emotive ("happy smell of detergent") Functional: intended uses, applications, how it does what it does People: who's involved Miscellaneous: cost, reputation, origin, class it belongs to, definition

63. Morphological Analysis Morphological Analysis builds upon attribute analysis by generating alternatives for each attribute, thereby producing new possibilities

64. One of the major blocks to creativity is the minds firm grasp on reality. It keeps us from thinking beyond what we know to be true. “What if” is a tool for activating the right brain and freeing us from being blocked by reality. What if?

65. The reversal method for examining a problem or generating new ideas takes a situation as it is and turns it around, inside out, backwards, upside down, etc.

66. A trigger concept is an idea creating technique operated by bringing an unrelated idea into the problem and forcing connections or similarities between the two

67. Sources of Blocking Functional Fixation arises when someone is unable to see beyond the historical or accepted use for an item, often identified by its name or label.

68. BLOCK BUSTING TECHNIQUES Uses for... Think of an object or an item, something fairly common like a hammer, pencil, toothpick etc and think of all the possible uses for that object other than what it is normally used for.

69. Create Your Success with...

71. The Five Senses 1.Touch 1.Touch: 2.Taste 3. Smell: 4. Sound: 5. Sight: Feeling, texture, pressure, temperature, vibration Flavour, sweet, bitter, salty Aroma, odor Hearing, speech, noise, music Vision, brightness, colour, movement, symbol

72. Human Needs I. Physical Comfort: 2. Emotional Comfort: 3. Social Comfort: 4. Psychological Comfort: 5. Spiritual Comfort : Food, clothing, shelter, warmth, health Safety, security, freedom from fear, love Fellowship, friendship, group activity Self-esteem, praise, recognition, power, self-determination, life control Belief structure, cosmic organizing principal

73. Shape Colour Texture Material Weight Hardness/Softness Flexibility Stability Usefulness State

75. Ways To Improve Something Simplify (remove complexity) Apply to new use Automate Reduce cost Make easier to use/understand Reduce fear to own/use Make safer Give more performance/capacity Make portable Make faster, less waiting Provide more durability and reliability Give better appearance Add features, functions Integrate functions Make more versatile Make lighter/heavier weight Make smaller/larger Make quieter