Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop a questioning mindset
- Develop the habit of asking questions from different perspectives
- Take responsibility for exploring a variety of information sources to provide relevant answers to own questions
- Sort through information and ideas to identify the central questions, issues and challenges
- Challenge preconceptions and assumptions to determine actual constraints in defining a problem for resolution
- Generate ideas and responses
- Explore and use a range of creative thinking techniques to generate ideas and responses
- Muse on, play around with and have fun with ideas in relation to a perceived objective
- Identify and challenge blockers to creative thinking
- Consider and explore realities beyond the current situation
- Evaluate, and where appropriate, challenge existing boundaries to determine perceived or actual constraints
- Show willingness to take risks with ideas and thought processes
- Look around in familiar and unfamiliar places for new inspiration and habitually record observations, experiences, ideas and reflective thoughts to broaden personal knowledge base
- Acknowledge and accept the opportunity for revelation when least expected
- Identify connections and associations from things that seem unconnected
- Challenge, test and re invent ideas
- Identify, interrogate and challenge the assumptions behind ideas
- Experiment with variations, and explore and challenge a range of different solutions and ideas
- Consciously change perspectives, and evaluate ideas and situations in new ways
- Where appropriate, involve others in ideas and how they might change or be improved
- Enhance creative thinking skills
- Consciously challenge and question own thought patterns and ways of responding to work and life situations
- Identify and take opportunities to selfassess and to learn about new ideas and different ways of thinking
- Take opportunities to practise and experiment with creative thinking techniques across work and life situations
- Proactively talk to others about ways that new ideas and patterns of thinking can be encouraged and developed