New problems need more innovative solutions. Leaders can inspire this type of out-of-the-box thinking by using “divergent thinking” methodologies that encourage their team to explore problems ...

In a Canadian study (Sunavsky, A. and Poppenk, J. 2022), 69 participants ages 22-35 were administered visual and verbal tests of divergent thinking, creative achievement, and behavior inventories.

Guilford is credited for introducing the terms “divergent and convergent thinking” in the 1956 theory of human intelligence called the Structure of Intellect Model (SI).