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Employee Development Activity: Focus Your Team in the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

Focus your team with this fast and remarkably effective employee development activity You know exactly WHAT your team needs to have a remarkable new year, now it’s time to focus on HOW. How do you identify the habits that will make the biggest difference? In today’s Asking for a Friend, I share an EASY, and CREATIVE development exercise we’ve been using with teams worldwide– to build the habits most critical to their success.

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How the Wine Industry Conspires to Make You Look Like an Idiot

Creative Realities

Paddy Miller told the audience at the World Innovation Forum that one of the keys to innovation is correctly framing the problem before you search for the solution.

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Innovation Speed Bump: Disagreement between Words, Tones & Nonverbals

Creative Realities

It's not always what you say; it's how you say it. Crystal clear communication is a cirtical piece of any innovation effort. We all know that words are not the only way we communicate with each other.

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The Silos Effect (a.k.a. Collaboration's Kryptonite)

Creative Realities

Over the last 22 years we have worked with hundreds of clients in over 35 different industries. This is important to establish because we know the following topic is a factor in any industry.

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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Your Training Program

Learning how to promote your training courses online is key to growing your training business. In this Ultimate Guide to Marketing we cover effective and modern marketing strategies that will help you market your training program, and sell more courses. You’ll learn how to: Harness the power of SEO to drive website traffic Convert more website visitors to sales Create smart email marketing campaigns Get the most out of course marketplaces Establish a referral program And more… Get ready to see y

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Ideation Skills: Active Listening and Headlining

Creative Realities

In the last Ideation Skills post, we discussed Passive Listening, the problematic way people typically tend to listen in creative problem solving meetings. Here I will outline two simple techniques to enhance your ability to listen, generate ideas, and communicate your ideas to the group. These two skills will make you a creative problem solving meeting All-Star in no time.

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Ideation Skills: The Trouble with Passive Listening

Creative Realities

Here at Creative Realities, we have identified some critical ideation skills that anyone can develop to become better at creative problem solving. The first one I will discuss involves the way we listen.

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An UnBirthday Tribute

Creative Realities

Today is Shel Silverstein's unbirthday and to celebrate I am dedicating today's post to him.

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Game-Changing vs. Incremental Innovation

Creative Realities

This past week I got sucked into what I thought was a pretty weak online debate. The question posed was, "Is Incremental innovation the enemy of Breakthrough Innovation?

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Creativity – Innate Capability or Learnable Skill?

Creative Realities

Creativity can be a skill in everyone's toolkit if elicited in the right way.

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Global Innovation. It's 5 O'clock somewhere

Creative Realities

What happens when global collaboration becomes a 24/7/365 life?

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Next Level eLearning – The AI-powered Courseware Coach

Introducing Willow from WILL Interactive – a new artificial instructor technology that coaches users through eLearning content to increase training ROI. Using active conversations with a virtual expert not only reinforces key concepts but also helps employees think critically and creatively. Willow can ask questions, analyze responses, and deliver personalized feedback.