Author: Andy Eklund

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here are some classic words about improving how you can work better will remain excellent advice. 1.  Do one thing at a time. Stop trying to tell yourself you can

As a wrap-up article on giving and receiving feedback, here are the best tips I’ve found over the years. Please feel to add any other thoughts in the Comments section