Planning Document
Creative Leadership & Problem Solving
Key Information
• This document has two purposes: Firstly, it provides the opportunity to practice creative leadership with an emphasis on activating intrinsic motivation and excitement for the collaboration. Secondly, it is a project management document which makes action items, responsibilities, and due dates explicit. Both aspects will help ensure everyone has an enjoyable experience and high levels of professionalism.
• This document is also a template. Collaboratively complete each section. Only one person is required to submit the document on behalf of the entire team.
• Please ensure everyone has read the full instructions for the Creative Dissemination and forwarded any clarifying questions to the instructor prior to starting the Planning Document.
• The Planning Document will primarily be assessed via a Likert scale with questions that focus on degree of completion and thoroughness. This is complete/incomplete, low-stress assignment but do consider briefly reviewing the associated rubric on SLATE. To achieve a complete, the team will have to receive an ‘Agree’ or ‘Strongly Agree’ in response to each prompt.
Office Online
Please complete the Planning Document using Office Online. Doing so enables everyone to view and edit the document live via the ‘share’ feature. It is also recommended that the team have a video meeting while completing the Planning Document, please use whatever platform makes sense for the entire team. Note, that not everyone is required to turn on their video but audio will certainly help smooth out the process.
Contact Info
Team Member Pronouns Sheridan Email Address
Getting Motivated
In our unit on motivating creativity, we distinguished between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation describes completing a task simply because it is enjoyable, whereas extrinsic motivation describes completing a task to receive a reward or avoid punishment. Intrinsic motivation enhances creativity, whereas extrinsic motivation can sometimes kill creativity.
Group Motivations
What aspects of the Creative Dissemination Project might the entire team find fun, enjoyable, and intrinsically rewarding?
e.g. make new friends through a creative collaboration
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What are some extrinsic, team goals for the project? (It does help to clearly establish expectations)
e.g. Score an A or above on the Zine so that we can all earn 100% in the course
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Imagine that it is the end of the semester: the team has submitted a highly creative, engaging zine about creative leadership. What does this success feel or look like? Write a paragraph or two.
How might the team ensure they achieve the intrinsic rewards and extrinsic goals outlined above?
e.g. schedule weekly check-in meetings where we spend 15-30 minutes reviewing progress and solving problems
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Individual Motivations
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Getting Organized
Tasks
Briefly review the assignment instructions for the zine. Make a list of every task that will need to be completed while working on the project; add more tasks if necessary.
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Action List
Organize relevant tasks identified above into a project schedule that clearly outlines responsibilities and due dates and/or meeting teams. The first two items are examples; add more rows to the table as necessary.
Task Responsibility Due Date and/or Meeting Time Platform
Planning Document meeting. Entire team Meeting: October 23 MS Teams, invite sent by email
Submit the Planning Document. Brandon Due: October 24 SLATE
