How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional Role

Book Description

According to the World Economic Forum, creativity is considered to be the third-most-important skill for employees, behind complex problem-solving and critical thinking. This book will help you rethink your creativity and its value in the work life, giving you access to intellectual, emotional, and reputational benefits that were previously unattainable.

Based on a collection of interviews and research, this book translates the latest findings on the creative beliefs, confidence, and mindset into digestible thoughts for experts with an itch for improvement and innovation in domains like technology, entrepreneurship, and education. It brings a new perspective to creativity by focusing on how individuals can understand their creativity and what the implications are on what they want to achieve.

How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work is based on the most recent creativity research, which analyzes how creativity plays an important part in the individual’s sense of identity.

What You’ll Learn

• Understand how personal beliefs about the innate creativity are influenced by past experiences
• See how the creator’s personality can be shaped through new habits of curiosity, emotional risk-taking and insight
• Establish a creative communication style that enables others to navigate smoothly through the challenging moments in a feedback conversation
• Become an ambitious person with a sense of meaning in the work you do
• Identify all the familiar and less familiar in-house creative experts

Who This Book Is For

The primary reader is a knowledgeable expert, in a creative or less creative role, who is curious to bring a better fit between their inner experiences and the external environment. The secondary audience are the experts in roles like learning and development, people and culture change, and team leads who are interested in facilitating a space where employees feel safe to share their original ideas and express their curiosity.

中文：

书名：如何在工作中培养你的创造性身份：将个人创造力融入你的职业角色

根据世界经济论坛的数据，创造力被认为是员工第三重要的技能，仅次于解决复杂问题和批判性思维。这本书将帮助你重新思考你的创造力及其在工作生活中的价值，让你获得以前无法获得的智力、情感和声誉方面的好处。

基于大量采访和研究，这本书将关于创造性信念、信心和心态的最新发现转化为专家们可以理解的想法，这些专家渴望在技术、创业和教育等领域进行改进和创新。该书通过关注个人如何理解他们的创造力及其对他们想要实现的目标的影响，为创造力带来了一个新的视角。

《如何在工作中发展你的创造性认同》是基于最新的创造力研究，该研究分析了创造力如何在个人的认同感中扮演重要角色。

What You’ll Learn

• 了解个人对先天创造力的信念如何受到过去经验的影响
• 看看创造者的个性如何通过好奇心、情感冒险和洞察力的新习惯来塑造
• 建立一种创造性的沟通风格，使其他人能够顺利度过反馈对话中具有挑战性的时刻
• 成为一个有抱负的人，对你所做的工作有意义
• 找出所有熟悉和不太熟悉的内部创意专家

这本书是为谁写的

主要读者是知识渊博的专家，扮演着创造性或非创造性的角色，他们好奇地想在自己的内心体验和外部环境之间找到更好的契合点。次要受众是学习和发展、人员和文化变革等角色方面的专家，以及团队领导者，他们有兴趣创造一个让员工感到安全的空间，让他们分享自己的原创想法并表达他们的好奇心。