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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Fun Failure: How to Make Learning Irresistible | MindShift
See on Scoop.it – Creativity and Learning InsightsFailure is a positive act of creativity,” Katie Salen said. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs can advance their learning through having fun.See on blogs.kqed.org Marci Segal, MS. Creativity and Change Leadership. Freeing leaders’ thinking so they can create new futures.
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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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Confused? The rules changed while you slept. No wonder.
Eddie Obeng produced the World After MIdnight video about why the world is the way it is. Even though it’s stacked with truisms, its eight minutes give pause for reflecting about the confusion of our times. Watching it enables you to forgive everyone else (what are also experiencing this confusion and likely not talking about [...]
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Creativity Mindset Formula
Thinking through yesterday’s post, I was reminded of the formula Dr. Ruth Noller integrated into her teachings when I was one of her undergrads. C=ƒa {K I E} Creativity equals the function of an attitude multiplied by knowledge, imagination and evaluation. Makes sense, no? Here are two thought journeys for you. What outcomes might you [...]
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New Year Visioning from Dr. Jean Houston – a creative exercise for setting intention
A New Year Exercise to Pave the Way for Galloping Synchronicities The New Year is a great time to reflect. This exercise comes from Jean Houston. If you do the steps be ready to experience strange and wonderful coincidences because it sets a powerful and clear intention and allows your creative and ‘deep mind’ to [...]
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New US patent law comes into effect Spring 2013. How does this effect creativity?
The rules for filing a US patent will change this spring. They will honour inventors who are first to file, rather than those first to invent. see Leahy-Smith America Invents Act Implementation. Today’s Questions What do you like about this change? What future positive potentials are presented because of this? In what ways might this [...]
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A bike helmet innovation: it calls your ‘peeps’ if you are in a crash
ICEdot has created a helmet that gets in touch with your emergency contacts if you have an accident that severely impacts your helmet. The invention process began with the idea originator asking, “What would happen if… I crashed and no one I knew was close by?” Looking for an innovation opportunity? Asking What if… might [...]
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Is commitment to meeting times a challenge?
Greetings all. A few quick questions. Do people ask for a call with you, by phone or Skype and then either call much later than planned, or change the time/date just on the cusp of the call occurring? Last week a respected colleague was 20 minutes late for both of the phone calls we arranged [...]
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How to Win at Innovation’s Dragons’ Den (or Shark Tank)
Wonder how to select the best ideas for innovation and present them to Dragons/Sharks? Your responses to seven questions for prototyping (adapted from Otto Sharmer’s Presencing Institute) may just be thing you need to get a yes. How is it relevant? Why does it matter to all the key stakeholders involved at each level – [...]
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