Creative Thinking Certification

The Trusted Skills certification in Creative Thinking certification verifies evidence that a candidate possesses skills to understand complex problems, gather inspiration for potential solutions, generate ideas, make those innovative ideas tangible, test those ideas to learn more, and tell the story of an insightful change that they have developed. To be certified, a candidate must demonstrate skill in the following areas:

  1. Show curiosity

  2. Gather and assess relevant information

  3. Manage ambiguity

  4. Developing and testing creative ideas

  5. Storytelling

Show Curiosity

  1. Evidence of ability to demonstrate openness to and interest in change and difference. 

  2. Evidence of ability to demonstrate a desire to learn more about a problem before seeking a solution

  3. Evidence of ability to generate ideas that represent unconventional ways of thinking about a problem

  4. Evidence of ability to demonstrate openness to new experiences, approaches and/or relationships

Gather and Assess Relevant Information

  1. Evidence of ability to ground creative problem-solving practices in facts and analysis rather than opinions and assertions.

  2. Evidence of ability to integrate community members into the solution development process

  3. Evidence of ability to use analogous points of inspiration to explore a problem

  4. Evidence of ability to integrate a system thinking approach to define a creative problem

  5. Evidence of ability to recognize the role of position, privilege and bias when presenting a creative solution to a specific challenge.

  6. Evidence of ability to make recommendations that are supported by the analysis of evidence.

Manage Ambiguity

  1. Evidence of ability to integrate diverse perspectives when solving a creative problem

  2. Evidence of ability to generate multiple alternative solutions and evaluate ideas effectively

  3. Evidence of ability to manage ambiguity when presented with challenges.

  4. Evidence of ability to assess the first and second order consequences of creative solutions to problems.

Develop and Test Creative Ideas

  1. Evidence of ability to consider alternative possibilities as solutions for a creative challenge.

  2. Evidence of ability to explore possible solutions using rapid prototyping approaches or tools.

  3. Evidence of ability to explore possible solutions using experiential or live prototyping approaches and tools.

  4. Evidence of ability to test possible solutions with impacted community members to learn more about the solution’s viability or useability.

  5. Evidence of ability to test possible solutions against established success metrics to learn more about the solution’s viability or useability.

Storytelling

  1. Evidence of ability to share the story of a creative idea in an insightful manner.

  2. Evidence of ability to make the future tangible through storytelling.

  3. Evidence of ability to articulate the need for change and aligns the creative solution to the original challenge.

  4. Evidence of ability to reflect on feedback and criticism, and to integrate that reflection into the story of the creative idea.

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