Creativity training needs assessment for homeland security enterprise: a case for creative thinking
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Creativity training is needed in the Homeland Security Enterprise to enhance problem-solving and innovation. Addressing this gap can improve threat detection and intelligence capabilities.
Area Of Science
- Homeland Security
- Organizational Psychology
- Intelligence Studies
Background
- Creative problem-solving is often overlooked in Homeland Security Enterprise workforce development.
- A knowledge gap may exist regarding the integration of creativity into security and intelligence training programs.
Purpose Of The Study
- To assess the need for creative problem-solving training within the Homeland Security Enterprise.
- To identify how creativity training can enhance innovative intelligence capabilities and support the overall mission.
Main Methods
- Utilized organizational creativity literature.
- Conducted a training needs assessment using O*NET and Careers in the Military Database.
- Identified job tasks, knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) aligned with the creative process.
Main Results
- Confirmed a need for creative problem-solving training and dedicated creative thinking time (e.g., red teaming).
- Highlighted the importance of fostering creative thinking and action for innovation.
- Identified situational and individual factors influencing training transfer, including organizational environment, leadership, and creative self-efficacy.
Conclusions
- Recommends implementing creativity training to boost creative thinking and action.
- Emphasizes the role of organizational and individual factors in successful training transfer.
- Suggests that enhanced creativity will aid security, counterterrorism, and intelligence communities in threat detection and intelligence product development.
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