The purpose? To grow the confidence of group facilitators to be inspiring and engaging when sparking new thinking, new ideas and new actions in their groups. Peace of mind. In a word.
Here’s a link to the session: Know-Thyself-Creativity for Facilitators
Registration for the conference, the Creativity Expert Exchange at Buffalo State College closes soon. Take a look here to make your arrangements.
Hope to see you there…
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders thinking so they can create new futures, since forever. Founder, World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15-21.
]]>Want to assess your creative capability during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Plot yourself, and perhaps your team on the diagram to uncover areas for growth and exploration.
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‘Flitch Way Country Park’ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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 to do for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21 – this might be just the thing for you to pivot yourself and your team into a new internal relationship.
What’s the hardest part, you ask? Accepting the solutions the other department suggests as valuable.
A great tool to get access to the value of the other group’s offering is to respond to each of these question stages
(You might want to try this approach at home first, to experience how it feels. Ask the kids for a holiday suggestion, for example, and work it through. Or better, use it with your team to discuss the idea of using Flitch meetings; and with a colleague in another department…)
Let us know how it goes. Bet you’ll be delightfully surprised.
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
]]>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.
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.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government –
signs for all to see.
I can’t run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up
a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring …
You can add up the parts
but you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
That’s how the light gets in.
Danielle and I are leading a masterclass at the Association for Psychological Type international this July in Miami. She mentioned Cohen’s song in our planning conversation today. Superb, eh?
Getting Teams and Individuals Radically Unstuck: Creating a Vital and Viable Future (yes you can…:-)) is a one-day program using depth psychology, Jungian type and creativity-thinking methods and tools to support people moving beyond perceived boundaries. Magic. There’s a crack in everything. more info
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership; Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
]]>Personality style indicators help executive leadership teams innovate faster with success. The new decisions they need to make warrants them using creativity-thinking attitudes in environments that support diversity of thought, experience and perception. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator Instrument ®, Temperament, and FourSight are some we use. DISC, Herman Brain Dominance Indicator, Insights Discoveries are others. Each framework has its benefit.
Tina Seelig, Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and leader of this course says she uses Debono’s Six Thinking Hats. She shows how teams use a particular kind of ‘hat’ thinking AT THE SAME TIME, to minimize meeting derailment.
Imagine what that might feel like, to put aside your own usual hat to adopt a different kind of thinking or focus for a short period of time. What do you suppose might happen?
The selected framework must engage all the brainpower in the room – a diversity of styles instead of a one-size-fits all process. For example, the folks at Buffalo State’s International Center of Studies in Creativity articulate a number of thinking styles and affective orientations incumbent in the creative process overall. Wouldn’t it be great if all these skills were used each time a team uses a creative process. Imagine what that might do.
Tom Wujec’s fascinating Build a tower, build a team Ted Talk is a suggested resource for this week’s Crash Course on Creativity class. It shows the influence of education and approach on solving challenges. Definitely worth the 6 minutes to watch. Enjoy. You’ll be reminded of the Robert Fulghum 1988 book: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Brilliant.
Marci Segal, MS Creativity and Change Leadership – Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.