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Creativity and Innovation Quiz


This is a quick and fun quiz to help you start to identify those creative behaviours in yourself and others. It's important to note that these are behaviours, not personality types.

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You've lost your door keys! What do you do?



1) You arrive home only to find you've lost your door keys. Do you:

Assess the situation and work out any possible ways in?
Call a locksmith and use the time to catch up on some phone calls?
Start looking for useful objects to build a lock pick or ladder?
Retrace your steps and work out why this happened?
Realise you've got cash and a passport on you and go on holiday?

You're at a networking event. What do you do?



2) You're at a networking event and finding it tough to connect with a few key people. Do you:

Find out who's turned up and where they are in the room?
Talk to someone who interests you and see if they know them?
Draw something funny or intriguing on the back of your business card, slip it in their pocket and leave?
Ask yourself what you really need from this event and is there another way of achieving it?
Stand in the middle of the room and shout about how networking is a total waste of time?

You have just taken over a work project as it's suffering. What do you do?




3) A work project is suffering and you've been asked to take over. Do you:

Examine all the documents in detail and interview all the team members to find out exactly what's going on?
Shuffle your cabinet and reassign aspects of the work?
Get everyone in a room and brainstorm whole new ways of approaching the idea?
Ask yourself and your team who and what this project is for?
Tear it up and start your own project?

Your partner's birthday last year was a disaster, so what do you do this year?




4) It's your partner's birthday and you really want to do the right thing last year was a disaster. Do You:

Ask their friends and family if he/she has mentioned what they'd like to do.
Get their friends and family to organise something you've learned not to do it yourself!
Book a cottage in Cornwall for eight of you. Neither of you have ever been there before.
Ask your partner why their birthday important to them and plan an event around their answer.
Write their obituary and have it framed for them?

You completely forgot you'd invited some friends for dinner. What do you do?




5) You completely forgot you'd invited some friends for dinner. They text to say they're on their way. Do you:

Call them up to find out how long they're going to be and whether their kids are with them?
Call your local Italian and book a table?
Chuck anything you've got in a casserole dish who knows Chicken a la Strawberry Jam might just be the next big thing.
Ask yourself why you so rarely see these old friends and whats the relationship really about now?
Go to the cinema and turn your phone off.

You've become dissatisfied with your job and are wondering about changing career




6) You've become dissatisfied with your job and are wondering about changing career. Do you:

Write a list of how much you need to earn every month and how far you're prepared to travel?
List all your skills and look at what other careers they could apply to.
Apply for random jobs and go to the interviews who knows what's possible?
Work out why you're dissatisfied what is it you really want to do with your life?
Spontaneously resign with no plans and go buy yourself a bottle of champagne.

Your home could do with redecorating. What do you do?





7) Your home is looking a little shabby and could do with redecorating. Do you:

Buy a stack of DIY magazines and price up the whole task?
Rearrange furniture, pictures and old objects from the attic to create a whole new look?
Buy a selection of paints and try them out in different rooms it'll all come together in the end.
Ask yourself what impression you're trying to create and for who?
Escalate the shabby look by cancelling your cleaner?

You never much enjoy appraisals and have one coming up on Monday afternoon. Do you...




8) You never much enjoy appraisals and have got one coming up on Monday afternoon. Do you:

Find out exactly what will be discussed, then go over your last six months projects and feedback forms in order to collate a file.
Ask your boss if you can do it over coffee early on Monday morning. It'll be more relaxing and wont be hanging over you all day.
Turn up and see what happens who knows you might even ask for a pay rise.
Tell yourself appraisals are an important and necessary part of the career progression you're so passionate about.
Turn the tables and appraise your boss.

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