I would have to say that my level of creativity would be a 9
on a scale of 1 to 10. I love writing and composing music, that’s why I have to
be creative when it comes to composing music and writing my own lyrics. I love
creating new music and sometimes I just play and create things out of just
messing around. I’m innovative when it comes to getting tasks or doing duties,
and finding new ways of doing some of my task or duties to be more time
effective and/or to have a more successful outcome. On a scale of 1 to 10 I am an
8 for innovation. Problems I face trying to be innovative or creative would be that
I criticize and judge some of my ideas right from the beginning. Another
barrier I have is by sometimes having too many ideas and not be able to funnel
them down all of the time I brainstorm. I want to break these barriers by not
criticizing all my ideas at the beginning, but just trying to run with the
first idea that comes in my head. I will also try to be more organized with my
thoughts and try to create a better web for me when I brainstorm ideas.
Innovation that is going on around me would be
that McDonald’s is trying a new management system that involves new department
heads that are in charge of a certain station at Mc Donald’s. So far it is
working out, but there are still some communication issues that need to be
addressed in this new innovation. Overall this new management style is working
and proving to be quite effective for the Mc Donald’s corporation. This class
has helped my innovation be stronger to see that two things that have no
relation could be used for new innovative ideas. This was shown to me by the
video we watched in classroom and it showed items like the GM and the health
department collaborating to have a better system to track faulty parts. I
really enjoyed being in a group and trying to define creativity, innovation,
and thinking critically. It really help me learn from other people to be able
to bounce off ideas on each other, so I could better understand what
creativity, innovation, and critically thinking are and how they work together.
