Since we live in the world our questions create, "the most interesting thing you can do in life... is to call into question the rules of the game.” Questions make the impossible possible, help the unknown become known, and transform paradigms. To transform yourself, transform your organization, or transform the world learn the art of asking provocative questions.
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
This 36 pages free eBook is a collection of 17 practical exercises for artists. I have learnt some of them over the years and designed some to fulfil my own needs. I am a painter, so most of these exercises are visual ones. However, many of them do not require specific artistic skills and are suitable for anyone regardless of their age or level of artistic ability.
These exercises are varied and you probably already own most of the required materials.
You can use them as warm-up before you start a new project or as a way to explore new avenues. I also hope teachers will use these exercises in their classes as they are great fun.
The Productivity Secret Of The Best LeadersOfficevibe
Content by Jacob Shriar & Kevin Kruse.
In this Officeviibe presentation, you'll see:
- 3 biggest problems leaders face and what you can do to fix them
- The secret to time management
- Examples from great leaders
- You'll find bonus content
This is my talk for TEDx Youth. It's about the three lies about the teen-age that is preached by our day and age. If you want to watch the video of my talk using this Powerpoint deck, you can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8RyQpPpUA
Hi! We're the creative team behind Hypothesis's reports, presentations, and infographics, and we're sharing out our best tips. Please share with someone you think would enjoy this slideshow.
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10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
See it with animations! https://vimeo.com/179236019
It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
What does the future look like? Is it a dark space where we’re suffering from varying degrees of techamphetamine or are we heading towards a Utopian fantasy of abundance and harmony?
Understanding that our basic human needs and wants barely change, we explore the future state of a range of topics; from our need for physical sustenance through to our age-long fascination of transcending the limitations of our biology.
Looking at the future from a human perspective, our potential for greatness is teetering on a fine line between darkness and hope. We’re banking on the latter.
Discover The Top 10 Types Of Colleagues Around YouAnkur Tandon
The best part being with different colleagues is we learn a lot from them. Good or bad, sooner or later, better or best, we learn something unique from the different personalities working with and around us at our workplace. Read more interesting content, at www.thecareermuse.co.in - We intend to inform and inspire recruiters, job seekers and anyone with an interest in the workplace and HR technology.
Hope you enjoyed reading the Infographic.
Feel free to share your feedback with us at @CareerBuilderIn
Visual and Creative Thinking:What We Learned From Peter Pan and Willy WonkaKelsey Ruger
Presentation on Visual and Creative Thinking. The presentation explores how professional in all fields can apply creative and visual thinking skills to their work as well as why people ignore the talents that made them naturally creative as children. He will discuss the myths that people hold about creativity, why they exist and how you can overcome them.
This 36 pages free eBook is a collection of 17 practical exercises for artists. I have learnt some of them over the years and designed some to fulfil my own needs. I am a painter, so most of these exercises are visual ones. However, many of them do not require specific artistic skills and are suitable for anyone regardless of their age or level of artistic ability.
These exercises are varied and you probably already own most of the required materials.
You can use them as warm-up before you start a new project or as a way to explore new avenues. I also hope teachers will use these exercises in their classes as they are great fun.
The Productivity Secret Of The Best LeadersOfficevibe
Content by Jacob Shriar & Kevin Kruse.
In this Officeviibe presentation, you'll see:
- 3 biggest problems leaders face and what you can do to fix them
- The secret to time management
- Examples from great leaders
- You'll find bonus content
This is my talk for TEDx Youth. It's about the three lies about the teen-age that is preached by our day and age. If you want to watch the video of my talk using this Powerpoint deck, you can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8RyQpPpUA
Hi! We're the creative team behind Hypothesis's reports, presentations, and infographics, and we're sharing out our best tips. Please share with someone you think would enjoy this slideshow.
www.hypothesisgroup.com
www.linkedin.com/companies/hypothesis-group
www.instagram.com/hypothesisgroup
10 Things your Audience Hates About your PresentationStinson
See it with animations! https://vimeo.com/179236019
It’s impossible to win over an audience with a bad presentation. You might have the next big thing, but if your presentation falls flat, then so will your idea. While every audience is different, there are some universal cringe-worthy presentation mistakes that are all too common. Whether you’re an amateur or a seasoned presenter, you should always avoid this list of top 10 things your audience hates. Are you committing any of these 10 fatal presentation sins?
