Sat.Nov 30, 2024

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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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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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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 Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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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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Presenting an Innovative Idea to Management

Creative Realities

The fable comes into play when senior managers try to delegate to their innovation teams in the same they empower their established businesses.

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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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Preventing Workplace Violence and Complying with New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act

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On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (S. 8358B/A. 8947C) into law, requiring retail employers in New York to adopt workplace violence prevention policies and implement training programs by March 2025. This webinar will provide a detailed overview of the Act’s requirements, including developing and providing a retail workplace violence prevention policy/plan and delivering annual interactive training to employees.