15 Foundations for Facilitating Creativity at Work. The following are lessons learned and insights gleaned from the trial and error of facilitating creative process with hundreds of individuals and organizations over the past 12 years. It requires a different focus, skill set, way of being and "container creation" than facilitating analytical processes. Below are some of the many principles and practices I've learned or discovered.
Take what resonates and leave the rest :-) Dynamic Balance and Facilitating Creativity in the Workplace 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Safety will allow people to open up and move into unknown territory without the fear of criticism, failure. 12. 14. Facilitating transformational creativity requires your presence, adaptability, agile thinking…AND discernment. 15. . ~ Michelle James ©2010 Go to for more on our next Creative Facilitation Workshop. Fluid Networks: The Next Agency Model? Cultural Change. Home. Jeffrey Phillips’s Presentations on SlideShare. Innovate on Purpose. Weconomy | Chi divide perde, chi condivide vince. Wide Angle » The Open Innovation Toolbox. We often think of open innovation as one technique, when in fact it represents a range of techniques that serve different purposes.
These techniques fall along a spectrum from the most open (anyone can submit any idea, the crowd selects the best) to the least open (pre-screened experts submit ideas on a specific problem, the company selects the best). Three choices determine which tool you end up with: 1) who to include, 2) what to ask, and 3) how to select answers. Answers to these questions will depend on your objectives: are you trying to boost engagement, solve an urgent challenge, or understand the most widespread customer needs?
A better understanding of the benefits and challenges of each technique in the toolbox will improve success rates and limit frustrations. Jeffrey Phillips at Ovo Innovation recently built a typology of open innovation, based on different approaches to idea collection (who is asked and what they are asked). 1. 2. 3. 4. Who We Work With | The Value Web. Ticonzero | Marketing e idee per manager. Learning Optimism with the 24x3 Rule - Anthony Tjan. By Anthony K. Tjan | 9:47 AM July 26, 2011 One of my greatest mentors was the late Jay Chiat of TBWA Chiat Day, an iconoclast in the field of advertising with a constant imagination for possibilities in business and life.
Jay embodied the three traits of a “lucky attitude” that I described in my last post: humility, intellectual curiosity, and optimism. Of these three characteristics, it was Jay’s optimism which was perhaps his greatest lesson to me. He inspired people to embrace optimism — inside themselves, and also, as importantly, in others. It is a gift to understand how to project, share, and inspire with optimism.
It is an even greater act of generosity to be inspired by optimism from others and to be willing to receive it. The capacity to be a natural recipient of ideas and other peoples’ optimism is what makes for the ultimate optimist. Here’s a practical tool for the skeptic or cynic in all of us: the 24×3 rule.