Today more than ever before all organizations, businesses and schools need to Support, Promote, Recognize, Encourage, Apply and Develop the C.r.e.8.n.g. abilities and creative thinking skills of every member, employee, student and teacher. When leaders choose to truly S.P.R.E.A.D. C.r.e.8.n.g. and Creative Thinking they will grow in dimensions never seen before.

Each week thinking of all types can be expanded and enriched if that is the chosen purpose of an organization, business or school. Peter Senge in the Fifth Dimension talked about each organization becoming "Learning Organizations". I am talking about every organization becoming "Teaching and Training
Organizations" in which every employee's thinking abilities, specifically creative thinking abilities are expanded and enriched deliberately. Every member, employee, student and teacher can learn to further develop their creative thinking skills through practicing with Creativity Challenges and Creative Thinking Tools and Techniques.

Robert Crawford from the University of Nebraska, Alex Osborn, partner of BBDO and creator of Brainstorming and co-creator of the Osborn-Parnes Creative Problem Solving Process and both the Creative Education Foundation and its annual Creative Problem Solving Institute, E. Paul Torrance, Ph.D., researcher, author and creator of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking have written about the teaching of creative thinking since the 1930s in the United States with their books published in many languages around the world.

In more recent times authors have included: Arthur VanGundy, Michael Michalko, Roger von Oech, James Adams, Doug Hall to name only a few. Each in their books and through their work have demonstrated repeatedly that creative thinking skills can be expanded and enriched through learning and practicing creative thinking tools and traits.

My work focus since the mid-1970's has been to develop methods for helping people to expand and enrich their creative thinking and creative traits in their workplaces from factories to corporations. As a speaker, workshop leader and consultant I have worked with hundreds of companies and organizations. The following paper and presentation made at the conference is based on my observations and analysis of my experiences since 1976.

One teaching tool I have learned to use is to create acronyms that in themselves explain the goal while each letter of the acronym represents and reinforces key points. The challenge of using