Soft Skill/Competency: Creativity

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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"?

Pitfalls to be Avoided

• 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.

 

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