Constancy Block In Detail

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Self Awareness and the Effective Leader

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Rice University

Self Awareness and the Effective Leader

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Курс 1 из 3 — Specialization Leadership Development for Engineers

Part of being an effective leader is learning how to play to your strengths and overcome characteristics that don't lend to good leadership practices. During the course, you will examine your own strengths and learn ways to use them in a leadership role. Learn to manage stress and solve problems creatively. Throughout the course, you will also build a tool kit of useful techniques that you can begin using right away in your engineering career. This course is designed for engineers who are interested in and have the desire to advance into leadership and management roles. You don't need any leadership experience to do well in this course. We ask you to reflect on your personal experiences pretty often,, so some work experience will help you in that aspect, but we hope that most of what you learn here will be applicable to many areas of your life.

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Creative Problem Solving

Discuss the differences between analytical and creative problem solving. Develop techniques for encouraging creativity in solving problems while recognizing and overcoming conceptual blocks. We add mind mapping to your toolbox this week for a way to foster personal creativity.

Observation and Objectives/Making Assumptions2:42

Analytical and Creative Problem Solving5:37

Constancy Block In Detail4:01

... The Other Blocks3:19

Overcoming Barriers to Creativity9:15

Conceptual Blocks1:43

Assessing Your Creative Style1:46

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David Van Kleeck
Professor in the Practice of Engineering Leadership
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership

Now that we've introduced the concepts of conceptual blocks to creative thinking,

let's explore each of these in a little more detail,

beginning with the constancy block.

The barriers within the constancy block are vertical thinking,

as opposed to lateral thinking, and

using a single thinking language as opposed to multiple thinking languages.

Vertical thinking is being stuck in a certain way of solving a problem.

Single thinking language is using only words instead of other possible

thinking languages.

And I'll give you examples of those in a moment.

As we look at the vertical way of thinking versus lateral, the term vertical

thinking was coined by Edward de Bono, and I'll compare and contrast those now.

Vertical thinking is much like, and will sound much like,

the analytical problem solving process that we described earlier in this module.

Lateral thinking will be much more characteristic of the creative

solving process.

So this comparison will give you some sense for

the differences between analytical and creative problem solving.

Vertical thinking tends to be concerned with continuity.

Lateral thinking, with discontinuity.

Vertical thinking chooses whereas lateral thinking changes.

Vertical thinking will be concerned with stability

whereas lateral thinking will be concerned with instability.

Vertical thinking searches for

what is right whereas lateral thinking will be searching for what's different.

Differences drive change and stimulate imagination and creativity.

Vertical thinking is very analytical

whereas lateral thinking will be very provocative.

Vertical thinking is concerned where the idea have come from.

The lateral thinking, as you might expect then, focuses on where is the idea going.

Analytical thinking develops the idea.

Lateral thinking is more concerned about discovering new ideas.

So here you see the essence of the difference between,

analytical problem solving and lateral thinking.

Let's move on now to talk about the multiple thinking languages

constancy block.

When we're solving problems we typically express those in terms of words.

If that's the only language that we use, we miss opportunities to express and

develop problems [COUGH] using other thinking languages, like symbols,

sense of smell, visual imagery, and feelings and emotions.

When we're in groups that are trying to solve problems creatively,

we're going to want to try to use all of these techniques

to end up with creative solutions to problems.

The more languages we use,

the more likely we are to come up with a creative solution to the problem.

I'd like to close our discussion of the constancy block with a quick mental test.

We're frequently stuck in ways of thinking, and

this is the classic matchstick problem where you're asked to make

this mathematical expression true by moving only one matchstick.

If we're stuck in a constancy block,

we would have difficulty solving this problem.

However, when we begin to use lateral thinking techniques and

explore other ways of thinking, we might be able to come up with this solution.

As you approach trying to solve problems creatively, be concerned and

aware of the pitfalls of constancy conceptual blocks.

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