Politecnico di Milano > Master of Science in Product Service System Design > Social Sciences for PSSD > AA 2009/2010
Joe Pollak and Daniel Metcalfe Facilitator: Rebecca Pera
What did we learn during the workshop?
> About the creative process > About group work
What did we learn during the workshop?
> About the creative process > About group work
Different strategies for Improving our results:
Which strategies did you use in the workshop? 1. Trial and error (each time we slightly improve the outcomes to the work) 2. Insight, restructuring the problem (we change perspective, we change our strategy entirely)
What are the pros and cons of changing a working strategy? Pros: >Possibility to learn more >New outcomes >New experience >Possibility to achieve leap frog improvements
What are the pros and cons of changing a working strategy? Cons: >Wasting time >Risky >Leaving a comfortable situation >Doesn't always lead to better results
What influenced your creativity during the workshop?
Internal Factors: fear of making mistakes, fear of judgement, low motivation, personality traits – willingness to take risks, to grow, to be open...intellectual abilities such as divergent, analytical and communicational skills
External Factors: time, competition, evaluation, cooperation, constraints * Which of these factors had the greatest influence on your creative process?
Internal factors that influence creativity
Fear: > How do we overcome our fear of making mistakes? > How do we overcome our fear of judgement? > Which other fears hold us back?
Internal factors that influence creativity
Motivation: >What effects our motivation? >How can we exit a state of low motivation? >Are there specific roles within a group that are in charge of keeping the motivation high?
External factors that influence creativity
Time: >how did the lack of time influence your judgment >If you had more time to complete the task, in which phase would you invest it to better your results? -Preparation -Incubation -Insight -Evaluation -Communication
External factors that influence creativity
Rules: >how do rules and constraints effect our creativity? >Which constraints are external and which are internal? >When do we perceive the reinterpretation of rules as cheating and when do we perceive it as creativity? >Which work strategy did you follow (neo-Darwinian or neoLamarkian)? > Are constraints just negative or can they also be positive?
External factors that influence creativity
Competition: >How did the competition influence your creative process? >What happened when there was no direct competition?
External factors that influence creativity
Assets: >Can we create/procure tools that will help us restructure and understand better the problem? *what would the keyboard task look like if you had a map from the beginning?
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> About the creative process > About group work
How do we choose our group mates, by which criteria?
>People we are used to work with >People that have the same way of thinking as we do >People who have complementary skills >????
What are the different roles within a group?
Leaders, Management, Initiator, Trigger, Workers, Doers, Anchor men, Critiques, Lazy, Give Uppers, Dictator, Funny guys, Coffee makers, Opportunists, Rebels, Communicators, Salesmen, Diplomats, Mediator, Negotiator, Messengers, Bad luck bringers, Planners, Strategists, Optimists, Runners, Time keepers, Emotional, Committed, Supporters, Quitters.. *Which one are you?
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What are the different roles within a group?
>Are all the roles within a group of the same level of importance? >What function does each role satisfy? >Do we always preform the same role in the group?
How can we reduce friction within a group?
Is it possible to improve our team working skills?