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
FAQs
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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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Corporate Alchemy: Art is a catalyst
for creativity, collaboration, and transformational leadership.
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Articles & Blogs about Creativity and Innovation
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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.
Current Newsletters
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Please join in on interesting developments in the Creative Economy, and the interplay of business, art and science.
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