Linda Naiman
Training, Coaching & Consulting for the Creative Economy
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.
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By Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman.
Details: Excerpts, TOC, Endorsements
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Creativity at Work: Winning in the Global Economy
The Global Economy is a Creative Economy, where ideas add value to new products, processes and services. The economic future of an organzation depends on its ability to create wealth by fostering innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
For innovation to flourish, organizations must create an environment that fosters creativity; bringing together multi-talented groups of people who work in close collaboration together- exchanging knowledge, ideas and shaping the direction of the future.
Developing Creativity and Innovation in Your Organization
Stage 1: Discovery, Design & Planning
Assessing your Capabilities and Capacities for Creativity and Innovation through a mix of confidential interviews to capture stories, best practices and barriers, and online surveys.
The Management Innovation Index (MIX) takes the pulse of your organisation's culture, environment, strategy and practice, as well employees beliefs and attributes in relation to creativity and innovation.
Click here to trial the Management Innovation Index
The results of the surveys and interviews will inform the design of your program, from training, to culture change initiatives, and creating the conditions for creativity and innovation to occur.
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Stage 2: 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.
 What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in the next five years? Recent surveys indicate skills in critical thinking, creativity, communication, collaboration and innovation are crucial for achieving success in a global economy.
Executive Education:
Creativity, collaboration and Innovation Skills Development
Creativity is a core competency for leaders and managers, and a crucial component of the innovation equation. Creativity requires whole-brain thinking; right-brain imagination, artistry and intuition, plus left-brain logic and planning.
The Art of Leadership
Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal. According to the IBM 2010 Global CEO Study, CEOs believe that, "more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision - successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity."
Learn key principles, practices and tools you can apply to create a workplace environment where creativity and sustained innovation flourish.
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Stage 3: Design-Thinking as a Strategy for Innovation
Creating a Desired Future Through Discovery, Dialogue, Imagination and Design. We incorporate the principles of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and Whole Brain Thinking to bring life and vitality to organizations
We use artistic processes in concert with dialogue, weaving right-brain imagination with left-brain logic and analysis to help you uncover breakthrough solutions.
Arts-based dialogue produces desired outcomes in dramatically less time than traditional methodologies. No prior drawing or painting experience is necessary for these conversations.
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The Alchemy of Coaching: Transform and Sustain Organizational Learning
We provide coaching to develop a greater capacity for leadership, management, communications, creativity, and innovation in your people, to help them navigate change and transformation. We also provide individual and group coaching support for your innovators.
Coaching is solution-focused, goal orientated and will help you achieve measurable results. The coaching process encourages the development of leadership, creativity, commitment and responsibility.
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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.
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
Upcoming workshops at Royal Roads University, 2010-11
www.royalroads.ca/continuing-studies
Public Workshops at Royal Roads University 2010-2011:
- The Alchemy of Leadership - Nov 9, 2010
- Putting Passion to Work: Developing the People Side of Innovation- Nov 25, 2010
- Collaboration: Avoid the Traps, Create Unity and Reap Big Results - Feb 3, 2011
- Whole Brain Thinking: Cultivate 21st Century Creativity and Leadership -May 27-28, 2011
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Benefits of an integrative appraoch to learning and development
Create a language and a structure for creativity and innovation
Cultivate a high-performance culture in which people can flourish.
Engage hearts and minds of employees
Apply design principles to leadership and management innovation
Become better idea-generators and problem-solvers
Improve performance, efficiency and productivity
Orchestrate collaboration in teams
Develop new ways to connect with, and add value for your customer
How can we help you innovate?
To discuss how we may help you foster creativity and
innovation in your organization, please contact:
Linda Naiman
Creativity at Work
Tel: +1 604.327.1565
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© Copyright 2010, Linda Naiman, Creativity at Work. All rights reserved. www.creativityatwork.com
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