Those of you who have followed my blog know that I usually discuss leadership and how to develop yourself and become a better guide. Today I thought I would look at two different qualities that you as a guide need to develop. This time I thought I would do it from a scientific perspective, it is always interesting to see things from several angles…

First of all, I thought I would start with the characteristic of creativity. This is a central ability, the ability to adapt to prevailing conditions. I will do this from a scientific perspective. So the first question is: Is and can everyone be creative? This is interesting because it is a buzzword that is used a lot today both in business and in other areas. The creative sorts under the openness. This is a skill we all got- and need for survival.  So the answer is yes we all really can be creative, isn’t that nice and confidence-inspiring. Leif Denti Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and Innovation Psychology means that innovation psychology is about how good a organization can handle and adapt to innovation and culture and leadership related to the area.  He means that everyone can be and also develop his ability of creativities. But what we can learn is also that in a organization where the creativity stops for example: No you can not go to that seminaries, or we don’t have time for that now. This will stop and restrict the ability of creativity. But for a good environment for creativity it requires some frames. What cant or shall we not do, that is example where you scope. This so we don’t have too much freedom in creative thinking, because that will inhibit the whole thing. 

The other thing I will look into is how we select people for specific assignment and employment or different roles for example. There has been different types of model for this, and the armed forces has been doing this for a long time. One important ability is how to handle press and stressed situation. So in the U.S Marine the selection of candidates for the Navy Seals they have tested different types of models. David Bergman describe all of this in his book The psychology of combat. It is quite interesting a lot of things in this book, and one common thing in the recruitment is that the soldier’s with a  normal or higher giftedness, copes better with trauma and crisis situations. They got less of Post Traumatic Distress Syndrome (PTDS). But with knowledge about how PTDS and stress  arises/occurs can of course help us all to be prepared…

IT’S A WILLIE NELSON CHRISTMAS Written By JOSEPH HOPKINS

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