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DVD

24 Lectures / 30 minutes per lecture

Course number 5955

Professor Gerard Puccio, Buffalo State, State University of New York

Disc 1: Creative person: practice and passion -- Lateral thinking is a survival skill -- Creative styles: adaptors and innovators -- Combining opposites: diverge, then converge -- Principles for unleashing your imagination -- Principles for converging on the best ideas -- disc 2: Stages of the creative process, and you -- Clarifying the challenge -- Clarify even more: webbing and storyboarding -- Classic brainstorming and brainwriting -- Tools for enhanced brainstorming -- Borrowing and modifying ideas --

disc 3.

Systematic tools to generate new ideas -- Developing ideas: toward great solutions -- Prototypes: how designers test ideas -- Evaluating creative solutions and making decisions -- Giving ideas legs: implementation planning -- Persuasion and the selling of new ideas -- disc 4: Tools for bringing it all together -- Lifting the emotional lid on creativity -- Environment: physical and psychological -- Creative leadership: regardless of title -- Overcoming blocks and barriers -- Living a creative life