For more presentation help, visit stinsondesign.com/blog
What does the future look like? Is it a dark space where we’re suffering from varying degrees of techamphetamine or are we heading towards a Utopian fantasy of abundance and harmony?
Understanding that our basic human needs and wants barely change, we explore the future state of a range of topics; from our need for physical sustenance through to our age-long fascination of transcending the limitations of our biology.
Looking at the future from a human perspective, our potential for greatness is teetering on a fine line between darkness and hope. We’re banking on the latter.
Discover The Top 10 Types Of Colleagues Around YouAnkur Tandon
The best part being with different colleagues is we learn a lot from them. Good or bad, sooner or later, better or best, we learn something unique from the different personalities working with and around us at our workplace. Read more interesting content, at www.thecareermuse.co.in - We intend to inform and inspire recruiters, job seekers and anyone with an interest in the workplace and HR technology.
Hope you enjoyed reading the Infographic.
Feel free to share your feedback with us at @CareerBuilderIn
Design with IDEO: Designing Sustainable Human Centered Business ModelsPemo Theodore
The document discusses the process of business design and the business model canvas. It emphasizes that design involves considering technical, business, and human factors holistically. An effective business model incorporates perspectives on offerings, operations, economics, marketing, and growth strategy. The business model canvas is a tool to design these perspectives and test assumptions through simple early experiments. The process involves clearly defining customer needs and value propositions, and designing how value will be operationally delivered. It highlights that business design requires continually exploring options, testing assumptions empirically and keeping the model hypothesis simple and elegant.
The Hero's Journey (For movie fans, Lego fans, and presenters!)Dan Roam
Joseph Campbell reviewed hundreds of myths from around the world. He found that they all shared a common underlying story. Let's see if this story holds true in today's blockbuster films. (Hint: it does.) Told with a little help from some little people...
https://www.wrike.com/blog - We surveyed creative teams to discover their biggest challenges and bottlenecks, from conception to completion. And what we discovered was: creative teams have to organize requests, listen to feedback, and seek approvals, all while trying to incorporate their own creative vision, making it difficult to prioritize and meet deadlines. Check out the details in our Slideshare.
17 Ways to Design a Presentation People Want to ViewJim MacLeod
Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations? Me too. Here are 17 tips to help you create a presentation that not only engages the audience, but forces them to remember what you want them to remember.
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
We often spend hours together on stuffs that don’t really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that don’t really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
Laura Mocanu of Elite Vision Coaching has an impressive background as a Marketing Professional in her native Romania. This combined with her own career change and a passion for continuing education sets the tone for her work. A business mentor for the Prince’s Trust and Well Being Officer for NIAMH, her own trajectory is an excellent model for what it takes a client to maximize their potential and illustrative of the "Design Thinking" she teaches.
An audio of this presentation can be found at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6x32tx449nofqi/14%20Laura%20Mocanu.mp3?dl=0
www.evisioncoaching.co.uk
@EVisionCoaching
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving that relies on three main principles: empathy, collaboration, and experimentation. It involves understanding user needs through discovery, developing ideas through interpretation and ideation, and making ideas a reality through prototyping and experimentation. The process is non-linear and involves divergent and convergent thinking. Key tools used in design thinking include observation, interviews, storyboarding, paper prototyping, and other methods of understanding user needs and testing potential solutions.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Design Thinking: The one thing that will transform the way you thinkDigital Surgeons
What's the one thing that will transform the way you think? Design Thinking. The startups, trailblazers, and business mavericks of our world have embraced this process as a means of zeroing in on true human-centered design.
Design Thinking is a methodology for innovators that taps into the two biggest skills needed in today’s modern workplace: critical thinking & problem solving.
Of course, if you ask 100 practitioners to define it, you’ll wind up with 101 definitions.
