From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
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Play with time
From the course: Optimizing Human Performance on Your Team as a Manager
Play with time
- Would you rather $5 today or $10 tomorrow? Most people opt for the $5 today, such is the power of temporal frames. Temporal frames are a way of thinking about time that can influence our cognitive processes, including creativity. Adjusting these frames can facilitate creative thinking by altering how individuals perceive and then interact with time. We are going to look at three temporal frames that can improve the diversity of your colleagues' ideas. The first frame to experiment with is the extended timeframe. This is where you encourage your colleagues to imagine something far off into the future. There are several ways that you can use this frame. One way is to step out 100 years into the future and look back at the problem you have now. What ideas come to you? Another is to look out 50 years into the future. What solutions could you create now that would still be impactful in the future? The differences between these two frames may seem subtle, but they can have profound…
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