The interplay of business, art and science
Posted in Creativity at Work Newsletter, Home on Oct 29th, 2009
In today’s environment, career resilience is an essential attribute for success, even for survival. “If you identify with your job or career, you’re in trouble, because that changes,” says Ms. Naiman
Posted in ARTS, Science, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
New research shows musical training sharpens the ability to sense emotions. Makes sense to me. Music, especially classical, conveys many subtle emotions. Music and other arts help us develop our sense perceptions. Our perceptions shape our perspective and vice versa. According to Dana L. Strait and a team of researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois, years [...]
Posted in Events, Home, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
Composition 10 by Kandinsky Saturday Nov 28, 2009 Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Venue: Unity Church, 5840 Oak Street, Vancouver Cost: $79.00 each day (includes art supplies, tea, coffee and cookies ) Please bring a lunch. Registration: Please contact Bob Gault at ergault@telus.net or call 604.941.2770 Facilitated by Linda Naiman Explore the process of painting as a [...]
Posted in ARTS, Artful Leadership, Home on Oct 26th, 2009
In today’s environment, career resilience is an essential attribute for success, even for survival. “If you identify with your job or career, you’re in trouble, because that changes,” says Ms. Naiman. “But if you know who you are and can take a stand for what you believe in – your values – you have a ‘north star’ to guide you.”
Posted in Artful Leadership, DESIGN, Events, arts-in-business on Oct 21st, 2009
Alchemy of Leadership: Going for the Gold By Linda Naiman Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee engagement, change and renewal. How [...]
Posted in Creativity and Innovation Training, Home on Oct 13th, 2009
Leslie Stevens-Huffman interviewed me and other industry leaders for an HR Executive Online story on creativity training in a recession. She says “Training may have taken a backseat during the downturn, but some HR executives are looking to add courses in creativity and innovation to drive their companies out of the recession. Such training won’t [...]
Linda Naiman is a creativity and innovation consultant, coach, speaker and co-author of Orchestrating Collaboration at Work.
She applies arts-based learning and design-thinking to leadership development, creativity and innovation.
Orchestrating Collaboration at Work is an activity book for trainers, coaches, mediators and facilitators, who want to use the arts to create transformative learning experiences in organizations.
