How to get creative – backwards and forwards
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Human resources
How creative are you? Do you know your creative assets and blind spots? Keep reading for a simple way to discover them. With help from the wonderful Dolly Hopkins, I created a creativity skill set called E.S.C.A.P.E. Each of the letters stands for a different creativity skill. The ‘A’ stands for assumptions, as in identifying […]
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How do you get creative? Why use a mosha cup of course
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Human resources, Training & development
I was driving to pick up my hubbie from the airport and listening to Stuart McLean’s the Vinyl Cafe on CBC radio. The tunes were great and I was bopping and singing along, a great big grin plastered wide on my face. Stuart was relaying his tales of growing up in Montreal, and, as only […]
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4 simple steps for how to get dreams out of your head & into reality
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation, Human resources
Do you have a hard time getting dreams out of your head and into reality? Not sure what to do with inspiration when it hits mid-meeting or at midnight? While you may be able to come up with new ideas, what to do with the pesky, flighty fellows is a whole other matter. Based on […]
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Want to know how you measure up on creativity skills?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
What are your creative strengths and gaps? Take this 6 question, multiple choice creativity assessment and find out. Oh and if your (un)creative devil is whispering sweet and sour thoughts into your ear like … “I’m not creative” “I don’t have a creative bone in my body” “I don’t ____ (fill in the blank […]
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What do women want?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Good question. Turns out it’s not big, burly men to help carry our parcels to the car. Best Buy was trying to increase sales to women. They hired a male consultant (go figure) who said the answer lay in hiring beefy male employees. Didn’t work (surprise surprise). What did work? Asking their female employees to […]
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Kick the rabbit in the butt & suspend disbelief – it’ll lead to breakthroughs
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
Can you walk on water? These guys can. Check out the video below to see how they do it. “You have to believe … it’s not impossible.” “We’re discovering it as we go along.” Some of it “was by mistake.” “It takes a lot of practice.” “If you fall down try again.” All words of […]
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What is creativity? Making a radio out of a phone
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
The other day my 13 year old nonchalantly took my IPhone and placed it in the radio (see above). What was he doing? Using the radio to play the music off my IPhone. Simple? For him, yes. For me, no. I had banded my thinking, which is a creativity killer. Banded thinking is placing constricting, […]
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What does it take to win Olympic gold in women’s ski cross?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness, Creativity & innovation
On the last day of the Every Woman conference I got to listen to Ashleigh McIvor, the first Olympic gold winner of the women’s ski cross at the recent Winter Olympics. She’s tall and lithe and she had some surprising things to say. How often do you think she thought about winning gold? Would it […]
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Business or pleasure? Why do we have to choose?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation, Human resources
“Business or pleasure?,” said the guy who was sitting beside me on a recent flight. “Business,” I replied. But I got to thinking. What does that say about business? That it can’t be pleasurable? That we can’t have fun or have ease when we’re working? Let’s face it, the old adage ‘put your nose to […]
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White Hot Truth with Danielle LaPorte
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Creativity & innovation
On the eve of launching her new Firestarter Session e-book I sat down with good friend and colleague Danielle LaPorte, of White Hot Truth fame to interview her. Hang onto your fire poker and as we go with the Q &A. Q: For those who aren’t already in the know, who are you and what […]
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