Breakthrough Creativity: How to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership
Overview: Organizations that integrate creativity into their DNA achieve significant benefits, including better team performance, increased flexibility, greater retention rates, creative problem solving, and strategic decision making. And when it comes to leadership, creativity is the key to gaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace. But just as there are multiple styles of intelligence, there are multiple styles of creativity that produce different yet equally valuable results. Variations in how individuals look at the world, gather information, and respond to challenges all have an impact on creative contributions. That’s why self-discovery is an important first step in realizing a leader’s creative potential. Join creativity and leadership development expert Dr. Lynne Levesque for an hour-long exploration of creativity in the workplace. She’ll discuss how creative talents impact a leader’s performance, introduce eight creative talents, and offer a practical framework you can use to accelerate the growth of creative strengths in leaders and their teams.
Participants Will Learn
What it means to be creative as a leader—and why it’s critical to performance
The different ways leaders can be creative
How the eight creative talents work on a team
How to apply the eight creative talents to inventive problem solving, strategic decision making, and resilient change management 1
Presenter
Lynne C. Levesque, Ed.D.
Dr. Lynne Levesque is a leadership and creativity consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to launching her consulting and training practice, she was a vice president at Bank of America. Lynne also spent several years as a senior researcher at the Harvard Business School. She is the author of Breakthrough Creativity: Achieving Top Performance Using the Eight Creative Talents and the Breakthrough Creativity Profile, as well as several cases and articles. Lynne holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, an M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Lynne C. Levesque, Ed.D. LEADERSHIP AND CREATIVITY CONSULTANT
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Breakthrough Creativity: How to Use Your Talents for More Creative Leadership
Presented by Dr. Lynne Levesque, author of the Breakthrough Creativity Profile
Click to edit Master Forum title style Top 10 Skills – 2016 World Economic
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Benefits of Creativity Clickfor to edit Leaders Master title style • More inventive decisions, strategies, and solutions.
• Heightened ability to communicate and motivate.
• Increased personal resilience. • Greater comfort with risk, experimentation, and ambiguity.
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Appreciate the breadth and depth around creativity.
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See the power of creativity for more effective leadership.
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Apply new knowledge to leadership development programs.
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Poll #1
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Are you a creative leader?
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Click to edit Master title style 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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How do you define creativity? Please use your ‘questions’ window to share your definition.
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Click to edit Master title style Creativity—A Definition
The ability to consciously produce different and valuable results.
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Click to edit Master title style 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. 13
Creativity and Leadership Click to edit Require Master title style It’s a balancing act! Perception
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Click to edit Master title style 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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ClickTypes to edit Master title style Jung’s Psychological • Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist (1875–1961) Four Functions
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Click to edit Master title style Eight Creative Talents Jung’s Psychological Types
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Click to edit Master title style Eight Creative Talents Adventurer Skilled Improviser
Inventor Paradigm Shifter Poet Thoughtful Counselor
Explorer Energetic Catalyst Navigator Pragmatic Adapter
Visionary Insightful Futurist
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Click to edit Master title style Eight Creative Talents • 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
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How are you a creative leader from a data-collecting perspective?
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Click to edit Master title style 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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Click Adapter to edit Master title style Navigator: Pragmatic
• 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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Click to edit Master title style Explorer: Energetic Catalyst • 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.
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ClickFuturist to edit Master title style Visionary: Insightful • 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.
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How are you a creative leader from a decision-making perspective?
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Click to edit Master title style Pilot: Analytical Strategist • 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.
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Click to edit Master title style 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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Click to edit Master title style Diplomat: Collaborative Negotiator • 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.
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Poll #4
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Now, how creative are you as a leader?
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ClickMore to edit MasterLeaders title style Steps for Developing Creative • 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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ClickTeams to edit Master title style Creative Talents and • 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
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• 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?
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Click to edit Master title style “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
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