How do Creativity Facilitators Need to Behave? A checklist of sorts
Every so often for a break I clean out files. Here’s today’s find, a gem. Questions for people in helping roles to consider (adapted from Fundamentals of Counseling Shertzer and Stone, 1974 p.8). What if these are questions are for creativity facilitators as well. You think? Should they be? Can I behave in some way [...]
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World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-25 – what a week that was!
Greetings all, Likely you are aware of my involvement with World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21, (WCIW) as its founder in 2001 and steward. Each year around this time my attention goes 100% (and then some friends would say) to support the energy, and shake the bushes so that everyone on the planet feels [...]
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Toolkit for Collective Action by frog Take a look during #WCIW?
Simple, downloadable toolkit for community groups to make something happen. I like it for it’s simplicity. Take a look. Maybe something to use as a support for your World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 celebration? Even just a wee read through… See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning Insights Today, frog is pleased to [...]
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Advocating Pecha Kucha in Business, Education and #WCIW
Too fun. Last night’s Toronto Pecha Kucha meet up was a hoot. Speakers used slides, 20 of them, each timed to show for 20 seconds each to present on topics of their passion. The speed was quick, clipped, engaging. 20×20=400 seconds. That’s it. My table mates said they liked the PK’s because they are like [...]
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Listen to the Kids….
Thanks again to Women in Science and Engineering who invited me to present at their 2013 conference Imagine, Innovate, Inspire held at the University of Toronto this weekend. My 90-minute interactive keynote: Language to Leverage Creativity: Prepare to Nuance your Networking was fashioned so participants would: learn something new that would help them get to [...]
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Can you answer these interview questions? Can your ideas?
These interview questions were collected from 14 different employers as their favourites to ask job candidates by freelance writer Jeff Haden for Inc.com 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 [...]
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What ‘going viral’ looks like
As someone with a preference for information that is concrete, practical, tangible and real, I appreciate Microsoft Labs infographic and 3-minute video describing the power of social network viral: what it is, what it looks like and how to track it moving forward. (Source Fastco’s Infographic of the Day: Watch Microsoft Visualize Viral Content.) In [...]
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The Future by Al Gore: Paradigm Cracker. Why our creativity is important now.
If you are considering what might be next and are open to stretching your thinking a bit, this blog post is for you. I’m reading The Future by Al Gore and am wowed by the synthesis of factors he presents and how they interact in ways we never imagined, nor experienced. It provides fodder for [...]
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How to Lead an Idea Session – from Buffalo State’s International Center for Studies in Creativity
Here’s a gem of a video showing step-by-step how to lead an idea generating session using two techniques: Brainstorming and Brainwriting. Watch it to pick up pointers to improve your practice. (It would be great for all creativity professionals to competently use these and other tools, just as, say, accountants globally use a balance sheet.) [...]
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New Word: VUCA, what it is, what it does and how to handle it
So proper, isn’t it. A new word to describe what we’re all feeling, the situations we face, and what others around us are dealing with too, and on so many levels, all at once. VUCA = Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. What a whirlwind, no? (Check out VUCA’s description in Wikipedia and its platform for [...]
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