1. MGMT 302-VL2

2. Creativity

3. Individual Creativity
 Domain-relevant skills
 Creativity-relevant skills
 Task Motivation

4. Domain-relevant
 Skills, knowledge, and talent people
have in a particular area (artists,
architects, engineers, surgeons, etc)

5. Creativity-relevant
 Cognitive styles that encourage
creativity and knowledge about creativity
techniques
 Cognitive styles

6. Task Motivation
 Intrinsic Motivation

7. Group Creativity
 Strengths
 Problems

8. Techniques
 Brainstorming
 Brainwriting
 Nominal group technique

9. Brainstorming
 Four Basic Rules
 Criticisms are strictly forbidden
 Free thinking and wild notions are
encouraged
 Numerous ideas are sought
 Combining & building on the ideas of others
is good
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tS9aZhB9c
s

10. Multiple-Stage Creativity
Approaches
 Uses a time buffer
 Eliminates the “on
the spot” expectation
of creativity in groups

11. Team Building and Team
Training
 Organizational Development
Intervention
 Ongoing activity

12. When to do Team Building
 Criteria for an effective team
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8E
m5vU0FU&feature=related
 Criteria for ineffective teams

13. Team Building Programs
 Goal Setting
 Role Definition
 Interpersonal Process
Skills
 Cohesion Building
 Problem Solving

14. Team Training
 Focuses on:
 Task-related skills & knowledge
 Teamwork skills
 Knowledge of the skills and roles of other
team members
 Process improvement sills

15. Types of Team Training
 Team Resource Management (TRM)
 Cross-Training & Interpositional
 Action Learning

16. TRM
 Used to develop a defined set of
teamwork competencies for teams
operating under stressful situations
 Combines classroom training with
simulator practice with feedback
 http://www.metacafe.com/watch/an-
bscBuu4m2hbmbm/apollo_13_1995_ke
n_in_the_simulator/

17. Cross-
Training/Interpositional
 Cross-training
 Team members are trained in technical skills
of two or more jobs
○ Allows teams flexibility to respond to the
changing work environment (job
promotions/vacancies)

18. Interpositional
 Positional Clarification
 Positional Modeling
 Positional Rotation
 Creates
awareness of
team members’
roles

19. Action Learning
 Focuses to develop teams that can
analyze and solve real-life problems
 Combines training with innovative
solution development to existing
organizational problems

20. Summary
 Creativity
 Team Building/Team Training