The Creative Competencies

Robert Rasmussen

The Creative Competencies
 
 Traditional models of leadership put a single all-powerful individual in the driver's seat and leave little room for others to access their creativity.
 
 Over eight years, Charles Palus and David Horth, researchers at the Center for Creative Leadership and co-authors of "The Leader's Edge, Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges", observed several hundred individual leaders. The authors found six interrelated creative competencies that helped these leaders to make good decisions in turbulent times:

1. Paying Attention; using multiple modes of perception.
2. Personalizing; tapping into others unique life experiences.
3. Imaging; using all kind of images, such as pictures, stories and metaphors.
4. Serious Play; generating knowledge through exploration, improvisation, experimentation.
5. Co-inquiry; dialoguing within and across community boundaries.
6. Crafting; synthesizing issues, objects, events into meaningful wholes.
The challenge is how can each member in an organization access these elusive creative competencies in "real time", quickly and efficiently, and have their entire work group share in both the joy of creative problem-solving and the responsibility of implementing collective goals.
 Shared Leadership
 
 It takes leadership on all levels to thrive in turbulent times.
 The LEGO SERIOUS PLAY process is a transparent, social process so both insights (those exciting "aha" moments) and ownership of action steps required to reach your aspirations - are shared. The process evokes and integrates all six creative competencies identified by Palus and Horth instantaneously, in "real time". Because the process involves you and your entire work group, the insights, actions and commitment are owned jointly, by all of you, not just an individual "leader". Let LEGO SERIOUS Play ignite your organization's fire of creative competence, allowing you and your colleagues to bond insights together with actionable steps that will propel you to a new and exciting future.

What do our clients say about Lego serious play?
“We want to start a LEGOLUTION’ in this business!  Everyone should be attending,” delegate from a well-known publishing organisation.
“Wow, can you imagine the implications this would have for ensuring that everyone has buy-in to our vision,” manager of a call centre.
“I came into this session not knowing what to expect and have left feeling inspired.  I am no longer in the doldrums and want to share all of this excitement with my team,” learning and development manager.