VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY
MBA-500
THE EFFECTIVE MANAGER
YOGESH GARG
Yogesh Garg
Skills areas :
1. How creative are you
2. Innovative attitude style
3. Creative style assessment
HOW CREATIVE ARE YOU:
Creativity is the mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concept. In
other words creativity is the act of making something new. Creativity also determines if you
have personality traits, attitude, values, motivation and interests in creating the new ideas. It is
also associated with lateral thinking.
Score:
My score is shown in the table below:
Total questions Score
40 50
Interpretation:
My score clearly interpret that I fall under the second quartile (47-54) position with the mean
score of 55.99. So this clearly indicates me that my creativity is weak I need to develop this.
How I will develop creativity:
So in order to improve my creativity I have to take the various actions firstly I started attended
the seminar about how to be creative with expert speakers from their I learned in order to
develop creativity I need to defining the actual problem of each and every question by
considering the difference between fact and opinion and also by underlying the causes. And
afterwards generate both long term and short term alternative by considering individual
involvement in group then evaluate and specify it by considering the effects and side effects of
the alternatives. And then implement it and follow up so this helped me a lot. So now I am
becoming more creative than earlier and my creativity graph is also moving up.
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INNOVATIVE ATTITUDE STYLE:
Innovation only means to produce and invent something new that has never been done before
innovative attitude style helps you to judge how innovative attitude you possess in creating the
new ideas and new methods which will make you unique from the whole bunch of student.
Scores:
My score of innovative attitude style assessment is shown below:
Total Questions Scores
20 73
Interpretation:
My score indicates that I fall under the third quartile (73-78) with mean score of 72.41which
clearly interprets that I need to do a little work on my innovative attitude.
Areas of strength:
In innovative style attitude I have divide my areas of strength in two parts according to the
rating which are ``Almost always true and ``Often true. So let’s proceed further.
1. Almost always true:
The things which are almost always true about my innovative attitude are that I try the
new ideas and approaches to problem by brain storming and by applying new
approaches to deal with the problems. I also take the opportunities to incorporate ideas
from other fields and use it my present work. I also avoid jumping at the conclusion
without concerning other`s ideas. While working in a group I always listen to the fellow
being before arriving at final result.
2. Often true:
The things which are often true about my innovative style is that I often do the open
discussion with fellow students on how to get ahead or move forward if we obstruct by
some problem. Moreover I also demonstrate my originality in my work while working
with other I don’t change my style according to them. I also willing to work on the
problem which causes a great problem to others I often take this type of challenges and
give my best effort to solve that problem. I am good at working in team to solve
complex problem and provide input regarding the solution which I knew .
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Areas of development:
This part is further divided into two parts. Which are: “Seldom true” and “almost never true”.
1. Seldom true:
There are various things which are seldom true I am not the first on who tries the new
method among my colleagues. Moreover I seldom develop my contracts with the
experts outside my areas of interest or speciality. I don’t devote a time to peruse my
own ideas and projects. So in order to develop this I have taken the following actions. I I
am making a contact with the experts of another field my joining various business sites
and attending social and business parties .secondly I have started devoting my time to
my project by making a proper time schedule.
2. Almost never true:
There are various things which are never true about myself firstly I never use my
personal contact to expand my option for new job and assignment. Secondly I never
tolerate person who depart from organizational routine. The action taken by me in
order to develop this I is giving my business card to my friends and known ones who can
give my references to business persons and also attending the regular seminars of
business executives and try to make contacts with them by giving them my business
card.
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CREATIVE STYLE
Creativity identifies four distinct methods for achieving. This approach is based on competitive
values. The four types of creativity are: imagination, improvement, incubation and investment.
Scores:
My scores are shown in table:
types of creativity Scores
Imagination 32.86 (230/7)
Improvement 31.43 (220/7)
Incubation 19.28 (135/7)
Investment 16.43 (115/7)
Creative Style
16%
33%
Imagination
Improvement
Incubation
Investment
19%
31%
Interpretation:
My score clearly indicates that I am good in imagination and improvement as I score 32.86 in
imagination and 31.43 in improvement so these are my strength. And I have to keep this as
strength only.
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Areas of strength:
So my area of strength in creative style are imagination and improvement which means I
always use to think out of the box and tries to find out the new ideas , breakthroughs and
approaches to solve the problem. Secondly I am also good in improvement I learns from my
mistakes I try to measure my performance with the standards and see what the steps can I can
improve myself I have developed this since my school time I usually keep the track of my
performance with the actual and see if my performance is matching my actual standard or not
if not then I take the action to improve my performance and match it with my actual
performance.
Areas of development:
The areas which I need to develop are incubation (team work, coordination and involvement)
and investment (rapid goal achievement, quick response than others). I have taken various
steps to develop this I have started interaction among my team members by doing work
together and listening to their points also then arrived at final solution. The person who
influences me to improve this is Mahatma Gandhi who makes the network with lots of people
to get India free. For investment I have started working harder to explore the weakness of the
others and which results me the first to produce the productive and innovative ideas this will
help me to raise my level in future.
Reflective comment:
By doing this assessment I came to know about my areas of strength and development and
where can I use my strength to obtain the maximum productive result in creating new ideas in
the group and while working on assignments or projects. This assessment also makes me
aware of my areas of development which helped me to take earlier actions to convert my area
of development into strength.
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