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Author: Andy Eklund

How to Find the Right Facilitator

If you’ve decided that hiring an external meeting or brainstorm facilitator is your best option, here are some recommendations and tips to find the right facilitator for your project or
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Being Creative vs Common Sense

Being creative isn’t always about what’s right in front of you. Often, being creative means learning to subdue your common sense while harnessing your subconscious thinking to work more effectively in creating
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Be Risky With Your Ideas

Be Risky with Your Ideas! is Post #10 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Coming Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins
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Strategic Thinking and Creative Thinking Together

Strategic Thinking and Creative Thinking Together

It’s interesting to me how often the words strategic thinking and creative thinking are used in business conversations. More concerning, I’m not 100% certain we always know what these words
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The Steps of Strategic Thinking

I recently taught a course on strategic thinking, and whle the materials were helpful, it was also strange there weren’t any actual steps of stategic thinking. That is, what exactly do you
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How to Create a PESTEL

The PESTEL diagram – aka PESTLE, PEST or STEP – is one the most useful tools to help an organisation understand the external pressures and factors that will affect its
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Attributes of a Good Communicator

We may not know instantly what attributes make a good communicator, but as the phrase goes, we know it when we see it. In my Advanced Communications workshops, I ask participants
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Hardiness

Are Your People Ready for Change?

If you’re part of a change program, one of the first questions you’ll ask yourself is Are our people ready for change? If you do, you’re really asking about two
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What is Accurate Thinking?

Has anyone ever suggested you need to learn ‘accurate thinking’ but you had no idea what they were talking about? Accurate thinking is a popular thinking method developed in the early
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10 Ways to Work Better

10 Simple Ways To Work Better

Classic words that remain excellent advice. 1.  Do one thing at a time. 2.  Know the problem you need to address.  (And, don’t solve the wrong problem.) 3.  Learn to
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