Skills Builder Creativity Overview

Creativity: Using imagination and generating new ideas

Universal Framework: Creativity

Getting started

• 1 Imagining: I imagine different things
• 2 Sharing imagination: I share what I imagine with someone
• 3 Expressing imagination: I share what I imagine in different ways
• 4 Generating ideas: I create ideas to solve a problem

Intermediate

• 5 Suggesting improvements: I create ideas to make something better
• 6 Combining concepts: I can combine ideas to make new ones
• 7 Identifying opportunities: I identify opportunities for innovation
• 8 Defining success: I set out success criteria for creating new ideas

Advanced

• 9 Flexible thinking: I challenge my assumptions about ideas
• 10 Reflecting critically: I question my own ideas to improve them
• 11 Seeking perspectives: I seek different perspectives to develop my ideas
• 12 Prototyping: I create quick tests of an idea

Mastery

• 13 Incubating ideas: I give ideas time and attention to evolve
• 14 Using curiosity: I seek new concepts and ideas to innovate from
• 15 Facilitating creativity: I share creative tools for collective innovation
• 16 Championing creativity: I nurture cultures of creativity and innovation