your leadership capability and what you need to do if you want to become more creative.
Thinking types and innovation stripes
Bill Olsen is a professional facilitator and trainer who enables ‘accelerated results through creative problem solving’. As a programme manager for the US Navy, Olsen learned and applied creative problem solving to his high-risk project, garnering unparalleled success. He now generates results, having supported clients in the public and private sectors, Fortune 500 corporations, universities and non-profit associations across 14 countries. Creative problem solving and innovation are processes for achieving change, such as new products, breakthrough ideas or different results. Olsen explained that even when using innovative processes, endeavours to change are often unsuccessful because they failed to consider all thinking types. People and entire organisations have unique thinking preferences that identify their attitude towards change, problem solving and decision-making. ‘If you want different results, you need to think differently!’
Successful teams know this. The art of humour in leadership
Dr R. Bruce Baum, is a Professor Emeritus at Buffalo State College and the ‘Head Honcho’ of HumorCreativity. Com. He received degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Indian University. Dr Baum is the author of ‘How to motivate audiences’. He is a colleague in the Creative Education Foundation, a leader in the Annual
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Creative Problem Solving Institute and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Eileen Doyle, president of Deeper Dives, runs highly interactive facilitation, market research and creativity workshops. Doyle has facilitated diverse projects such as ideation sessions, team building, market research, TV casting, ethnography and naming studies. She applies techniques that access the right brain and the left brain, creating an atmosphere where participants use all learning styles; visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.
The duo presented empirical evidence which shows that happy employees are more productive employees. Humour is not the only reason why employees are happy, but it is definitely a contributing factor.
Additionally, employees
consistently state that relationships with colleagues and superiors are often more important than their salary. One way in which people in leadership positions can foster relationships and promote productivity is by including humour in their interpersonal interactions. Moreover, they can help create a work environment where humour is appreciated and valued.
Don’t just sit there! Be creative!
Robert Alan Black, PhD, CSP, has been a full-time creative workplace consultant since 1984, presenting at conferences, conventions, institutes in the US and elsewhere. He has been a university professor of design at the University of Georgia and an adjunct professor of leadership development at Columbus State University.
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