About The Results
Understanding your Crayola Creativity Profile
Click any crayon to delve deeper into each unique creative profile type and gain valuable insights into your own creative preferences.
How Do Others Think?
This scale looks at your preferred creative-thinking style, which ranges from a Divergent orientation, a tendency to think in broad and exploratory ways, to a Convergent orientation, a tendency to think in focused and analytical ways.
To initiate your personal journey of creative discovery, read your preference summary. To facilitate insight and self-awareness, we encourage you to make note of the aspects of this description that you feel fit you.
How Do Others Perceive?
This scale on the Crayola Creativity Profile looks at your preferred way of looking at the world. This dimension ranges from an orientation referred to as Distinction, which is a creative style of perceiving distinctions and details, to Connection on the other end, which is a tendency to focus on patterns and connections.
To initiate your personal journey of creative discovery, read your preference summary. To facilitate insight and self-awareness, we encourage you to make note of the aspects of this description that you feel fit you.
How Do Others Engage?
This scale in the Crayola Creativity Profile looks at your preferred way of engaging in the creative process. The scale ranges from a more reflective style to a more transformative, hands-on style. A Reflect orientation refers to individuals who develop creative breakthroughs primarily by stepping back and reflecting, while those with a Transform orientation develop creative insight by actively working through challenges and opportunities.
To initiate your personal journey of creative discovery, read your preference summary. To facilitate insight and self-awareness, we encourage you to make note of the aspects of this description that you feel fit you.
Your personal Crayola Creativity Profile is framed around three dimensions of the creative process: Think, Perceive, and Engage, each with a scale that shows your individual preferences according to the intensity of your preferences: Strong, Moderate, Slight, or Blended. The scale identifies to what extent you tend to exercise that aspect of the dimension. Your results reveal distinct information about how you are creative. Put your creativity preferences for Think, Perceive, and Engage together and you have your Crayola Creativity Profile which tells you what form of creative thinking you most embrace within the Divergent-Convergent dimension, how your perception feeds your creative process within the Distinction-Connection dimension, and how you prefer to engage in the creative process within the Reflect-Transform dimension.
This self-reflection tool is not an assessment of how creative you are, but rather a guide to the ways you are creative—that is your natural tendencies, the aspects of the creative process that come most naturally for you. The Crayola Creativity Profile gives you insights into your own creative preferences, which should not be confused with abilities.
Results for each of the three creative processes, Think, Perceive, and Engage, range from strong to blended preferences. The stronger the preference the more clearly it will show up in your life. By contrast, individuals with a blended or slight preference are more likely to find a balance and move flexibly between both qualities on that dimension.
There are no better or worse profiles. It is important to understand yourself and the insights you can gain about your own creative style by recognizing and embracing your preferences for Think, Perceive, and Engage. Once you develop an insight about your own creative process, then it will become valuable to understand others and how your preferences influence your interactions with them and give you an appreciation for the diversity of creative styles in people around you. To begin your personal learning journey, read your profile and if you know others who have also completed the Crayola Creativity Profile, you might wish to exchange results and insight.