Skill #1: Creativity and Innovation
Employs originality, inventiveness, and resourcefulness in the workplace
- Discussing the importance of creativity and innovation in the workplace
- Brainstorming and contributing ideas, strategies, and solutions
- Developing and/or improving products, services, or processes
- Identifying and allocating available resources
Featured Resource
I Am Not Creative Activity | Go Green Activity | Patent Activity | Watch Design Activity [watch template] [example]
Resources from our Partners
Creativity Tools This resource presents lateral and systematic approaches to finding creative solutions. | Creativity and Creative-Thinking Lessons This group of pages presents many lesson plans focused on encouraging creative thinking. | Mind Your Own Business This lesson plan helps students innovate and contextualize learning. | Organizational Creativity: the Top 10 Enablers
This research project/survey resulted in a top-10 list to promote organizational creativity. | P21’s Creativity and Innovation List Links to creativity and innovation resources and activities are gathered here by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. | Sparking Creativity in the Workplace This article offers tips on sparking creativity at work.
This research project/survey resulted in a top-10 list to promote organizational creativity. | P21’s Creativity and Innovation List Links to creativity and innovation resources and activities are gathered here by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. | Sparking Creativity in the Workplace This article offers tips on sparking creativity at work.
More to See, Think About, and Do
| Business Model Innovation” (video) |
| Steven Johnson, “Where Good Ideas Come From” (video) |