(Refer our High Quality Management Encyclopedia “Management Universe” at: http://management-universe.blogspot.com/)
(For everything you wanted to know on building leadership and management, refer Shyam Bhatawdekar’s website: http://shyam.bhatawdekar.com)Refer previous five posts to read the detailed explanations on competencies "Result Orientation", "Problem Solving", “Self Confidence”, “Self Development” and "Action Orientation").
Explanation of the Competency “Creativity” - Continually challenges the status quo and yearns to bring about improvement and newness in everything.
- Motivates others to challenge the status quo and to bring about improvement and newness in everything.
- Facilitates to bring out creativity in self and others.
- Contributes new concepts, processes and products.
- Does out of box thinking or lateral thinking. Thinks beyond the obvious by exploring wide ranging possibilities even outside the given parameters.
- Participates enthusiastically and contributes significantly in brainstorming sessions to generate creativity.
- Has the facility and talent to connect the seemingly unrelated issues and information to bring out freshness in approaches and solutions. Can grasp the nuances of cross functional working.
- Does the right brain as well as left brain thinking quite actively.
- Looks at the problems and solutions from all the possible angles.
- Is highly inquisitive and questions everything by raising a question, "why"?
- May not be able to relate to the people who seem to be less creative and also may not appreciate them and their work.
- May get immersed deeply in an idea that may not be quite productive. May lose perspective with reference to business and organizational requirements.
- May shift from a to b and then to c and may get excited in working with many things at a time.
- May focus too much on right brain working and lose sight of hard core analysis and details.
- May lean more on being a loner as against being a team player.
- His idea generation and playing with them may affect a running assignment that he is handling.
