Nov 12, 2024 | 6 Switches, AI, Box and Ball Modes, Creativity, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Team leaders, think outside the box
In the next 2 minutes you could: clean your teeth brush your hair boil the jug for a cup of tea… Or you could switch your mode of thinking from say critical to creative thinking. Or logic to imagination. Or analysis to intuition. Or looking at the parts to...
Oct 9, 2024 | 6 Switches, mode of thinking, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Teaching, Team leaders
In this podcast I talk to my former Kung Fu teacher Shifu Brett Russell. In a wide-ranging interview we talk about my journey from corporate marketing to completing a PhD on Organisational Creativity, teaching at university part-time and running my own business. And...
Aug 5, 2024 | Change, Coaching, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, Teaching, Team leaders
My Switch Thinking workshops and courses are principally aimed at helping people to change their thinking so as to be more creative, innovative and develop new growth opportunities. And of course this is what the sessions did achieve (based on participant feedback)....
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 20, 2024 | Better ideas and solutions, Brainstorming, co-create, Coaching, Creativity, Switch Thinking, Teaching, Team leaders
Many years ago I used to lead a marketing team. My role as I understood it to be was to motivate and develop the people that reported to me. And of course to achieve my agreed goals. Talking to leaders today I believe there is an additional role. To stimulate, inspire...
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...
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