Self-assessment does not label anyone as creative or not creative. It observes practices: framing challenges, exploring alternatives, deciding, testing, and learning.

Score from 1 to 5 whether you distinguish facts, hypotheses, and questions; generate diverse alternatives; ask for different perspectives; use criteria; run proportionate tests; and record learning. Do not add scores to create a label: look for patterns and conditions behind low scores.

“Be more creative” is vague. “At the next improvement meeting, I will write three alternatives before choosing one” can be reviewed. Lumen could record unanswered setup questions for two weeks and review them in twenty minutes.

Choose one practice, define a fourteen-day action, evidence, and a likely barrier with a response.

Before prioritising, speak with the person doing the task and the person maintaining it; record one observation from each; prepare three questions to reduce time pressure.

• Comparing yourself with others.
• Choosing too many goals.
• Mistaking activity for progress.

Self-assessment observes trainable behaviour and selects a small improvement with evidence. Feedback from others completes this perspective.