Know Thyself Creativity

I’m getting ready to present a master class at a great conference next week  – fresh materials for facilitators so they can know their own style and expect the style needs of others to inform their session design and delivery. The purpose?  To grow the confidence of group facilitators to be inspiring and engaging when […]

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Creativity Wheel – Assess your creativity capacities for #WCIW

I like this graphic because it highlights the ‘people’ side of creativity – feelings, actions, and behaviours. When coupled with different tools and techniques, new ideas, new decisions and new actions are very close indeed. Want to assess your creative capability during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Plot yourself, and perhaps […]

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Use Flitch Meetings to Bring your Organization’s Silos Together

Flitch meetings blur boundaries between organization silos.  Strategic and brave leaders, those with an open mind to innovation and sustaining a culture that supports gaining insights and cooperation through collaboration, use them. What’s a flitch meeting?  A meeting where a problem in one area is solved by another department.  If you are looking for something […]

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Where to look for new ideas – insight from Leonard Cohen

The Future is an album by Canadian musician Leonard Cohen. His song, Anthem, provides a strong metaphor for insights into where to look for new ideas. Anthem The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. […]

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Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Creative Teams – Week 6

Working on teams is hard and worth it.  Each person brings his/her own skills, experience, hopes and inspiration for a collective desired outcome. Finding out how each team member thinks, his or her style, is important and can help teams over hurdles to using creative thinking. Personality style indicators help executive leadership teams innovate faster […]

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