Observation and Objectives/Making Assumptions

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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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Course 1 of 3 in the 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.

From the lesson

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

Meet the Instructors

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

Welcome to our last module in the self-awareness course.

As we told the other modules,

I'd like to begin today with my leadership observation.

Leadership is not a spectator sport.

You have to play in order to be successful.

We'll come back and

revisit another part of that observation at the end of the module.

For now, let's begin our discussion of problem solving.

Here are objectives for the module,

understanding the differences between analytical and creative problem solving.

These are the two techniques that you'll be using throughout most

of your experience and work as a practicing engineering leader.

We're going to want to use the creative problem solving process.

And while we're doing that, learn how to overcome the barriers to creativity.

We will want to assess your creative style.

This will be one of the assessments that you'll be doing as part of this module.

And lastly, we'll review some brainstorming techniques that you can use

to help stimulate generating creative, alternative to problems.

Let's now continue with, how do we deal with information gaps?

As we look at both analytical problem solving and creative problem solving,

we don't always have all the information that we'll need to solve the problem.

So where do we get that information?

How do we fill the gaps so that we can proceed effectively to solve problems?

Well, the answer is, we make assumptions.

Where do those assumptions come from?

They come from our personal experiences, our values,

our observations on how things work in the world around us.

If you doubt that you make assumptions,

I'd like to share with you in a moment a picture.

As you look at that picture, you will recognize that you respond to it in

a certain way based on your expectations about what might happen next.

So, with that in mind, take a look.

As you look at this picture, think about what you're feeling, what you know

from your personal experiences might be going on, and might happen next.

While making assumptions is useful in solving creative problems,

it can also be a pitfall.

Obviously, we don't have the context for this picture.

We don't have all of the information we might need, only a small portion of it.

And that in itself can be a pitfall as we approach solving creative problems.

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