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.

Divergent thinking was assayed using parts of the Berlin-Intelligence-Structure (BIS) test, which requires participants to complete verbal tests, find as many uses for common objects as they can ...