Directed by The Great Courses

Gerard Puccio

Anyone can be creative. You just have to know how to think creatively, which involves taking a more imaginative approach to the challenges we all face, whether at work or at home. And you can learn how to wield the same research-based tools that today's creative people use. All you need is an open mind, a determination to succeed, and The Creative Thinker's Toolkit

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Creative Person - Practice and Passion

Episode 2

Lateral Thinking Is a Survival Skill

Episode 3

Creative Styles - Adaptors and Innovators

Episode 4

Combining Opposites - Diverge, Then Converge

Episode 5

Principles for Unleashing Your Imagination

Episode 6

Principles for Converging on the Best Ideas

Episode 7

Stages of the Creative Process - and You

Episode 8

Clarifying the Challenge

Episode 9

Clarify Even More - Webbing and Storyboarding

Episode 10

Classic Brainstorming and Brainwriting

Episode 11

Tools for Enhanced Brainstorming

Episode 12

Borrowing and Modifying Ideas

Episode 13

Systemic Tools to Generate New Ideas

Episode 14

Developing Ideas - Toward Great Solutions

Episode 15

Prototypes - How Designers Test Ideas

Episode 16

Evaluating Creative Solutions and Making Decisions

Episode 17

Giving Ideas Legs - Implementation Planning

Episode 18

Persuasion and the Selling of New Ideas

Episode 19

Tools for Bringing It All Together

Episode 20

Lifting the Emotional Lid on Creativity

Episode 21

The Environment - Physical and Psychological

Episode 22

Creative Leadership - Regardless of Title

Episode 23

Overcoming Blocks and Barriers

Episode 24

Living a Creative Life