Pete Sena of Digital Surgeons believes that Design Thinking is a process for solving complex problems through observation and iteration. At its core, he describes it as a vehicle for solving human wants and needs.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. Thomas Dewar was a Scottish whiskey distiller.
Communicating ideas or insights is often the hardest part of the design process. And PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets are limited in their ability to do this. But the communication tools used in Design Thinking—maps, models, sketches, and stories—help to capture and express the information required to form and socialize meaning in a very straightforward, human way.
The Five things that all definitions of Design Thinking have in common:
1. Isolating and reframing the problem focused on the user.
2. Empathy. A design practitioner from IDEO, the popular design and innovation firm strapped a video camera to his head and it was only then that he recognized why the ceiling is such an important factor when working with hospital patients. As a patient you lay in bed and stare at it all day. It’s these little details and true empathy that can only be realized by putting oneself in the user’s shoes.
3. Approach things with an open mind and be willing to collaborate. Creativity with purpose is a team sport.
4. Curiosity. We have to harness our inner 5-year-old here and really be inquisitive explorers. Instead of seeing what would be or what should be, consider what COULD be.
5 - Commitment. Brainstorming is easy. It’s easy to want to start a business or solve a problem. Seeing it into market and making it successful is not for the faint of heart. We’ve all read about big “wins” (multi-billion dollar acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp). What we don’t read about are people like Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, who work for years before becoming industry sensations.
Pete describes what he refers to as the “Wheel of Innovation” as a process that continuously focuses on framing, making, validating, and improving on your concept. Be it as small as a core feature in your product down to the business model and business idea itself.
Design is about form and function, not art.
What are the business benefits for Design Innovation?
IDEO started an idea revolution when they coined this phrase DESIGN THINKING. Organizations ranging from early-stage startups up to Fortune 50 organizations have capitalized on this iterative appr
This document discusses better collaboration between agencies and clients. It notes that historically, agencies did not provide clients with a full understanding of the creative process or ideas, and clients did not know how to properly evaluate work. It advocates that agencies start presentations with the agreed upon creative brief to provide necessary context before presenting ideas. Agencies should tell a story that bridges the brief to the final idea, giving clients a complete understanding. The document also provides models for properly evaluating ideas and ensuring collaborative discussions between agencies and clients.
Ever wondered why some people are so talented creatively while you're not? It's not just a gift this creative lark - it's also a skill, and like any skill it needs time and practice to hone it.
We're influenced by the creativity we see around - but in art, other design work, nature and in our every day belief and attitude to life.
The more your eyes are open - the more you'll see the creativity surrounding you.
Here at Presented, we've put together a small presentation on what we think are the essential tips about how to reveal your inner creativity.
Enjoy!
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like depression and anxiety.
The document discusses various topics related to design through quotes and images. It explores definitions of design provided by designers such as Charles Eames, Milton Glaser, Steve Jobs, and others. Additionally, it examines the design process, expanding role of designers, principles of design thinking, different types of design problems, and more. The full document appears to be a presentation on understanding design at a high level.
Learn more about "The Science of Memorable Presentations" by checking out the Ethos3 blog post on this topic: http://ethr.ee/1ULMrxy
Ethos3 is a presentation design agency with premier PowerPoint and presentation designers. We can create the perfect presentation for you: www.ethos3.com
If you need help creating professional presentations, email us at: info@ethos3.com
24 Awesome Infographic Ideas to Inspire Your Next Beautiful CreationPiktochart
Infographics are awesome, simply because they can capture and hold our attention so well - if done right. The best part is, there are so many great examples out there that we can draw inspiration from. Here are 24 infographic ideas that you can use to create your next beautiful creation.
Design Thinking for Startups - Are You Design Driven?Amir Khella
This document discusses design thinking and how startups can integrate it into their process. It defines design thinking as combining creative and analytical thinking to solve problems. It recommends that startups (1) involve everyone in design thinking, not just designers, (2) deeply understand the problem to be solved, (3) create prototypes and get feedback to refine the solution, and (4) hire "T-shaped" individuals with skills across disciplines and encourage cross-training. The document emphasizes that design thinking is about understanding people and that anyone can be a good design thinker.
7 Ways Soft-Skills Power Organizational PerformanceBambooHR
Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills.
