Creativity and Innovation
The range of Creativity and Innovation products includes inventories and assessments to help participants uncover and develop workplace creative skills. The products are supported by comprehensive Facilitator Guides.
Creativity now tops the list of critical ‘soft skills’. The ability to make new things or think of new ideas demonstrably makes a substantial contribution to performance and profitability. Through systematic development individuals and teams are able to improve their creative problem-solving skills and manage their creativity.
Becoming more productive and creative enables individual and organisations to become more effective leaders in today's competitive markets. Your competition is likely to target it as a skill for development now and in the future - and you should, too.
The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
Need to run a workshop? Your attendees are trusting you with their time and attention. What are you giving them in return?
Most workshops don't work. They fail to deliver real results and they fail to keep the audience energetic and engaged. They're stressful to run and painful to attend.
Designing and running a brilliant workshop is easier than you think. It's not about flashy showmanship or natural charisma. Instead, it's about following a set of clear, simple rules for structuring and arranging the day.
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Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity
THE classic work about improving creativity from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono
In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. What then?
Lateral thinking is all about freeing up your imagination. Through a series of special techniques, in groups or working alone, Edward de Bono shows how to stimulate the mind in new and exciting ways.
Soon you will be looking at problems from a variety of angles and offering up solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. You will become much more productive and a formidable thinker in your own right.
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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
'A goldmine of surprising insights. Makes you smarter with every page' – James Clear, author of Atomic Habits
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller. As featured on Diary of a CEO.
The essential guide to improving your performance, and a powerful playbook for success in any field: develop range while everyone around you is rushing to specialize.
You may have been taught that success in any field requires early specialization, and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. If you only dabble or delay, you'll never catch up with those who got a head start. This is completely wrong.
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
What makes someone creative? How does someone face the empty page, the empty stage and making something where nothing existed before?
Not just a dilemma for the artist, it is something everyone faces everyday. What will I cook that isn't boring? How can I make that memo persuasive? What sales pitch will increase the order, get me the job, lock in that bonus? These too, are creative acts, and they all share a common need: proper preparation. For Twyla Tharp, creativity is no mystery; it's the product of hard work and preparation, of knowing one's aims and one's subject, of learning from approaches taken in the past. It's a process undertaken every day. It's a habit. The Creative Habit is not merely a look inside the mind of a remarkable woman with remarkable skills, but a programmatic, inspiring, encouraging guide to help each of us achieve our fullest creative potential.
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