Creativity and Innovation Skills Quiz

Think Creatively

• Use a wide range of idea-creation techniques such as brainstorming to generate new ideas
• Create new and worthwhile ideas, both incremental and radical concepts
• Elaborate, refine, analyze, and evaluate own ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts

Work Creatively with Others

• Develop, implement, and communicate new ideas to others effectively
• Be open and responsive to new and diverse perspectives
• Incorporate group input and feedback into the work
• Demonstrate originality and inventiveness in work
• Understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes

Implement Innovations

• Act on creative ideas to make a tangible and useful contribution to the field
• Critical thinking and problem solving is essential for implementing innovations

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Use various types of reasoning such as inductive, deductive, etc. as appropriate to the situation
• Use systems thinking to analyze how parts of a whole interact with each other
• Make judgments and decisions based on effective analysis and evaluation of evidence, arguments, claims, and beliefs
• Analyze and evaluate major alternative points of view
• Synthesize and make connections between information and arguments
• Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
• Reflect critically on learning experiences and processes

Solve Problems

• Solve different kinds of non-familiar problems in both conventional and innovative ways
• Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions

Information Literacy

• Access information efficiently and effectively
• Evaluate information critically and competently
• Use information accurately and creatively for the issue or problem at hand
• Manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of information

Media Literacy

• Analyze media to understand how and why media messages are constructed
• Examine how individuals interpret messages differently, how values and points of view are included or excluded
• Apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and use of media
• Create media products using the most appropriate media creation tools, characteristics, and conventions
• Use diverse, multi-cultural environments to create media products

Communication and Collaboration

• Communicate clearly and effectively using oral, written, and nonverbal communication skills
• Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes, and intentions
• Use communication for a range of purposes, such as to inform, instruct, motivate, and persuade
• Utilize multiple media and technologies, and know how to judge their effectiveness
• Communicate effectively in diverse environments, including multi-lingual
• Collaborate with others by demonstrating ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
• Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal
• Assume shared responsibility for collaborative work, and value the individual contributions made by each team member