"Creativity Triggers For College Students:

A Frolicking Guide To Light Up Your Life"


by Ed Glassman, Ph.D.

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CREATIVITY TRIGGERS 
FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS:  

A Frolicking Guide To Light Up Your Life


Welcome to the fun world of creativity and an 8-step ladder to solve problems creatively in college. This book brings together the modern creativity triggers that provide the skills necessary for success.

Ranging from clarifying problems to the creation of action plans, with idea generation and idea sorting in between, this amazing book introduces students to the fun in creative effort in college. High quality solutions easily appear after enjoyable efforts to generate and select from new perspectives and ideas that create new possibilities. 

Everyone in college wants to achieve high quality solutions to problems. Your success depends on it. Yet few students have access to the new creativity triggers that lead to the highest‐level outcomes. These creativity triggers focus people on the real issues within a problem and on its quality solution.

In this book, you will find three types of creativity triggers to help solve problems creatively when working alone or in groups: 

- First, use creativity triggers to shift paradigms and produce unexpected ideas (Chapter 11).

- Second, use creativity triggers that change the creative climate so new ideas flourish (Chapter 7).

- Third, use creativity triggers that stop pigeonholing people, including yourself, so you stop stifling creative thinking (Chapter 6).

   Here's what else you will find:

- What creativity really is and the many reasons to be creative, including the fun involved (Chapters 1 & 2).

- How to unblock yourself from ‘writer’s block’ and ‘idea‐generating block’ using “automatic writing” (Chapter 4).

- Advanced creativity triggers to carry out the three key creative steps to shift paradigms and solve problems more creatively (Chapter 8). 

‐Creativity triggers for permanent creativity groups formed from students in your college (Chapter 19).

- Puzzles that illuminate your habits and traps that block you from unexpected, new ideas Chapter 6).

- How low and high conformers approach creativity differently, and how to get along with both types (Appendices IV & V).

- Habits that spoil creative thinking, and the triggers to avoid them (Chapter 6).

This book can work for you. The results ultimately depend on your commitment to alter habits and apply new creativity triggers to your problems. 

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ED GLASSMAN, Ph.D
           
Ed Glassman writes a biweekly column on "Team Effectiveness & Creativity at Work" for the Creativity Portal.com 

Former President of The Creativity College, a division of Leadership Consulting Services, Inc. 

A former Professor (1960 to 1989) at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he founded and headed the Program For Team Effectiveness And Creativity. 

Guggenheim Foundation Fellow & Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1968-1969). 

Visiting Fellow at The Center For Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina (1986).

His biography appears in "Who's Who In America" and "Who's Who in the World." 

Educational Consultant for colleges and universities in North Carolina, California, Virginia, Florida, New York, and Canada

Professor Glassman wrote many dozens of excellent newspaper columns on "Business Creativity" and "Creativity at Work," that he collected into “Team Creativity At Work II.”

He also wrote articles on creative thinking and on team excellence for Supervisory Management; R and D Management; Intrepreneurial Excellence; The Female Executive; Laboratory Management; Management Solutions; and The President. 

He authored the following books on creativity at work: 

* "For Presidents Only: Unlocking The Creative Potential Of Your Management Team." (1990) The Presidents Association of The American Management Association. 

* "The Creativity Factor: Unlocking the Potential of Your Team," (1991) Pfeiffer and Company. 

* "Creativity Handbook: A Practical Guide to Paradigm Shifts and Creative Thinking at Work," (1996), a 250 page workbook used in his workshops and creativity meetings. 

* "Team Creativity At Work-I. You Do Want To Be More Successful Than Your Creativity" (2010). 

* "Team Creativity at Work-II: Brainstorming Isn't Enough Anymore" (2010). 

* “R&D Creativity & Innovation Handbook: Creative Problem Solving At Its Best” (2011).

Professor Glassman led scores of problem-solving creative thinking meetings and workshops for large and small organizations, including DuPont; Amoco Chemical; IBM; Texaco; Ciba-Geigy; Hoechst-Celanese; Milliken; Federal-Mogul; Calreco/Carnation; A.T. and T. Bell Laboratories; Standard Products; Eastman Chemical; Thetford; Lucas Engineering (UK); and numerous others. 

These successful creative thinking events and workshops, newspaper columns, articles, and books provide the solid foundation and experience to write this fun book.