Sep 10, 2024 | AI, Creativity, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking
Switch Thinking by Dr Ken Hudson is based on an insight watching bilingual people switch languages. Dr Hudson wondered if you could learn to switch the language you were using perhaps you could switch your thinking. Being bilingual is a learned skill and hence your...
Jul 29, 2024 | 6 Switches, Coaching, Creativity, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Teaching, Team leaders, think outside the box
Let’s use the simple light switch as a metaphor to think about creativity. You can switch your creativity on. And you can switch it off. it’s a useful metaphor to describe my experience teaching, facilitating and coaching leaders in the past 20 years about...
Jul 13, 2024 | Get Unstuck, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Think Differently, think outside the box
Some 10 years ago I felt slightly nauseous after a game of soccer. Not suspecting anything I went off to my local GP and he put it down to a bug that i may have picked up on a recent overseas trip. On further examination he suggested due to my family history of heart...
Jun 19, 2024 | 6 Switches, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking
I am a great fan of Simon Sinek’s idea of Start with Why? His core idea is that for too long business leaders and brand managers have started with the what and how and ignored the why. Sinek’s proposition is that leaders should start with Why first....
May 6, 2024 | 6 Switches, Coaching, Creativity, Get Unstuck, mode of thinking, Problem Solving, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Team leaders
Have you ever been stuck and then someone suggests a new way at looking at a problem or issue and wham! You suddenly see the situation differently. And by doing so often new ideas, options, solutions magically emerge. These are often random events such as a chance...
Mar 27, 2024 | Brainstorming, Coaching, Creativity, Get Unstuck, mode of thinking, Problem Solving, Switch Thinking, Team leaders, think outside the box
Many leaders encourage their team to think outside the box. This sounds good but it’s its not very helpful. Why? Because it’s hard to do. Here are two reasons why most people struggle to think outside the box. Because of the way our mind works Our mind...
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