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KAREN
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How can one develop their innovative minds?
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Dexter Arver
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Hello,
I think to be more innovative, everyone needs to better understand the people we are trying to help. One of the best way to do this is to volunteer for a nonprofit.
I would recommend reaching out to nonprofits (or finding one on a website like globalgiving.org) and seeing how you can help. Once you start working, you’ll realize that you have preconceived assumptions and you’ll challenge your mind. You’ll also work to help those in need, which can help you get a job in the future. Working with a nonprofit will also help you build your resume/portfolio, and will show your future hiring manager, what type of values you have as a person.
What field are you in or looking to get into? Perhaps the community here can suggest some nonprofits you can work with. :)
Wishing you the best of luck in 2020 and beyond!
I think to be more innovative, everyone needs to better understand the people we are trying to help. One of the best way to do this is to volunteer for a nonprofit.
I would recommend reaching out to nonprofits (or finding one on a website like globalgiving.org) and seeing how you can help. Once you start working, you’ll realize that you have preconceived assumptions and you’ll challenge your mind. You’ll also work to help those in need, which can help you get a job in the future. Working with a nonprofit will also help you build your resume/portfolio, and will show your future hiring manager, what type of values you have as a person.
What field are you in or looking to get into? Perhaps the community here can suggest some nonprofits you can work with. :)
Wishing you the best of luck in 2020 and beyond!
Denise Scarff
Human Resources
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You should reach the companies you would like to work for and write a letter highlighting your strengths. Cover letters are key, ensure you refer to what you like about the organization and why you would be a great addition to their team.
Sheila Kritsch
Retail Operations
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Hello Karen,
I think an innovative mind is simply looking at the challenge, task or problem from different points of view. If you are solving a problem for a customer, see it from their perspective. How can you make things simple and easy? How does this impact you or the company that you are working for? Can we find solutions that have some benefit to all of those involved?
When my daughter was 5, I was taking her to school and she said "mom, if you don't think outside the box, you will get stuck inside the box". Very insightful for such a young girl. But also, very simple too. If we, consider more than one solution to anything, we can find the right solution to most things.
What career path are you seeking Karen?
I think an innovative mind is simply looking at the challenge, task or problem from different points of view. If you are solving a problem for a customer, see it from their perspective. How can you make things simple and easy? How does this impact you or the company that you are working for? Can we find solutions that have some benefit to all of those involved?
When my daughter was 5, I was taking her to school and she said "mom, if you don't think outside the box, you will get stuck inside the box". Very insightful for such a young girl. But also, very simple too. If we, consider more than one solution to anything, we can find the right solution to most things.
What career path are you seeking Karen?
Rebecca Tang
Banking
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Having an innovative mind, it is a more the mentality rather than development. I believe everyone has an innovative mind. It really subject to how we open up our mind and make good utilization.
When we are young especially young children, they have less consideration and concern. You can find that the children have very good imagination usually. When people grow older, they know the world better and understand the limitation of reality. Gradually, they may lose the motivation to image and be creative.
Sometimes, we would need to put down the constraints in real time and think out of the box. This is the most important to keep ourselves be open minded and be creative.
Hope this answer your question! Good Luck!
When we are young especially young children, they have less consideration and concern. You can find that the children have very good imagination usually. When people grow older, they know the world better and understand the limitation of reality. Gradually, they may lose the motivation to image and be creative.
Sometimes, we would need to put down the constraints in real time and think out of the box. This is the most important to keep ourselves be open minded and be creative.
Hope this answer your question! Good Luck!
Elizabeth Sinclair-Colando
University Administrator and Instructor
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Elizabeth’s Answer
Merriam-Webster's dictionary definition of innovation is 1) a new idea, method or device 2) the introduction of something new. Having an innovative mind can take hold in many different types of environments. Let's say you see a family member performing a task. An innovative mind may think - there may be a more efficient way to accomplish that task - and then devises a process. Innovativeness can be developed through exercising one's brain with puzzles, mathematics, or science. Using one's hands with one's mind tends to have more lasting effect than constantly working with a computer. So I would suggest getting difficult puzzles or word games and working through them not on a computer but from a book or physical puzzle. Study mathematics and science because they exercise the left side of the brain. And look for ways you can solve problems starting at home or with your friends. Think through the process being used and decide if it looks clunky. If it does, then think through how it might become more efficient. Notice I did not suggest faster - but efficient. Fast doesn't always mean better. Efficiency implies a better way of doing something without sacrificing quality.
As you begin to develop an innovative mind as a young person, this can carry over into your advanced education and then into the workplace. Problem solving is a sought after skill by all employers. They want individuals who can bring them solutions to problems, not just bring them problems.
As you begin to develop an innovative mind as a young person, this can carry over into your advanced education and then into the workplace. Problem solving is a sought after skill by all employers. They want individuals who can bring them solutions to problems, not just bring them problems.