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Creativity at Work: Consulting, Coaching, Training and Development

Creativity at Work is a consulting, coaching and training alliance at the forefront of creating transformational change in organizations. Our focus is on leadership and team development, creativity, collaboration, and cultivating environments that foster innovation.

We believe in positive psychology and the philosophy of Appreciative Inquiry (AI): People and organisations flourish when they focus on human ideals, achievements, and best practices.

Clients include Fortune 500 companies, public sector organizations, and consultancies.

The case for arts-based learning

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Questions we help clients answer.

Here's how we can help:

Executive education

Leadership development

Creativity and innovation consulting

Experiential learning & Coaching reinforcement

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Coaching

Cultivating 21st Century Thinking and Perceiving Skills

"You can't expect your business to be a 21st-century success story if you persist in using 19th-century techniques to run it. A fundamental re-think is needed. In the age of Web 2.0 and wikinomics, managers must modernise or die." - Gary Hamel.

Skills in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration and innovation are crucial for achieving success in a global Creative Economy.

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The Management Innovation Index

The Management Innovation Index (MIX) assists organisations in synchronizing leadership, management and strategy for innovative and measurable business outcomes.

MIX gives you a snapshot of your organization's management innovation capabilities and capacities at a given moment in time.

It does this by surveying your organizational culture, environment, strategy and practice and your employees' beliefs and attributes in relation to management and innovation.

Can the Management Innovation Index Assist Your Organisation?

Get an assessment of your creative thinking preferences immediately. Click here to trial MIX

Linda Naiman in the Globe and Mail on career resilience, creativity, and coaching

Coaching for Creativity and Innovation

A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs says creativity is the number one ‘leadership competency’ of the future. "Successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity.”

Creativity and innovation  coaching  provides leaders, innovators and change agents, with the support they need to develop talent, turn ideas into action, put creativity to work, and develop strategies for innovation.

Linda Naiman on creativity, career resilience and coaching in Canada's Globe and Mail.

Out of the box creativity

Creativity at Work

Organisations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal.

Generating fresh solutions to problems, and the ability to create new products, processes or services for a changing market, are part of the intellectual capital that give a company its competitive edge. Integrative thinking provides you with a strategic road map for creativity, problem-solving, innovation and transformation.

What is Creativity?
Developing creativity and innovation in your organization

Coaching

Short Takes: Inspiring talks about creativity, innovation and leadership

Linda Naiman is a frequent speaker at international conferences and business forums. These highly visual, interactive presentations are designed to inform, inspire and ignite creative thinking.

Consider hiring Linda Naiman to speak at your next meeting.

Creativity World Forum,
Nov 15-17 2010, Oklahoma

Linda Naiman will be speaking at the Creativity World Forum, along with Sir Ken Robinson, Dan Pink, and other luminaries.

Creativity World Forum

See also

The Alchemy of Leadership Webinar, Exerpts from Linda's talk at a Leadership Symposium (Youtube)

Orchestrating Collaboration at Work

Orchestrating Collaboration at Work: Using music, improv, storytelling and other arts to improve teamwork.

By Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman.

Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, comprised of 70 arts-based exercises and activities to develop teamwork, collaborative leadership and creativity.

Corporate Alchemy: Art is a catalyst
for creativity, collaboration, and transformational leadership.

Learn techniques and methodologies you can start using immediately to instill passion and mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees.

Learn leadership "best practices" to foster a culture that supports creativity and innovation at all levels of the organization

Build longitudinal capacity for creativity, communication and collaborative leadership

Alchemy of Leadership: Developing the Artful Leader

Transformative Power of Art

What is the connection between leaders and artists?

A context for arts-based learning.

Articles & Blogs about Creativity and Innovation

Creativity at Work TM is a rich resource for developing personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace. Explore the thinking and perceiving skills of artists, scientists, inventors, leaders and visionaries through the articles on this site.

What is Creativity? How do you define creativity and innovation?

Eight reasons why brainstorming doesn’t work, and what you can do about it.

What is the leadership quality CEOs value most right now?

Creativity at Work Newsletter

The Creativity at Work Newsletter provides overviews of new research in creativity and innovation, 'best practices' of leading organizations, links to new or relevant websites and an array ideas and techniques from innovation experts. This free newsletter is published monthly via email and your privacy is respected.

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