The creative thinker's toolkit

Gerard J. Puccio

Sound recording - 2014

According to the latest scientific research, anyone can be creative. You just have to know how to think creatively, which involves taking a more imaginative approach to the challenges we all face. Learn how to wield the same research-based tools that today's creative people use and tap into your inner creative thinker with Professor Puccio's engaging 24-lecture series that takes you step-by-step through the creative-thinking process.

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Published
[Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company [2014]
Language
English
Main Author
Gerard J. Puccio (-)
Edition
[PDF workbook version]
Item Description
"The Great courses, Topic: Professional ; Subtopic: Thinking skills"--Cover.
"Course no. 5955"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format.
Physical Description
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
ISBN
9781490651934
  • Disc 1. The creative person: practice and passion
  • Lateral thinking is a survival skill
  • Disc 2. Creative styles: adaptors and innovators
  • Combining opposites: diverge, then converge
  • Disc 3. Principles for unleashing your imagination
  • Principles for converging on the best ideas
  • Disc 4. Stages of the creative process, and you
  • Clarifying the challenge
  • Disc 5. Clarify even more: webbing and storyboarding
  • Classic brainstorming and brainwriting
  • Disc 6. Tools for enhanced brainstorming
  • Borrowing and modifying ideas
  • Disc 7. Systematic tools to generate new ideas
  • Developing ideas: toward great solutions
  • Disc 8. Prototypes: how designers test ideas
  • Evaluating creative solutions and making decisions
  • Disc 9. Giving ideas legs: implementation planning
  • Persuasion and the selling of new ideas
  • Disc 10. Tools for bringing it all together
  • Lifting the emotional lid on creativity
  • Disc 11. The environment: physical and psychological
  • Creative leadership: regardless of title
  • Disc 12. Overcoming blocks and barriers
  • Living a creative life.