When your business needs you to be more creative or it needs you to be more strategic, then the right blend of creative thinking and critical thinking can be the fuel for strategic thinking. The right mix helps you to improve existing services, products and process.
When you use critical and creative thinking effectively, it can aid in the development of entirely new or innovative services, products and processes. The right mix reduces the stress and anxiety of running a business.
When you focus on your creative development you can:
- Muse upon, explore, experiment, test and challenge existing thought patterns and strategies.
- Develop and adopt a questioning mindset.
- Generate new ideas and responses.
- Challenge, test and re-invent your ideas.
- Self-evaluate your critical and creative thinking skills so that you develop the right mix of skills for individual business projects.
Creative development involves exploring:
- Sub-culture surfing
- Mental wandering
- Mental contrasting
- Mental association
- Thought bombing
- Mental expansion and contraction
- Hero’s Journey Profiling
- Self-authored Archetypes
- Archetypes and Archetype Personality Profiling
- Prototypes
- Stereotypes
- Personal Energy Profiling
- Chakras
- Creative Speculation
- Compare and contrast methods
- Creative weighted thinking
- Critical weighted thinking
- Creative Development Profiling
- Daydreaming techniques
- Reflection and visualisation techniques
- Identifying patterns and themes
- Mind setting and resetting
- Image mash ups
- Word mash ups
- Infographic organisation
- Mapping thoughts
- Metaphors and analogies
- Synchronistic associations
- Wishful thinking
- Wild guessing
- Intuitive linking
- Breaking rules
- Changing rules
There are tons of strategies to work with your creative power. Creativity boosts productivity. It streamlines business management. It’s an effective stress management tool. You can develop and extend your critical and creative thinking skills with creative development.

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