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Andy Eklund

Training for Business, Communications and Creativity

Category: Innovation

Posts under Innovation focus on bringing ideas to life through refining, adapting and prototyping.

  • Open Mind, Closed Mind 1
    • in Brainstorm Techniques · Creative Process · Innovation · Negativity
    • — 30 Apr, 2012

    Open Mind, Closed Mind

    Do you operate in a Closed Mode or Open Mode when at work? Knowing he difference between them, and tips to switch from one to the other, may make all the difference when you need to be creative at work.

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    • in Brainstorm Techniques · Creativity · Innovation
    • — 10 Nov, 2011

    How Not To Be Creative

    An easy guide to be “uncreative”

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  • How to Tap Employee Ideas 0
    • in Brainstorm Techniques · Creativity · Innovation · Public Relations
    • — 29 Aug, 2011

    How to Tap Employee Ideas

    A great collection of thoughts by Tim Donnelly for Inc magazine on how to tap employee ideas, which is cleverly entitled How To Tap Employee Ideas. Here’s Donnelly’s introduction: “Encouraging your[…]

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    • in Creativity · Innovation · Other People's Words
    • — 5 Jul, 2011

    The Principles Of Creative Leadership, by Sir Ken Robinson

    Always someone worth listening to: Sir Ken Robinson, speaking about the principles of creative leadership, specifically the importance organisations should place on creativity. Here’s a sampling the article for Fast Company:[…]

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    • in Brainstorm Techniques · Creativity · Innovation
    • — 6 Jun, 2011

    Brainstorming in a Digital World, Part 2

    Part #1 is here. When I began leading brainstorms as a full-time activity, one of the first strange experiences was running an ideation session with a group of people who[…]

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    Characteristics Of An Innovator 0
    • in Change Management · Creativity · Curiosity · Innovation · Other People's Words
    • — 28 May, 2010

    Characteristics Of An Innovator

    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 a[…]

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      • Reframing
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      • PowerPoint
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