Creativity and innovation - Part II

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day.

Day 2 – 30 December 2010

Today session, I learnt about the brain function, both left and right brain. Left side of the brain handles logical thinking while the right side of the brain deals with creative thinking. People mostly use their left brain (98%) compared to the right brain. There was a balanced thinking approach so called the seven hats thinking whereby seven different color of hats with different approach. The seven hats thinking include:

·         White hat – has to do with data and information

·         Red hat – has to do with feelings, intuition, hunches and emotions

·         Black hat – caution hat, negative aspect

·         Yellow hat – positive thinking

·         Green hat – creative thinking and new ideas

·         Blue hat – control, suggest the next step in the thinking

·         Grey hat – religious hat

In group, we chose one issue and discussed it based on the seven hats thinking approach. My group issue is about the bringing back Malaysian professionals residing abroad. By using the approach, it made us to think from every aspect which later will lead to a better conclusion and decision.

For the innovation part, again in group, we discussed an idea to innovate any object that already in the market. We need to list down all the main component of the selected object and remove one of it to produce a new object. My group selected a camera and we remove the lenses to make the camera lighter, smaller and convenience. We replace the lenses with the virtual lenses.

Today session need a lot of creative thinking where I need to squeeze my head to come up with new and brilliant idea. The conclusion for today sessions:

“Man is stupider than animals”

Man may be able to go much further in his thinking than animals only because his basic thinking process is less precise

Creativity and innovation - Part I

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day.

The communication module was officially ended with the finale presentation of the business proposal by all the groups. I gained a lot of new knowledge and experiences throughout the module. The module helped me a lot in improving my confidence especially when I talked in front of people. In this post, it is no longer about communication module anymore; it is about the new module – the technical module.

Day 1 – 29 December 2010

The technical module for BeST program started today. For the first 4 days, 1 had the creativity and innovation session by Mr. Barjoyai Bin Bardai. At the beginning, I learnt more on the theory of the creativity and innovation in term of the definition, the differences between creativity, invention and innovation. I also learnt all the 5Q’s which were: IQ – intelligence, EQ – emotional, CQ – creativity, SQ – spiritual and PQ – entrepreneurship. All this Qs were explained further by Mr. Barjoyai.

Mr. Barjoyai is a very successful person, he run five different businesses in five different companies. He is so interested in all the new invention which is totally weird things. He brought his backpack which was full with all the new invention that brought from all around the world. He showed us some of his things like the spectacles with mp3 and camera, the machine washing ball, flexible screwdriver, magic soap and other things that I totally have no idea what its name and function. Some of the new and weird things were successfully penetrated the market compared to certain things that believed was not user friendly. After all, it was very interesting and exciting experience where I saw for the first time all those stuffs. It made me thought of having my own collection of all the weird things same like Mr. Barjoyai. I shared my taught with him and he said it is not too late to have that and it is very good taught.        

For the group activity, each group was assigned to discuss and list down all the new idea and invention that was not yet in the market and then presented it. From the discussion, each group came up with very super duper extravaganza ideas. There were group that shared the same idea. I would not list down all the new ideas that my group had discussed because it will make my post to become longer.

As the conclusion,

Knowledge + imagination + evaluation = creativity

Innovation ≠ creativity

“Every new idea is a wrong idea, every new idea is a good idea and therefore, every new idea is a good idea”.

It's show time

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day. 

28th December 2010 is the big day. It is my finale presentation day, the closing of the communication module. Each group presented their project proposal today. The presentation was evaluated by Mdm. Farah. Mdm. Sita, Miss Nani, Mr. Omar and the representative from Biotechcorp.

The presentation was started right after morning tea break at 11.00 AM with Futuratech group as the first group that presented their project proposal. The Futuratech was followed by Bioself and XX power. After lunch break, the presentation  continue with MCBio, Prodigy, E.Cool, Pecah Mental, Super Synergy and lastly Chimera.

My group (E.Cool) presentation was run smoothly just like we all planned. Firdaus begun our presentation followed by Zahirah, me, laila, ainun, wani, erah, ayrin and lastly yunie. My part is about our target population. For those who had read my previous blog, must know about our group project. But for those that did not, I would like to talk about it again. Well, our project proposal is about Phyto-mix yogurt. A yogurt product that is a mixture of four types of herbs and fruits. It is an anti diabetic yogurt.    

Alhamdulillah, it is all over. 

I feel Coo00oooL!!!

N.L.P..

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day. 

From the title, who can guess what is this post is all about? What is actually NLP? NLP is means NeuroLinguistic Program. I learnt about it during my last session of communication module with Mr. Faizal. 

During this session, I learnt how we can overcome our fear, phobia and problem by using our unconscious mind. Our unconscious mind is much more powerful than our conscious mind. We can do most of the thing that we think impossible in our conscious mind. All we need is close our eyes, use our imagination to think that we can do it.

All the problem are arise from our mind. Therefore, some problem can be solve by do some adjustment and changes in our mindset. There is a lot of activities that we have with Mr. Faizal that required us to use our unconscious mind. It was an amazing experience and knowledge after all.



Negotiation...

Alhamdulillah, thanks to Allah for giving me another chance to breathe for another new day. 

I have another session with Mr. Hisham which is "The Art of Negotiation Skills". The session was a two days session. At the beginning of the session, we learnt about all the theories of the negotiation. It include the BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement), ZOPA (zone of possible agreement), reservation prize and value creation.

We are divided into six new groups and I am in group 4. There are three situations of negotiation which is the first situation is the situation between employee and employer, second is about landlord and tenant and lastly between son and parents. Each situation was acted by each group, two group for one situation. My group acted as landlord paired with group 3 that acted as the tenant. This activity was meant to test the student creativity in negotiation as well as in acting. 

In negotiation session also, Zahirah and I shared our story about any situation whereby we need to negotiate with other people. My story was about buying a wristwatch. The usual price of the wristwatch is RM 180. After 20% discount, the wristwatch price is RM 140. I negotiated with the seller in order to get the wristwatch at lower price. Finally, I got the wristwatch at RM 100.

In another activity whereby Zahirah and I had to create a situation and it is again about negotiation. After create the situation, we need to choose other student to act according to the situation. We chose Aliff and Kartini to act our situation. The situation is the negotiation between husband and wife about the plan to have another child.

Through this session, we learnt how to make the deal or negotiation successful and the outcome of the negotiation is a win-win situation.