This month’s newsletter features:
- Mix: Introducing the Management Innovation Index©
- Upcoming seminars at Royal Roads University on Creativity, Collaboration, Innovation
- Books worth reading
Introducing the Management Innovation Index©
According to Gary Hamel, author of The Future of Management, the three big challenges for companies over the next generation are going to be:
- Adaptability: How you build things that can transform themselves.
- Innovation: How you mobilise the imagination of every single person in your organisation.
- Engagement: How you create organisations that are so engaging emotionally and intellectually that people want to bring their capabilities to work.
Yet, 50% of the organisations with innovation objectives, have systems and processes which stifle or impede innovation.
The Creative Leadership Forum Learning Centre, (an Australian-based global management consultancy of which I am a Senior Associate) has developed a new research tool to help organisations address these challenges:
The Management Innovation Index, known as MIX, is designed to assist organisations in synchronizing their leadership, management and strategy to produce innovative and measurable business outcomes.
MIX gives you a snapshot of your organisation’s management innovation capabilities and capacities, by surveying your organisational culture, environment, strategy and practice, as well as your employees’ beliefs and attributes in relation to management and innovation. Click here for details
Upcoming seminars at Royal Roads University on
Creativity, Collaboration, Innovation
Learn the leadership and management skills required to succeed as an innovator in today’s economy.
Solution-Finding: Leading with Creativity
February 9 & 10, 2010We Are Smarter Than Me: Making Collaboration Work
February 12, 2010Putting Passion to Work: Potent Transformational Leadership
May 6, 2010
Books Worth Reading
Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses
What can organizations learn from the Intersection of Business and the Performing Arts? Rochelle T. Mucha, in her new book, Aesthetic Intelligence: Reclaim the Power of Your Senses, answers this question by examining how principles and practices of performing arts can be used to strengthen alignment, leadership, learning, and performance in organizations. Continued…
The Change Artist
Carla Rieger has written a compelling story, inspired by true events in her own life. After her father’s death, Rieger found the journal she had once given him and discovered he had filled it with details about the secrets of his past. Continued…
Essence of Grieving: Using Poetry as a Guide for the Grieving Process.
If you have ever suffered from the loss of a loved one, you will appreciate the exquisite range of emotions Ed Gray evokes in his poetry about grief. Written as a means of coping with the loss of his wife Nancy, who died of ALS, Gray’s poetry pays tribute to love, life, loss, and healing. Gray, a former engineer, illustrates the transformational power of the arts as a means of tapping into spirituality, creative expression, and healing. His poetry offers comfort, hope and guidance for anyone suffering from grief.
To buy the book, visit EssenceofGrieving.com
Creativity, Resilience and Coaching
The individuals and groups who seek my coaching, are often on a Hero’s Journey of change and transformation.
For many, this means learning to create, lead and collaborate; and making the shift from success to significance.
Let me coach you to achieve these results! I will assist you in clarifying your values, vision and goals, and help you develop specific plans to fulfill them, by providing you with resources and support to help you succeed.
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Wishing you a joyful, peaceful Holiday Season. See you in the New year!
Linda Naiman
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About Creativity at Work
Creativity at Work is a consulting, coaching, and training alliance at the forefront of creating transformational change in organizations. Here’s how we can help:
Training and development in Leadership, collaboration, creativity and innovation.
Life and Business Coaching , Arts-based learning, Skills Development in Creativity, Collaboration and Innovation, applied to Leadership, Management and Teams. Management Innovation. Off-sites and Corporate Retreats. Speaking at your event or conference.
About The 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. Please forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues.