But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees.
In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line.
In this slideshare, you will learn:
• Soft skills: What are they anyway?
• Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires
• What the bottomline results are for soft skills
• How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills
What Modern Art can teach us about CreativityPodium Wisdom
How can masters like Picasso, Monet, Warhol and Pollock inspire you to be more creative? Come in and find out!
If you enjoyed this, connect with me at https://twitter.com/podiumwisdom. I excavate the web for goodies on persuasion, art, presentation, design and more!
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
Design with IDEO: Designing Sustainable Human Centered Business ModelsPemo Theodore
The document discusses the process of business design and the business model canvas. It emphasizes that design involves considering technical, business, and human factors holistically. An effective business model incorporates perspectives on offerings, operations, economics, marketing, and growth strategy. The business model canvas is a tool to design these perspectives and test assumptions through simple early experiments. The process involves clearly defining customer needs and value propositions, and designing how value will be operationally delivered. It highlights that business design requires continually exploring options, testing assumptions empirically and keeping the model hypothesis simple and elegant.
The Hero's Journey (For movie fans, Lego fans, and presenters!)Dan Roam
Joseph Campbell reviewed hundreds of myths from around the world. He found that they all shared a common underlying story. Let's see if this story holds true in today's blockbuster films. (Hint: it does.) Told with a little help from some little people...
https://www.wrike.com/blog - We surveyed creative teams to discover their biggest challenges and bottlenecks, from conception to completion. And what we discovered was: creative teams have to organize requests, listen to feedback, and seek approvals, all while trying to incorporate their own creative vision, making it difficult to prioritize and meet deadlines. Check out the details in our Slideshare.
17 Ways to Design a Presentation People Want to ViewJim MacLeod
Tired of boring PowerPoint presentations? Me too. Here are 17 tips to help you create a presentation that not only engages the audience, but forces them to remember what you want them to remember.
Things That Don't Matter in Your Presentation!Ayman Sadiq
We often spend hours together on stuffs that don’t really matter in your next presentation. You need to unclutter, focus, provide insight and yes, tell a story to convey the big idea. When you stop wasting time on the things that don’t really add any value to you presentation, we finally start adding proper value to the message and objective of your presentation. So here goes a list of things on which you should not even spend a minute. Cheers!
Laura Mocanu of Elite Vision Coaching has an impressive background as a Marketing Professional in her native Romania. This combined with her own career change and a passion for continuing education sets the tone for her work. A business mentor for the Prince’s Trust and Well Being Officer for NIAMH, her own trajectory is an excellent model for what it takes a client to maximize their potential and illustrative of the "Design Thinking" she teaches.
An audio of this presentation can be found at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6x32tx449nofqi/14%20Laura%20Mocanu.mp3?dl=0
www.evisioncoaching.co.uk
@EVisionCoaching
Design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem solving that relies on three main principles: empathy, collaboration, and experimentation. It involves understanding user needs through discovery, developing ideas through interpretation and ideation, and making ideas a reality through prototyping and experimentation. The process is non-linear and involves divergent and convergent thinking. Key tools used in design thinking include observation, interviews, storyboarding, paper prototyping, and other methods of understanding user needs and testing potential solutions.
Karlyn Borysenko and I discuss the elements of putting together an impactful presentation and how to submit them to conferences.
Originally presented at Penn State Web - updated and reshared at HighEdWeb 2016 in Memphis Tennessee.
Design Thinking: The one thing that will transform the way you thinkDigital Surgeons
What's the one thing that will transform the way you think? Design Thinking. The startups, trailblazers, and business mavericks of our world have embraced this process as a means of zeroing in on true human-centered design.
Design Thinking is a methodology for innovators that taps into the two biggest skills needed in today’s modern workplace: critical thinking & problem solving.
Of course, if you ask 100 practitioners to define it, you’ll wind up with 101 definitions.
Pete Sena of Digital Surgeons believes that Design Thinking is a process for solving complex problems through observation and iteration. At its core, he describes it as a vehicle for solving human wants and needs.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open. Thomas Dewar was a Scottish whiskey distiller.
