Sep 29, 2024 | Box and Ball Modes, Switch Thinking, Switch your Thinking, think outside the box
I am not a neuroscientist (i.e. people who focus on the brain and its impact on behaviour and cognitive functions) but I am more and more interested in the work they do. Partly this is due to the fact that our brain is being scanned through advanced fMRI techniques....
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 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...
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...
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