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Presented by Dr. Lynne Levesque, author of the Breakthrough Creativity Profile

Breakthrough Creativity:How to Use Your Talents for More Creative LeadershipBreakthrough Creativity:How to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership


“Creativity is the most important leadership quality.”

~ 2010 IBM Global CEO Study


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Benefits of Creativity for Leaders

• More inventive decisions, strategies, and solutions.

• Greater comfort with risk, experimentation, and ambiguity.

• Heightened ability to communicate and motivate.

• Increased personal resilience.

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Today’s Objectives

• Appreciate the breadth and depth around creativity.

• See the power of creativity for more effective leadership.

• Apply new knowledge to leadership development programs.


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Poll #1

Are you a creative leader?

a) I am a very creative leader.

b) I am a somewhat creative leader.

c) I am not sure if I am a creative leader.

d) No, I’ve never thought of myself as a creative leader.


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Key Principles: Creativity

We are all creative.

Creativity must be broadly defined.

There is no ideal model or one best way to be creative.

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Tell Us

How do you define creativity?

Please use your chat window to share your definition.


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Creativity—A Definition

The ability to consciously produce different and valuable results.


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Key Principles: High-Performance Leadership

Effective leadership requires versatility.

Effective leaders must be strategic and operational.

Effective leaders must be forceful and enabling.

The Versatile Leader by Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser.

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Creativity and Leadership Require

PerceptionPerception JudgmentJudgment&&

ReflectionReflectionActionAction &&

It’s a balancing act!


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Talent—A Definition

A preference for taking in certain kinds of data or for making judgments about data that:

• produces particular creative results.

• makes distinct creative contributions.


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Jung’s Psychological Types

Four Functions Two Orientations

• Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961)

• Eight psychological types• A compass for self-awareness

Collecting Data Making Decisions

Intuiting

Sensing Thinking

Feeling

Extraverted

Introverted

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Eight Creative Talents

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Jung’s Psychological Types

Breakthrough Creativity Approach



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Explorer Energetic Catalyst

Poet Thoughtful Counselor

Navigator Pragmatic Adapter

Pilot Analytical Strategist

Diplomat Collaborative

NegotiatorVisionaryInsightful Futurist

InventorParadigm

Shifter

AdventurerSkilled

Improviser


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• Are equally creative.

• Are all accessible to everyone.

• Impact your creativity differently.• Color how you interpret data.• Shape how you see problems and make decisions.• Fashion your approach to problem solving,

decision making, and leading.

• Are tools for greater leadership.


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Poll #2

How are you a creative leader from a data-collecting perspective?

a) Let me research facts and details on my own.

b) Tell me who, what, where, how, and when.

c) Let’s generate lots of ideas together.

d) Let me ponder this challenge while I go for a walk, wrapped-up in my own imagination.


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Adventurer: Skilled Improviser

• Spontaneous, flexible, curious, and fun-loving.

• Finds skillful ways to get around obstacles and is ready to act.

• Asks practical questions: who, what, where.

• Experimental, opportunistic, improvisational.

• Leadership style: “operational.”

• Can get caught up in the moment, ignore the future, and undervalue process.


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Navigator: Pragmatic Adapter

• Careful, thoughtful, and private.

• Fine-tunes and builds on what others have done.

• Asks practical questions, wants concrete evidence.

• Methodical, incremental approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “operational.”

• Uncomfortable with uncertainty and overly cautious.

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• Loves to brainstorm possibilities with others.

• Inspires ingenuity and discovery.

• Asks about concepts and patterns.

• Future-focused, broad search for opportunities.

• Leadership style: “strategic.”

• Often better at starting ventures than finishing them.

Explorer: Energetic Catalyst


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• Private, thoughtful, and often counterintuitive.

• Finds long-term, breakthrough solutions to problems.

• Asks bold, penetrating, unusual questions.

• Has a multi-disciplined and systemic perspective.

• Leadership style: “strategic.”

• Can neglect relevant facts and details and fail to engage others.

Visionary: Insightful Futurist


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Poll #3

How are you a creative leader from a decision-making perspective?

a) I want to hear from others and get their views to help make up my mind.

b) I focus on my own values to guide my decisions.

c) I use logic and think out loud to organize my decision process.

d) I develop categories in my mind to guide my decisions.

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• Enjoys working with others while leading projects to achieve goals.

• Provides new and different strategies and designs.

• Relishes playing devil’s advocate with the team.

• Structured, logical approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “forceful.”

• May be uncomfortable with the ambiguity around innovation.

Pilot: Analytical Strategist


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Inventor: Paradigm Shifter

• Objective, detached, and private.

• Provides unusual frameworks that often shift thinking.

• Takes a logical, analytical approach to problems and decisions.

• Has an internal blueprint of how things work.

• Leadership style: “quietly forceful.”

• Tends to see things as “either/or”.


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• Enjoys organizing people to achieve common goals.

• Provides caring leadership and builds a safe place for sharing ideas.

• Questions will asks about perspectives of others, worth and importance.

• People-focused innovation approach.

• Leadership style: “enabling.”

• Tends to prefer harmony to conflict.

Diplomat: Collaborative Negotiator

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• Quietly supportive and nurturing.

• Offers safe place for testing out ideas.

• Considers personal values and ideals in questions.

• People and value-focused approach to innovation.

• Leadership style: “quietly enabling.”

• Can overlook points of view that clash with strongly held values.

Poet: Thoughtful Counselor


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Poll #4

Now, how creative are you as a leader?

a) I am more sure of my creativity than ever.

b) I realize I am much more creative than I first thought.

c) I have a much better appreciation of my creativity but still have a lot to learn.

d) Still not sure.


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Steps for Developing More Creative Leaders

• Help them grow awareness of creative strengths and differences and identify obstacles.

• Build a supportive, motivating culture.

• Provide a variety of role models.

• Create action-learning projects and teams.

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Creative Talents and Teams

• Team’s creativity profile has particular strengths and challenges.

• Awareness of profile can:• Improve team’s interactions and creative outcomes.• Help team members grow and develop their creativity

individually and as a team. • Enhance ability to give feedback.• Add more fun.


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Next Steps

• What will you do today to enhance your own creativity as a leader?

• What about with your team?

• What can you do to integrate creativity into leadership development programs?


“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in

having new eyes.”

~ Marcel Proust

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