Creativity Games for Trainers: A Handbook of Group Activities for Jumpstarting Workplace Creativity (McGraw-Hill Training Series)
Author: Robert Epstein
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ISBN: 0070213631
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade (01 December, 1995)
Sales Rank: 32,680
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Excellent
I've used Epstein's book together with Michalko's "Thinkertoys," in my creative thinking seminars with great success. You can't fail with these two books.
Rating: 5 out of 5
A different approach
This book focuses on the stimuli (inputs/old ideas) and effective capaturing of responses (outputs/creative ideas) vs most other books about creativity focus on the thinking process, like mindmapping, six hats, thinking toys, etc. Thus, it directs to a total different path of how we build an environment to boost creativity. My analogy is no matter what thinking process you introduce, a group of housewives cannot invent a racket to reach the moon (don't get me wrong, I highly respect housewives for their contribution to families). It's the relevancy and variety of the inputs that matters.I guess the author is a behaviourist who see thinking process as black box, i.e. non-observable and non-measurable. Thus, he only concentrates on the observable and measurable stimuli and responses.
I am a trainer for creativity for my company. I find this book very useful. The only complaint is that not all the games are up to my personal standard: able to demonstrate the theory AND able to energize the participants.
All in all, I highly recommand this book. You will see creativity in a different angle.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Realy Improving
Creativity Games for Trainers was realy useful for me because it its change my life and i realy feel of the creativity on me. I approached my job with new inspiration after I started taking time-outs with myself. I highly recommend this book. Similar Products
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