Welcome!Take a seat &

introduce yourself

to the people at

your table.

Share – trials &

tribulations about

recognizing and

developing

innovators in your

organization.

Relate your thinking preferences to innovation

results

Learning Outcomes

Examine how to use FourSight to recognize

and develop innovators

78% of college-educated workers over 25 wish

they had more creative ability.

Some Facts

94% hiring managers consider creativity when

hiring job candidates – creative applicants are

preferred 5-to-1

Globally, CEOs identify creativity as the #1

leadership quality needed for success

Yet, when asked… most people don’t think they

are creative

Sources: Seeking Creative Candidates: Hiring for the Future, Adobe. September 2014. | IBM 2010 Global CEO study;

Creativity powers innovation

The way you prefer to think

impacts the way

you use creativity

to solve challenges

and engage

in innovation

With awareness of these

preferences,

you can

manage and

engage in

innovation

much more

effectively.

Essential Questions:

Who am I?

Who are you?

How might we

work better together

when we

solve challenges and

engage in innovation?

TE

How do you approach a

challenge?Discover your Thinking Profile…

The creative process

Clarify the

Challenge

Generate

Ideas

Develop

Solutions

Implement

Action

Creativity

novelty that’s valuable

Innovation

the implementation of creativity, often requiring

multiple skills sets (i.e. a team or organization)

FourSight Framework

a 4-stage creative process that calls on creativity to produce

innovation

Defining our terms…

FourSight Thinking Profile

Preference does not equal ability

Strong preferences

The pull of preference

• Gain self mastery

• Grow empathy & respect

• Leverage diversity

• Build better teams

• Improve performance

Awareness helps

• Creative thinking is universal

• Steps have unique mental skills

• Thinking preferences

• Gain and lose energy

Research shows

Know your mind

A challenge

Your team

Please form teams of 5 - 7 people

Each team needs

• 1 FourSight box

• A place to work comfortably and away

from others

• Everything you need to

accomplish this challenge is

in this box.

• You have 12 minutes.

• Be ready to comment on

what happened.

The challenge

Time’s up!

We could have

been better at…

At your table…

Here’s what

we did well…

Focusing on the process,

not the product

Interpretive Guide

Understanding your graph

25

20

15

Low Preference

30

35

40

Peak Preference

45

IDEATOR DEVELOPER IMPLEMENTORCLARIFIER

34

42 Peak

Preferences

Low

Preference

Neutral Zone

28

39

Neutral

Preference

Clarifiers

So, what’s a Clarifier?

• Clarifies the problem

• Gathers information

• Looks at details

• Not quick to move to solutions

• Wants to address the right problem

• May over analyze & not move forward

Ideators

So, what’s an Ideator?

• Looks at the big picture

• Plays with possibilities

• Stretches the imagination

• Takes an intuitive approach

• Thinks in more global terms

• May overlook the details

Developers

So, what’s a Developer?

• Examines the pluses and

minuses of an idea

• Analyzes and compares

potential solutions

• Puts together workable solutions

• Plans steps to implement an idea

• May get stuck in developing the

perfect solution

Implementers

So, what’s an Implementer?

• Gives structure to ideas

• Brings ideas come to fruition

• Focuses on workable solutions

• Takes the “Nike”

approach (Just do it!)

• May leap to action too quickly

So, what’s an Integrator?

• Easily relates to each preference

• Even energy across four preferences

• Concerned about group harmony

• Bridges style differences and plugs gaps

• May lose own voice by pleasing others

Multiple preferences

Style differences

• Find a partner

• Share styles

• Identify differences, similarities

• Discuss how this might impact

your working relationship

The way you prefer to think

impacts the way

you use creativity

to solve challenges

and engage

in innovation

With awareness of these preferences,

and how they contribute

to innovation,

you can

manage and

engage in

innovation

much more effectively.

So, what does this mean to recognizing &

developing innovators?

Group

Profile

Team

Report

Date: Jul 29, 2014

Participants: 7

Ask

Look at your team graph. What do you notice? What, if anything, is

surprising? Where does this team need to pay deliberate attention so they

can succeed? Think of a project or challenge this team has recently been

engaged in. Describe how the team approached the project using the team

profile as a guide.

Innovative TeamOrganization: Innovative Team

FourSight Team Profile

FourSight Team Profile The chart above show s the high and low preference expressed by your

team. Note that the numbers in each bar of the chart w ill generally not add up to the total number of

people on your team. The chart only reflects team members w ith high or low preferences in each

area.

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High Preference

Low Preference

CLARIFY IDEATE DEVELOP IMPLEMENT

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3

2

1

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4

3

2

1

0

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4 2 1

Juan Alvarez

Damon Miller

Elaine Cassidy

Kate Murdock-ideator

Tony Martin

Damon Miller

Kate Murdock-ideator

Amy Satori

Juan Alvarez

Amy Satori

Elaine Cassidy

Tony Martin

Juan Alvarez

1 INTEGRATOR ∴ Maya Russo

FourSight

frameworkClarify

Ideate

Develop

Implement

FourSight model: D. Nielsen and S. Thurber

2011, based on G. Puccio and B. Miller 2003

Taking it forward

What was most interesting

or useful for you today?

Liked?

Learned?

Surprised?

How might

you apply it?

You can now access your results online.

Go to https://foursightonline.com/

Learn more

In the top right side of the screen, you’ll see a

grey and white button – Members. Click it.

On the next screen, enter your email address.

Use the email you entered when you originally

completed the FourSight online Assessment.

You’ll see the Dashboard for FourSight Online.

From your Dashboard, you can access

Your Thinking Profile and download a copy for yourself.

Learn some new things about how you uniquely

contribute your creativity to power innovation.

Thank you!

Let’s stay in touch.