The Creativity at Work Blog

Creativity and Innovation Coaching

A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs says creativity is the number one ‘leadership competency’ of the future. “CEOs believe that, “more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision — 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.

Are you looking to achieve or develop

• Greater creativity and leadership potential?
• Increased productivity
• Creativity and innovation potential?
• A creative and innovative staff?
• A culture in your organization that fosters creativity and innovation
• Resilience against setbacks?

Coaching will help innovators address the following leadership, business, professional and personal opportunities and challenges:

• Accelerating leader growth and development
• Developing design-thinking and other 21st century thinking skills
• Enhancing communication skills
• Develop coach-like skills of questioning, Socratic Inquiry, and deeper listening
• Facilitating knowledge transfer
• Fostering a culture that supports creativity and innovation
• Enhancing self-awareness
• Deepening and influencing workplace conversations
• Stimulating innovative and solution-focused thinking
• Enriching team dynamics and collaboration
• Navigating complexity and ambiguity
• Accelerating effective decision-making

Coaching is an alchemical process designed to help you turn leaden thinking into the gold of wisdom. Coaching is available through one-on-one  confidential phone calls, and  groups.

Design your future. Sculpt your career. Compose your life.

As your coach, 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.

Strategies toward making the shift from success to significance

Aristotle said the noblest goal in life is eudaemonia: Striving toward excellence based on one’s unique talents and potential for the good of others. For many, this means finding your calling, and making the shift from success to significance.

Your Foundation — Self Awareness

Who are you and what do you stand for? Assess your strengths and weaknesses, gifts and talents. Identify your values, interests and passions. Identify and remove the barriers that drain your energy and keep you from moving forward. Develop the habits and behaviours that will help you achieve success.

“Understanding the cycles of creation will help us thrive in change, rather than fear it. We have forgotten that time is cyclical. Nature itself is an example of constant birth, growth, death, and renewal.”
— Linda Naiman, Creativity and the Meaning of Work

Developing Resilience

If you are undergoing a significant change in your life, coaching can help you stay on track and move confidently through the anxiety and confusion that can accompany the process of change. What stage of change and transformation are you in?

Liberate your Creativity:

What would your life look like if it was a work of art? Develop principles and practices from the worlds of art and design to enhance your creativity and effectiveness. Overcome your fears and revive long lost dreams of creative expression. Coaching for creativity will help you begin AND complete your project in whatever art form you choose: writing, painting, music and performing arts.

Finding Your Calling and Creating Your Vision

Aristotle said “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your calling.”

What is your purpose? How do you know if you’re doing what you were meant to do? Formulate the mission, vision and purpose of your life and career, based on your values, dreams, gifts, talents and needs of the world.

Your Brand Strategy

What is a brand? What is your reputational power? What do you want to be known for? Developing your brand message and communication skills will help you get promoted, and win contracts.

Leading Creatively and Collaboratively

Develop a full spectrum of creative leadership and collaboration skills to improve your effectiveness at influencing others and producing desired results.  If you work on your own, if you are an innovator, or if you are a leader of a group, you will benefit from having a confidential thinking partner as a sounding board.

Productivity

It’s not about how many hours you work, it’s what you produce that matters. Frenzied busyness is counter-productive and detrimental to your business. Coaching will help you get more work done in a shorter time with less effort.

Work/Life Balance

Work/Life Balance doesn’t mean your time is evenly divided between personal and business. It means designing the lifestyle you want to live and improving the quality of your life and work. If you could compose your life/career and design your future, what would it look like?

Contact me for a complimentary 30 minute coaching session.

Resources:

My coaching was featured in a Globe and Mail story:
Managing a Midlife Makeover

The Hero’s Journey as a metaphor for coaching

Creativity and the Meaning of Work

How do you find your calling? Contact me for a free article on finding your calling.