Dr. John Eggers, CEO and President of Proclivity LLC, has created the Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory (CPS) as a method to measure a person’s innovative or adaptive characteristics. Dr. Eggers defines Innovative types and Adaptive types of people as follows:
Innovative Types: Focus on doing things differently, prefer little structure, and are highly creative thinkers. These types are CEO’s, entrepreneurs, and trend setters. They are positive thinkers, flexible, driven, intuitive, fast trackers, with the ability to get noticed.
Innovative Disadvantages: This type is considered impatient, difficult to get along with, messy in their work, hate details, and often feel constricted by rules
Adaptive Types: Work well with a set of rules or definitions, highly focused on tasks, methodical, concrete, practical, analytical, efficient, stable, and task oriented
Adaptive Disadvantages: Narrow minded, rigid, unimaginative, resist change, needs all the facts, and wants things done his/her way
The advantages of understanding how a person ranks in the CPS survey, whether innovative or adaptive, in the hiring process is invaluable. The CPS survey allows organizations to hire the right blend of innovative people and adaptive people to keep a company progressive, on target, growing, while staying focused on their task.
But what of the individual who is interested in self evaluation, understanding their own characteristics, and how these characteristics play a big role in their life?
Our next article will focus on how the Creativity & Problem-Solving Style Inventory survey can help individuals gauge their characteristics, identify characteristics that are negatively effecting their behavior, and create a plan to address these problems as they surface.
