Author: Andy Eklund

Should you present standing up? Or sitting down? There’s difference. The decision is not inter-changable. When I lead a Presentation Skills workshop, participant will usually say they’d prefer to sit

Here’s something a tad embarrassing. I was born on the same day as legendary inventor Thomas Edison (well, 115 year later). Ever since I realised who we was and what he

When I taught a class in public relations at Columbia College in Chicago, a fellow teacher shared with me Frank Visco’s original list of tips for good writing, entitled How

In an earlier post on , I missed the one I think is most challenging: “That’s not creative.“ It’s extremely difficult to refute a response based entirely on someone’s subjective opinion.

Although negativity most often affects the brainstorming part of the creative process, it’s equally destructive in the last stage – the merchandising phase – when you’re packaging and selling the

To suggest that you can switch off someone’s negativity is a bit like telling someone to stop smoking cigarettes. It’s an easy comment for a non-smoker to make, but a

As someone who’s spent a lot of time in or conducting brainstorms, here are the most common reasons why we are negative. (Frankly, some of these people don’t even need

There’s an old phrase from Winston Churchill that perfectly sums up for me how negativity affects creativity. You will never reach your destination if you throw stones at every dog

This post is the third and final in a series on Finishing a Brainstorm, focusing on Verifying. The two other posts are Clarify (#1) and Amplify (#2). Also, this topic is