Personal Creativity and Development

Business
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................... 3
MAIN BODY................................................................................................................................ 3
Reflection on task.................................................................................................................... 3
Reflection on team work.......................................................................................................... 4
Personal creativity................................................................................................................... 5
CONCLUSION............................................................................................................................. 7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................ 8
Appendix...................................................................................................................................... 9
Test My Creativity test............................................................................................................. 9
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INTRODUCTION
Personal Creativity is manifested in motivation and intention to change objective world into
real interpretations along with the capability to decide when it is useful and not. Personal
creativity depicts as the potential to develop interpretive and thinking ability in a manner that
educators must encourage. This report is an individual personal creativity plan which intent to
develop abilities in research, communication, teamwork, professional approach to study and
academic analysis. During the module in the overall year, I have learnt so many things to
develop myself as an academic student, a creative, a professional as well as a potential
manager.
Throughout the module, several psychometric tests, management theories and practices,
critical approaches and creativity theories, management psychology and academic development
are studied in the overall year. The main reason behind studying all this is to link them with me
so that I am able to reflect on my personal creative abilities, and the way I can develop them in
future career as manager. Apart from this, for developing myself as an academic student,
potential, a creative, and a professional manager, I learnt about the different theories given by
Drucker, Rogers and Amabile which helped in improve my knowledge about creativity and how
to develop it in future. This report covers reflection on tasks, team work and personal creativity
which will help me in my lifelong creative professional career.
MAIN BODY
Reflection on task
Throughout the module, there are several theories I have studied in theme 3 including
theories given by Amabile, Rogers and Drucker. I have learnt so many things by studying these
theories. According to Rogers, creativity is not restricted to some specific content. According to
him, the definition of creative process is the emergence in action of new relational product or
good, growing out of uniqueness of a person on the one hand as well as the people, event,
circumstance or material of his or her life on other hand. In this, the author considers existing
creativity as crucial human attribute and elucidate what is needed for creativity to become
socially valuable instead of merely something profit driven or instrumental. He said that
“creativity is about flourishing and unfolding, not just impressing and problem solving. It is about
developing”. This statement of author influenced me in emphasizing on my own development
and it also assists in improving my creativity. During the module, while working in the team, ii I
am able to develop my creativity. Three key determinants are stated by Rogers of socially
constructive creativity. These determinants include openness to experience, internal locus of
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