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Duration

17 hours

Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Credential

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  • Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
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  • Thinking and doing the same things faster and better is not enough; we need creativity. Fortunately, creativity is a skill you can learn. This course will examine when, why, and how we can be creative. It examines the cues that trigger us to consider being creative. It provides a road map of the creative process ? the process of changing our perspectives ? and the kinds of outcomes that result from creativity. It examines how we can go through the creative process more efficiently and more effectively by examining what is changing about our thinking and how we can make those changes. The end result is more flexible thinking that can be used to recognize and develop new opportunities.

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Curriculum

Course Orientation

Welcome to Creativity Toolkit I: Changing Perspectives!

Meet Professors Loewenstein & Goncalo

Syllabus

ePub

About the Discussion Forums

Updating Your Profile

Orientation Quiz

Creativity is a Core Leadership Skill

Creativity is a Skill You Can Learn

The Creative Process

Knowledge, Stories, and Perspectives

Using, Adding To, Changing, and Building Perspectives

Separating Stories from Perspectives

What Puts Us On the Road to Creativity?

The Impasse Cue

The Dissatisfaction Cue

The Surprise Cue

The Crosstalk Cue

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Module 1 Overview

Module 1 Readings and Resources

Lesson 1-1 Practice Quiz

Lesson 1-2 Practice Quiz

Lesson 1-3 Practice Quiz

Module 1 Quiz

Module 2: Raw Materials and End Products

Ideas and Perspectives

PAGES Exercise

PAGES Exercise Continued

More PAGES

Insights

Inventions

Enlightenments

Module 2 Overview

Module 2 Readings and Resources

Lesson 2-1 Practice Quiz

Lesson 2-2 Practice Quiz

Module 2 Quiz

Module 3: Tools for Thinking

Analogy

Re-categorization

Combination

Association

Module 3 Overview

Module 3 Readings and Resources

Lesson 3-1 Practice Quiz

Lesson 3-2 Practice Quiz

Lesson 3-3 Practice Quiz

Lesson 3-4 Practice Quiz

Module 3 Quiz

Module 4: The Creative Journey

Creativity is a Journey

Reality of Rejection

Why Persist?

Intrinsic Motivation: Interview with Michael Williamson

Module 4 & Course Wrap-Up

Gies Online Programs

Module 4 Overview

Module 4 Readings and Resources

Congratulations!

Lesson 4-1 Practice Quiz

Lesson 4-2 Practice Quiz

Lesson 4-3 Practice Quiz

Module 4 Quiz

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