Category: Creativity

I was asked recently to give a lunch-time talk about creativity to a healthcare communications agency with a completely reasonable question: What are some simple tips to be more creative

I talk often about how to facilitate a better brainstorm, but this time I want to focus on the participants themselves – specifically, how can you be a better brainstormer

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

Leverage People’s Differences is Post #6 in a series from a presentation entitled 11 Great Creative Slip-Ups:  The Most Common Mistakes in Brainstorming. The introduction to the series begins here.

Sometimes, to find your idea, you need to get away from it. It’s sort-of like looking for love. Last week, I overheard two people moaning about their inability to find a

Reframing is a creative technique used to shift an initial or existing mindset to be able to look at a situation, problem or idea from a different perspective. If that definition

When you read a typical list of the characteristics of a creative person, you sometimes have to wonder if it’s a complement. Some of them are attributes I admire now

A big fan of lists, I kept an article entitled The Innovator vs. The Pseudo-Innovator for its insight into the characteristics of an innovator. It’s a good list for two specific reasons.

It’s going to happen, if you haven’t experienced it already: an unsuccessful brainstorm that didn’t generate one single usable idea. This topic came up yesterday when I was talking with

I might walk out the front door without my house keys, but I never leave home without a pad of paper and a pen. It’s also my first answer if