Category: Creativity & Innovation
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Open plan, hot desking, small offices: What is Best?
During a number of my recent presentations on innovation, motivation and performance I have referred to office design as a way of encouraging people to be creative and innovative. It started to occur to me that apart from all of the examples I had seen and experienced myself as an employee I wasn’t really sure…
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Copy Paste
I do a lot of copying and pasting across multiple documents and I often have to copy multiple things such as text and images many times over and the limited copy and paste function that comes with your standard computer really slows the process down.I have been keen to use a tool that allows me…
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Greyhound Racing or Education?
My Two Rescue Dogs Ethical dilemmas are by definition challenging. I am not condoning cruelty to animals but aren’t there more critical issues in the state of NSW than greyhound racing? Why not horse racing as well? In a recent ABC news article it is estimated that compensation to the industry and those connected to…
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Creativity Games
I was looking for some good creativity games the other day. If you are doing the same some time try out this website. Some good ideas here. Games here.
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Nothing to do with training
I just had to write this post despite the fact that it doesn’t really have anything to do with training, or does it. I talk a lot about drones in my sessions. I’m not really sure why but they fascinate me and I find that participants are interested in them too. The video below is…
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Innovation
Here is an innovative view of innovation. The 13 dimensions. See the 13 Dimensions here.
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Creativity and Innovation
I have been delivering a few programs this year around innovation, creativity and teams. A fascinating area especially when you try to accurately define the terms creativity and innovation. I won’t even try here as there are about 100 different categories of definitions according to one article that I read. I do go along with…
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Thinking Style
How do you think? What is your preferred approach? If you aware of your thinking style you can optimise your effectiveness and you can also practice the types of thinking you generally avoid making you a more flexible person. Check out the article below from Harvard Business Review and analyse your thinking style. I am…
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Sunday Zephyr – Drawing up your life
How’s your Sunday going? I facilitate a lot of training that includes goal setting. I often think that people either don’t really get the point of effective goals or they just ignore the training advice and don’t set goals at any stage in their life. Maybe goals are just a little too dull and laborious…