Creative Climates: Soil, Sun, Storm, and Space Climates

Synonyms

Creative culture; Creative environment

Creative Climates, Attitudes, and Thinking Skills: CATs

Creativity is the process of making something unique and useful, and this process can lead to innovation. Today’s rapidly changing world, individuals and a place encounter new circumstances, problems, and opportunities every day, and individual and organizational successes depend on innovation. CATs is a research-based, comprehensive framework of creativity and how it develops into innovation (Kim 2016). It includes the three steps that lead to innovation: first, cultivate the 4S (soil, sun, storm, and space climates) Climates; second, nurture the 4S (soil, sun, storm, and space) Attitudes; and third, apply ION (inbox, outbox, and newbox) Thinking skills.

Both creative underachievers and successful creators are shaped by their climates. The 4S climates include interpersonal relationships, developmental environments and processes, and atmospheres and practices, which provide creators...