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Problems emerge to help you get
stronger, not weaker.
Life challenges emerge to help you get
better, not bitter. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING: 3 STEPS
Problem Finding
Your achievement drive is high when you have a burning desire to
perform to the best of your ability. It inspires you to identify and
clarify problems.
Creative dissatisfaction attitude helps you to notice problems and
search for creative solutions. It inspires you to look at something
and say, It can be done differently and better. Use the 5-Why
approach to determine the root cause of a problem.
Critical thinking prompts you you access the assumptions underlying
your own and others ideas and actions. It helps you also understand
the problem in detail.
Creative Solution
Challenge assumption. Learn to unlearn. Ask "Why?" and "What If?"
questions critical thinking works best when you continually ask
yourself, Does this make sense?, If not, what if?. Solve
problems positively. Ask yourself, "What good things this problem
brings to me?
Think outside the box. Remember, nothing makes a person blinder than
a point of view. Strive to see what you and others overlooked. Look
at the things with new eyes to make discoveries. Play with What-If
scenarios.
Evaluate ideas. Use the spiral integration (SPIN) method to
synergize ideas.
Idea Implementation
Sell benefits of the creative solution to decision makers. Make a
prototype, if possible, because prototypes persuade better than
words. Play a simulation game with the idea to prepare to win.
Experiment, learn from feedback and adapt.
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Solve problems positively.
Ask yourself,
"What good things and
opportunities this problem brings to me? Let me
list of them all."
Look wider. If you focus on a barrier to overcome, you miss
opportunities to explore other ways to move forward. |
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Solve problems positively.
Ask yourself,
"What good things and
opportunities this problem brings to me? Let me
list of them all."
Look wider. If you focus on a barrier to overcome, you miss
opportunities to explore other ways to move forward. |
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Problems emerge to help you get
stronger, not weaker.
Life challenges emerge to help you get
better, not bitter. |
Vadim Kotelnikov |
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