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How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional Role

✍ Scribed by Oana Velcu-Laitinen


Publisher
Apress
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
360
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


According to the World Economic Forum, creativity is considered to be the third-most-important skill for employees, behind complex problem-solving and critical thinking. This book will help you rethink your creativity and its value in the work life, giving you access to intellectual, emotional, and reputational benefits that were previously unattainable. 
Based on a collection of interviews and research, this book translates the latest findings on the creative beliefs, confidence, and mindset into digestible thoughts for experts with an itch for improvement and innovation in domains like technology, entrepreneurship, and education. It brings a new perspective to creativity by focusing on how individuals can understand their creativity and what the implications are on what they want to achieve. 
How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work is based on the most recent creativity research, which analyzes how creativity plays an important part in the individual's sense of identity.  

What You'll Learn

  • Understand how personal beliefs about the innate creativity are influenced by past experiences
  • See how the creator's personality can be shaped through new habits of curiosity, emotional risk-taking and insight
  • Establish a creative communication style that enables others to navigate smoothly through the challenging moments in a feedback conversation
  • Become an ambitious person with a sense of meaning in the work you do 
  • Identify all the familiar and less familiar in-house creative experts 
Who This Book Is For
The primary reader is a knowledgeable expert, in a creative or less creative role, who is curious to bring a better fit between their inner experiences and the external environment. The secondary audience are the experts in roles like learning and development, people and culture change, and team leads who are interested in facilitating a space where employees feel safe to share their original ideas and express their curiosity. 

✦ Table of Contents


Table of Contents
About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Fit Between Your Creativity and Your Activities
Chapter 1: Four Types of Creators
When There’s Hope, There Are Opportunities to Craft Your Role As a Creator
Chapter 2: Definitions of Personal Creativity
The Outside-In View: How Researchers Study Creativity
Creativity As a Type of Thinking
Creativity As a Process
Creativity As an Outcome
The Inside-Out View: How Recognized Creators Talk About Their Creativity
Chapter 3: For an Updated View on Your Creativity, Make the Implicit Biases Explicit
Two Ways to Relate to Your Creativity
When Trust in Your Creative Capacity Outlasts Authority
Gender Stereotypes That Confuse You About the Roles That Suit Your Creativity
Flexing Creativity Archetypes
Touching Base with the Creativity Formed in School Years
Opening Up to Your Inner Creative Diversity
To Be Creative Is to Think Twice About What You Deem to Be an Appropriate Curiosity to Follow
Chapter 4: Impulses to Create
Four Possible Temptations Toward Creative Activities
Explore Your Creative Drive by Harmonizing the Importance of Creativity for Your Sense of Well-Being and Your Work Role
Narrative 1: Being a Conformist
Narrative 2: You Feel Misunderstood
Narrative 3: You Compare Your Creativity with Others’ Creativity
Big-C Creativity
Pro-C Creativity
Little-c Creativity
Mini-c Creativity
Narrative 4: Creativity Achieved
Chapter 5: Three Pathways to the Discovery of New Creative Impulses
Emotional Availability Is Not Only for Artists
Disrupt Your Patterns of Curiosities
Childhood Activities
Step Outside the Professional Sphere
Use More of the Less Used Senses
Take the Risk to Invest Time in Disruptive Activities
What Will They Think of Me?
When to Expect That Your Actions Will Get the Validation of Your Loved Ones
Balance Your Long-Term Personal Benefits with Others’ Short-Term Benefits
The Goal Is the Internal Shift
Chapter 6: Toward the Workspaces Where New Curiosities Take You
Summary of Part 1
Self-Exploration Exercises: Orienting Yourself to the Next Stage of Creative Self-Development
Part II: Learn to Live Like a Creator
Chapter 7: Allow Your Tiny Genius to Roam Outside Your Comfort Zone
Chapter 8: Crossing Paths with a New Curiosity
A New Creative Curiosity, a New Set of Skills to Master
Chapter 9: Allow Yourself to Create for Different Audiences
The Social Part of “I” Is in Unrest
A Part of the “I” Is Collective
Be Like a Genius; Know When to Be Flexible and When to Persevere
The Flexibility to Make Room for New Curiosities
The Perseverance to Create
Four Personal Needs to Create
The Love of Autonomy
The Desire for Fairness
The Need for Relatedness
The Intention to Leave a Legacy of Personal Values
Chapter 10: Committing to Your Creative Focus
And They Lived Happily Through the Loops of Feedback
Part 2 Summary – Learn to Live Like a Creator
Part III: Priming Your Mind for Creative Insight
Chapter 11: Why Habits of Inner Observation Strengthen the Identity As a Creator
The Attraction Toward a Particular Domain
Take the Creator in You for a Couple of Dates to Observe New Sensitivities
Chapter 12: Follow Your Sense of Beauty
Habit 1: The Discipline of Observing Your Sensitivities
Habit 2: Question Your Interpretations
Habit 3: Cultivate Your Intuition About What Questions to Focus On
What Is Intuition and Why Is It Important?
Optional Exercise 3: The Before and After Trust
How to Discern Your Creative Intuition
Chapter 13: Manage Your Mood to Follow Your Intuition
Habit 4: Emotions, Moods, and Ensuing Stories
Habit 5: Practice Gratitude – When Pleasantly and Unpleasantly Surprised
Habit 6: The Ratio of Self-Judgement to Self-Compassion
Chapter 14: What’s Next? Reassess the Creative Sensitivities That Will Drive You Toward the Next Project
Part IV: Adopt a Creative Communication Style in Feedback Conversations
Chapter 15: The Three Principles of a Creative Communication Style
When and With Whom to Talk About Your Ideas
Become a Participative Storyteller
The Creative Integrity Mindset
Chapter 16: Talking With Humor
What Is Humor?
What Creates Humor?
When Do People Laugh Best?
The Benefits of Positive Humor in Work Contexts
Chapter 17: Leading Feedback Conversations With Improvised Humor
Becoming the Person With a Tinge of Humor
Step 1: Get into a Playful State of Mind
Step 2: Get Ready to Make Room for a Witty Comment
Step 3: Get Flexible to Adapt to an Appropriate Style of Humor
Maintain the Interlocutor’s Sense of Status by Carefully Curating the Content of the Jokes
Practice the Sense of Humor That Fuels People’s Creativity
Is This a Good Moment for Improvised Humor?
How to Manage the Situations When the Interlocutor Is Not Amused
Chapter 18: Listen for Inspiration
What Is an Attitude of Inspiration?
Use Analogies to Sort Out Difficult Concepts and Ideas
Choose Familiar Models of Reference
Check the Internal Consistency of A and B
Ensure That the Comparison Between A and B Is Valid
Chapter 19: Listen for Imagination
What Is Imagination?
Is Imagination the Same As Fantasy?
Three Imagination Activities That Lead to New Ideas
Daydreaming
Mind Wandering
Perspective-taking
Conversed Imagination
The Time Perspective
Engage in Role-Play
Contrasting Beliefs
Falsifying Constraints
The Humor of an Imagination Gap Can Save the Conversation
Part 4 Summary
Conclusions
The Evolving Creator – Mind the Insight and Get to Work
Without an Audience, There’s No Purpose to Create Anything
Index


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