27 creativity and innovation tools, from ideaDJ to enhance your #WCIW (and then some)
Marc Heleven & Ramon Vullings help people ‘sell ideas visually’. They have a for free download for you: 27 creativity & innovation techniques well worth your taking a look when in need of some new ways to help people generate new ideas, make new decisions and take new actions. 27 creativity and innovation tools – [...]
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The influence of time on creativity – great short video – shows time is a creativity tool
It’s worth the two minutes to see the effect of time on creativity. If you let it, this video can spark new thinking about why you might want to encourage, support, and welcome creativity and creativity thinking day-to-day wherever you are. Nice thought piece for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 -21. Maybe by [...]
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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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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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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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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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Does Brainstorming for Innovation Work? Maybe not… when you consider personality style
“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 [...]
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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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Brainstorming – work or no? What’s it really all about?
Conversations about the efficacy of brainstorming can be tiresome when its meaning is understood, assumed and experienced uniquely from person to person; that is, when it’s definition is muddy the arguments keep the water murky.
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