You can use this as a tool for generating new thinking on any topic – the squid skin (at about minute 2) has great qualities you can leverage.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html
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Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures, founder and steward of World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21.
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Nice thought piece for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21. Maybe by the end of the week, you’ll have a plan of which priorities to choose from for some juicy new ideas, new decisions and new actions. Wouldn’t that be a great outcome for this week! http://wp.me/p1XI3D-1TM
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures, founder, World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21.
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Source: mgleeson.edublogs.org via Ariana on Pinterest
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights
Today, frog is pleased to release the Collective Action Toolkit (CAT).
Simple reminders for people who already know how to work with groups.
See on designmind.frogdesign.com
Marci Segal, MS. Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if all presentations were made that way? Boiled down to the essence, entertaining, engaging. Conversation follows. Simple. Human. Even in schools, what if students had to do their reports using PK’s?
Are you having a face to face meeting during World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21? Do you want to spark your creativity? Use a Pecha Kucha format for your presentation. Challenge others too. You’ll be amazed at the energy and inspiration you’ll unleash.
More info pechakucha.org
FYI I designed a leadership conference that had the CEO and VP’s use PK’s to present their subjects, then coached them to lead a variety of interactive exercises to invite and engage the delegates who flew in from all over the country. Huge success. People are still talking about it. Totally believe in this stuff for meetings- interaction, concise and entertaining information sharing and laughter. Yup. Laughter is good, for a lot of reasons. Want references? Let me know.
Tchau
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
There’s a good chance I’ll be presenting a PK at the Gladstone Hotel for World Creativity and Innovation Week on April 16. Please join me! http://www.pechakucha.org/cities/toronto
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What if….
You used these questions, modified as needed, to interview idea candidates for your next great idea. That’s right, pretend your short list of ideas are people.
What do you suppose would happen if you asked each idea the questions that follow?
What kind of responses might you get?
What might you learn to help you decide on the best option for now?
What new thinking might emerge, what new perspectives?
Wondering…Do you think doing this exercise of interviewing your ideas is a waste of time?
The Questions
If we’re sitting here a year from now celebrating what a great year it’s been for you in this role, what did we achieve together?
When have you been most satisfied in your life?
If you got hired, loved everything about this job, and are paid the salary you asked for, what kind of offer from another company would you consider?
Who is your role model, and why?
What things do you not like to do?
Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career.
Tell me how…
What’s your superpower, or what’s your spirit animal?
Why have you had x amount of jobs in y years?
We’re constantly making things better, faster, smarter or less expensive. We leverage technology or improve processes. In other words, we strive to do more–with less. Tell me about a recent project or problem that you made better, faster, smarter, more efficient, or less expensive.
Discuss a specific accomplishment you’ve achieved in a previous position that indicates you will thrive in this position.
So, (insert name), what’s your story?
What questions do you have for me?
Tell us about a time when things didn’t go the way you wanted– like a promotion you wanted and didn’t get, or a project that didn’t turn out how you had hoped.
For full text see 14 Revealing Interview Questions by Jeff Haden in Inc.com in their Managing Process Innovation Tab.
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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(It would be great for all creativity professionals to competently use these and other tools, just as, say, accountants globally use a balance sheet.)
You all know that I’m a graduate of that program at Buff State, right? So proud of my alma mater. Particularly enjoy the colour commentary explaining the stages and key pointers as the session continues. Very well done. Definitely worth the 15 minutes.
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership, Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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“Fresh ideas come when your brain is relaxed and engaged in something other than the particular problem you’re embroiled in… This is the polar opposite of what happens in brainstorming sessions. Long showers, soaks in a tub, long walks, or doing chores are frequently when those “synapses” that find alternative solutions to a problem in new ways all hit together so that the big idea can spring.” This from an article in Fastcompany called Why Innovation By Brainstorming Doesn’t Work by Debra Kay.
I wonder about the situations Kay sites with regard to introversion and extraversion. Introversion describes being inside our minds, when are quiet or reflecting or inwardly wondering; extraversion describes interacting with others and/or the world outside, possibly through talking or engaging with others. From a Myers Briggs Type Indicator® perspective, we all access these attitudes, inner and outer. We feel more energized using one more so than the other: the one that energizes is referred to as our preference.
I wonder if the quality of insight that comes from introverting varies much from those that arrive from the extraverting for people with preferences for extraversion than for people with preferences for introversion. Do people make meaningful and different kinds of connections in the inner world than they do in the outer one? Is it possible that the creation of new ideas is influenced by personality style preferences?
Is it possible that the one-size fits all approach to generating new ideas is archaic? Is it possible that people of the different personality preferences need distinct rules of behaviour be a their best to generate new ideas and make new decisions? I think so, and will be writing more about this as I review the Creativity and Personality Type: Tools for Understanding and Appreciating the Many Voices of Creativity, and converge on new thinking since writing it in 2001 in preparation for the pre-conference session with Danielle Poirier Getting Unstuck at the Association for Psychological Type International conference this July in Miami.
Ask: I could use your help. Please let me know your thoughts, feelings, inklings and experiences of personality style differences in generating new ideas and making new decisions; together we can create something wonderfully beneficial and useful. Even though I’ve led innovation training, creativity thinking and team building sessions for years, including designing corporate meetings that take into account the personality style differences I am still curious to know what doesn’t work for you when it comes to working with creating new ideas for innovation?
Marci Segal, MS, Creativity and Change Leadership; Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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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.
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.
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