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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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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PechaKucha 20×20 – Toronto – Vol. 23 – World Creativity + Innovation Week
World Creativity & Innovation Week is an annual 7 day celebration established in 2001. Similar to PechaKucha, it started as a grassroots initiative in Toronto by Marci Segal and has organically expanded to some 46 different countries to date. PechaKucha Night Toronto is excited to be collaborating with WCIW, celebrating creativity and innovation on April [...]
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Keep creativity simple for World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21
Greetings all, I know some of you are wondering what to do for your World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15-21 because you know you’ve got it. You know you can, and the others around you can… generate new ideas make new decisions take new actions to make the world a better place and to [...]
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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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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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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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Enter Your Future During World Creativity and Innovation Week April 15 – 21
Imagine your future 20 years from now, when you are rich, powerful, exceptionally accomplished and getting everything you want out of life. The behaviour patterns you use today – will they get you there or might you need a change or two? What’s holding you back, what’s propelling you forward? The context for innovation changes [...]
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