Employees to Bring Ideas to the Table
“Creativity is a Function of Leadership” -Linda Naiman For years your leadership has been telling your employees what to do and how to do things. After all these years, you realize you are losing...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2017
A Change to Be Creative in Your Business If this past year has been challenging for you…You are not alone. The New Year is built as an invitation to look at everything with a fresh set of eyes, and a...
View ArticleSeeing Things Differently
“Everyone has two eyes but no one has the same view.” Seeing what everyone else see’s is one thing. Seeing things differently than others is something else. Sometimes the more creative you are, the...
View ArticleBeing an Inspired Leader
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams Leadership may not have a one-size-fits-all definition. Your leadership...
View ArticleEmbrace Your Creativity
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.” -Katherine Hepburn Creativity is prized in children until around the fourth grade. Then society says, you now have to conform...
View ArticleLeading an Empowered Creative Organization
Great Managers Empower Their Organizations to Innovate As the leader of your organization, how much do you really know about each of your employees? Ask yourself how creative and innovative your...
View ArticleBuild Jumpstarting Innovation into Your Business
Too many businesses continue staying with their same old ways of doing business and getting the same old results. With this in mind, you may not realize that you actually lose market share of clients...
View ArticleLeading with Courage and Confidence
“Creativity Takes Courage” -Henri Matisse There are no precise ingredients that constitute great leadership. Leaders bring different backgrounds and experiences that represent the ingredients of each...
View ArticleConnecting Your Leadership with Your Employees
Great workplaces are a utopia of productivity, collaboration, innovation, and success. The leaders of these workplaces inspire their employees and ignite their passion for greater breakthrough results....
View ArticleEmpathy as the New Luxury for Consumers
Is Empathy An Unexpected Element Of Luxury Today? Your customers walk through your store looking for what they want to purchase. They find what they want but not the color they want. Your customer asks...
View ArticleUnconventional Wisdom at Its Best
Most people usually think of Conventional wisdom at its best. The problem most people have with this is that conventional wisdom goes so far today then it stops working for what you need....
View ArticleIt’s All About Finding People Smarter than You
“It’s all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the...
View ArticleLeaders Encouraging Creative Risks
Encouraging Smart Risks in the Workplace “Research suggests that psychological safety and the willingness to take risks are potent antecedents to creative insight.” – David Burkus Many business leaders...
View ArticleGetting Through the Second Half of 2017
“Optimism is the foundation of courage” – Nicholas Murray Butler Where does the time go? We’re at the halfway mark in 2017. How has 2017 been for you and your business? Are you on track to where you...
View ArticleLeaders Suffering From the Impostor Syndrome
“When you put on a costume, you may look like the real thing to others, but internally you know you are NOT actually that persona.” – Brigette A Cardenas, M.A., TAGT Leadership Conference 2016. As an...
View ArticleCreativity Exercise
Do You Know How Powerful You Are? It’s time for a creative writing exercise! You need to boost your creativity. Essentially, those of you who believe you are not creative this one’s for you....
View ArticleBusiness Leaders Need to Be More Creative
“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued.” – Ken Robinson Running a company is not what it used...
View ArticleTo Be or Not to Be Creative
“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” – Edward de Bono To be or not to be creative, that’s the question. Before you decide not to be...
View ArticleGetting Comfortable Taking Innovation Risks
Is Bravery at the Top of Your Leaders’ Qualities List? Working with creative ideas in order to create and then produce a breakthrough result most leaders don’t realize you need to get comfortable with...
View ArticleCatalyst Leadership for Creative Innovation
Sparking Change in Your Leadership “Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson Do You Have What It Takes to...
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