Author: Andy Eklund

At a recent meeting, a senior leader used strategic or creative in ways that I instantly knew he did not know the difference between the two words. Later, when I was alone with our

This post on a strong speaking voice is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Insitute of Australia on “How To Make Your

A popular question in many communications workshops is how to prepare a presentation most quickly. Is there some type of simple methodology or process to use when time is limited? The

This post on Eye Contact is #6 in a longer series of articles based on a presentation I gave to the Public Relations Institute of Australia on “How To Make Your Audience

Understanding and articulating the problem (“a less than ideal state” says Gene Agre in The Concept of a Problem (1982) is the most crucial step in creative thinking. But, it’s

During a long bus ride recently, I finished the Australian novel The Slap. Perhaps I was hallucinating after eight hours without WiFi, but I found a lot of symmetry between bad behavior

This is a follow-up post to one of my most popular articles: Brainstorm Icebreakers. People working at their desk need to clear their mind and switch gears before they come into a

Make the Creativity Visible is Post #11 and the last in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series

An earlier post – – brought me lots of thoughts and comments around the topic of Information vs. Knowledge vs. Intelligence. All the feedback centred around one question: Is knowledge