Level 5 exam — Creativity & Problem Solving

Exam — fresh questions

12 fresh questions to validate level 5: workshops, collective intelligence, culture of innovation, AI and routines.
Answer everything, then click Check: your score and explanations will appear.

5.1 · Recall

1. What is the workshop facilitator's role?

Give their own ideas to the group Make the group produce, neutral on substance Decide alone instead of the group Judge ideas during divergence

Neutral on substance, active on form: safety, rules, regulation, timing, conclusion.

5.1 · Application

2. Sara facilitates: two voices hog the floor, the quiet ones stay silent. What does she do first?

She extends the meeting without changing method She quickly imposes her own ideas to move on She switches to brainwriting: everyone writes in silence, then shares She lets the dominants talk, they carry the group

Writing restores equality regardless of oral ease; the quiet ones finally contribute.

5.1 · Application

3. Sara's workshop ends with no decision and no owner. What is the risk?

A frustrating workshop that discredits the next one Too many decisions that will have to be cancelled Too fast a conclusion that must be avoided None: the point was to discuss for a while

A workshop with no follow-up is frustrating: always conclude on decisions, actions and owners.

5.2 · Recall

4. What is the fuel of collective intelligence?

The diversity of profiles and viewpoints Uniform group profiles Consensus reached as fast as possible The boss's authority deciding everything

Varied profiles bring complementary angles; a uniform group adds no more than one person.

5.2 · Application

5. Nobody dares contradict the boss in a meeting: instant agreement on an average idea. What to do?

Validate fast: quick agreement proves quality Silence the rare objections to keep harmony Follow the boss's opinion without further discussion Written opinions first, then a designated devil's advocate

Protecting the diversity of opinions avoids the mediocre consensual decision (groupthink).

5.2 · Judgment

6. Sara must decide: a frank debate that stings a little, or a soft consensus that suits everyone?

The highest-ranked opinion: it replaces any useful debate The soft consensus: harmony beats quality The debate on ideas (not people): it reveals blind spots General silence: the less debated, the better decided

Conflict on ideas is healthy, conflict on people is toxic: debate frankly with respect.

5.3 · Recall

7. What is the foundation of a culture of innovation?

A motivating slogan posted in the offices The right to fail: learn instead of punish Systematic punishment of observed failures Secrecy kept over every new idea

With no right to fail, nobody takes risks and innovation dies, whatever the methods.

5.3 · Application

8. A prototype fails: Sara wants to keep the team's boldness. Her first sentence?

“Who is responsible for this failure?” “Let's forget it and never speak of it again” “No more attempts without my written approval” “What did we learn? Let's debrief with no culprit”

Value learning from failures (intelligent failure) rather than hunting culprits.

5.3 · Judgment

9. Management: a “let's innovate!” slogan with no means, or a weekly ritual with time, listening and example?

Neither: culture cannot be built Punish one mistake as an example, then post the slogan The slogan is enough: words create culture The concrete ritual: time, listening, demonstrated right to fail

Culture is built through practices and example, not by decree: time, means, listening, example.

5.4 · Application

10. Sara types “give me ideas” and gets banalities. What to do?

Drop AI: it is useless for creativity Also delegate sorting and the final decision to AI Push the AI (unexpected leads), then sort and verify Publish these banalities as is, unsorted

AI multiplies divergence; pushed beyond the conventional, then human discernment in convergence.

5.4 · Judgment

11. For a sensitive topic (client data), Sara hesitates to paste everything into AI. Which trade-off?

Paste everything as is: confidentiality is no topic Anonymize the topic before use, sort and verify: AI proposes, humans dispose Accept without verifying: AI is a reliable authority Never use AI, even anonymized, on principle

Enrich with AI without exposing sensitive data, then human judgment: augmented, not replaced — verified outputs.

5.5 · Application

12. Sara alternates 6-month fallow stretches with a forced session, no result. Which routine do you advise?

Daily notebook + curiosity + real breaks, a little each day Wait for inspiration without changing anything Even longer rare sessions to compensate Forget the learned methods and stop practicing

Hygiene of the mind: curiosity, notes, letting go and regular practice — consistency builds second nature.

What's next?

Score ≥ 80%: move to Level 6 “In Practice” — V3 (cross-cutting cases and hands-on situations, NO exam).
Score < 80%: re-read the explanations above — each re-explains the concept — then redo the 48h challenges of the 5 sections.