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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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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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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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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Collaboration Riff
Collaboration means we speak the same language. To elaborate on collaborate… Collaboration is not an aberration, it avoids misinterpretation Supports action unification and sparks good conversation Its manifestation enables creation, innovation, and desirable future cooperation. © Marci Segal, MS. All rights reserved. January 19, 2013. Marci Segal, MS. Creativity and Change Leadership; Freeing [...]
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Stanford Crash Course on Creativity – Mastering a Creative Mindset – Week 8 – and Review
This last class ended the 8-week online program with helpful creativity reminders, each a two-second soundbite. Pithy statements about innovation If anything can go wrong, fix it! Abandon paths so success can follow (leave behind what is no longer working, stick with your strengths) Every failure reveals a truth about the world Unexpected results are [...]
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Creativity as a Life Skill: Inspiring Tedx talk by Gerard Puccio, Ph.D.
A great intro to the rationale for developing creativity∞ as a life skill, delivered eloquently by Dr. Gerard M. Puccio, chair and professor of the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State. This unique academic department offers the world’s only Master of Science degree in Creativity and Change Leadership. As a seasoned alumna of [...]
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Global Innovation 1000 – Making Ideas Work – from Booz &Company’s R&D Report
Different people use different idea tools which relate to their task according to Booz & Company study of global R&D spending released in Strategy and Business 2012 Winter Issue. Successful innovators bring clarity to a process often described as fuzzy and vague they say. Full report here. On another note The experience of creating [...]
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