Class Notes of Creative Thinking Skills
Formulating Challenges
How to get from here to there?
A map is an obvious answer.
What if there is no map? No Google Maps? No Wifi?
What if there is no obvious answer? Ugh.
How to achieve a goal, wish or challenge is a challenge in and of itself. This is why spending time on discovering what is in-between the current state and the desired future state is important.
There is a gap between now and the future desired state. What might be all the things in the way, as obstacles or as unforeseen challenges?
What must be overcome to achieve the goal?
A strategic gap analysis identifies critical issues that must be addressed in order to achieve the goal. This is what formulating challenges is all about and the real problems start to emerge.
One way to become fluent in English is to listen to music. Seems like a great idea. It’s fun. And free. Music is readily available online. And yet, as full time students, there is not much time to listen to music, let alone study it in detail as a process for building fluency.
In fact, time is a barrier to learning English through music. Spending time on learning English through music is a roadblock to learning hospitality skills.
The creative process is fluid. Stopping, restarting and iteration is all a part of the creative process.
Back to the proverbial drawing board…
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How to get from here to there? What’s standing in the way?
What’s in the way of the vision?
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