Assignment on Reflection on Learnings

Running head: REFLECTION ON LEARNINGS
REFLECTION ON LEARNINGS
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
Creativity can be defined as thinking out of the box and base upon the foundation of
learning, a certain way of perceiving and knowledge that directly contribute to the value
creation of offerings (Yashkova et al. 2016). Values can be created by the amalgamation of
innovation, empathy, creativity, and imagination (Moeran 2016). Problem-solving skills are
crucial for generating an effective response for a challenging situation (Van Aken and
Berends 2018). The combination of both skills can develop one’s personality and develop
various opportunities in the future. In the course, we have learned various conceptions and
themes, which have contributed to the development of significant skills that are required for
personal development and in enacting relevant opportunities.
Creativity
In the course, the implication of creativity learnings and theories has played a major
role in my personal development. From the course, we have learned about the meaning and
conception of creativity, which involves both cognition and personality. The learnings on
creativity constructed the understanding of the brain activities during thinking or enacting
creatively. For thinking creatively or incorporating creativity in action or practice, I have
learned that we to follow a sequential process including the steps such as the generation of
awareness and knowledge, incubation process, generation of ideas and evaluation with
execution based followed by making amendments based on the acquired feedbacks. From the
learnings about creativity, I have learned that there are three techniques of creativity such as
provocation, divergence and convergence.
These three forms of creative thinking were explained by the activity of six thinking
hats, including a white, red, black, green, yellow and red hat. We were asked to participate in
an activity by forming a group of 6 with the allotted color of the hat. Our task was to hold a
position based on the six hats, where each of us will have to depict different opinions. The

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black hat was for judgment and evaluation, yellow was for optimistic view for the theme, red
hat was for connecting emotions, the green hat was for demonstrating newer ways of thinking
and new ideas, white hat only focussed on rational ideas and facts and lastly the blue hat was
responsible for the processes control. I was the green hat that enabled my thinking to
incorporate creativity and innovation. However, in this activity, I lacked the understanding of
approaching towards a goal with a group approach, which was compensated by a class task.
The task required us to demonstrate group work in effectively generating a welfare
experience idea for the space of the empty building. I learned the way of expressing ideas in a
group by paying attention to each input and we collaboratively derived a creative idea for a
hobby center.
Creativity in business
After learning about various techniques and forms of establishing creativity in
businesses, in the next lesson and activity, I learned about the techniques of incorporating
creative thinking in business strategies. Creativity accompanies entrepreneurship in
approaching the unmet opportunities. Creativity and innovation are some of the factors that
contribute to the role of entrepreneurs. This lesson extended my understanding of learning
about the process of constructing a competitive advantage in businesses. An entrepreneur
learns the ability to be creative, which helps in identifying and/or recognizing the
opportunities in the market by the processes of invention and innovation. An effective idea
can be in synch of the strategy of new product development, diversification or business
improvement. From the course, I have learned about the processes involved in generating
business models, such as customer insights, ideation, visual thinking, prototyping,
storytelling and responding to scenarios. The exercise associated with the learnings from the
creativity course helped me to execute our understanding of the practical activity. This task
was an individual activity, which tested my skills developed until now. In this activity, I was
developing a creative idea that needs to respond to a recurring problem. The steps followed in