Communicating ideas or insights is often the hardest part of the design process. And PowerPoint and Excel spreadsheets are limited in their ability to do this. But the communication tools used in Design Thinking—maps, models, sketches, and stories—help to capture and express the information required to form and socialize meaning in a very straightforward, human way.
The Five things that all definitions of Design Thinking have in common:
1. Isolating and reframing the problem focused on the user.
2. Empathy. A design practitioner from IDEO, the popular design and innovation firm strapped a video camera to his head and it was only then that he recognized why the ceiling is such an important factor when working with hospital patients. As a patient you lay in bed and stare at it all day. It’s these little details and true empathy that can only be realized by putting oneself in the user’s shoes.
3. Approach things with an open mind and be willing to collaborate. Creativity with purpose is a team sport.
4. Curiosity. We have to harness our inner 5-year-old here and really be inquisitive explorers. Instead of seeing what would be or what should be, consider what COULD be.
5 - Commitment. Brainstorming is easy. It’s easy to want to start a business or solve a problem. Seeing it into market and making it successful is not for the faint of heart. We’ve all read about big “wins” (multi-billion dollar acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp). What we don’t read about are people like Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers, who work for years before becoming industry sensations.
Pete describes what he refers to as the “Wheel of Innovation” as a process that continuously focuses on framing, making, validating, and improving on your concept. Be it as small as a core feature in your product down to the business model and business idea itself.
Design is about form and function, not art.
What are the business benefits for Design Innovation?
IDEO started an idea revolution when they coined this phrase DESIGN THINKING. Organizations ranging from early-stage startups up to Fortune 50 organizations have capitalized on this iterative appr
This document discusses better collaboration between agencies and clients. It notes that historically, agencies did not provide clients with a full understanding of the creative process or ideas, and clients did not know how to properly evaluate work. It advocates that agencies start presentations with the agreed upon creative brief to provide necessary context before presenting ideas. Agencies should tell a story that bridges the brief to the final idea, giving clients a complete understanding. The document also provides models for properly evaluating ideas and ensuring collaborative discussions between agencies and clients.
Ever wondered why some people are so talented creatively while you're not? It's not just a gift this creative lark - it's also a skill, and like any skill it needs time and practice to hone it.
We're influenced by the creativity we see around - but in art, other design work, nature and in our every day belief and attitude to life.
The more your eyes are open - the more you'll see the creativity surrounding you.
Here at Presented, we've put together a small presentation on what we think are the essential tips about how to reveal your inner creativity.
Enjoy!
Pitching Ideas: How to sell your ideas to othersJeroen van Geel
Learn how to convince others of your UX ideas by understanding them.
We are good in designing usable and engaging products and services. We understand the user's needs and have a toolkit with dozens of deliverables. But for some reason it remains difficult to sell an idea or concept to team members, managers or clients. After this session that problem will be solved!
Selling your ideas and convincing others is one of the most undervalued assets in our field. This ranges from convincing a colleague to use a certain design pattern to selling research to your boss and convincing a client to go for your concept. You can come up with the best ideas in the world, but if it is presented in the wrong way these ideas will die a lonely dead. This is sad, because everybody can learn how to bring a message across. The main thing is that you know what to pay attention to.
In this session I will take you on a journey through the world of presenting ideas. We will move through the heads of clients and your colleagues, learn what their thoughts and needs are. We will move to the core of your idea and into the world of psychology.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like depression and anxiety.
The document discusses various topics related to design through quotes and images. It explores definitions of design provided by designers such as Charles Eames, Milton Glaser, Steve Jobs, and others. Additionally, it examines the design process, expanding role of designers, principles of design thinking, different types of design problems, and more. The full document appears to be a presentation on understanding design at a high level.
Learn more about "The Science of Memorable Presentations" by checking out the Ethos3 blog post on this topic: http://ethr.ee/1ULMrxy
Ethos3 is a presentation design agency with premier PowerPoint and presentation designers. We can create the perfect presentation for you: www.ethos3.com
If you need help creating professional presentations, email us at: info@ethos3.com
24 Awesome Infographic Ideas to Inspire Your Next Beautiful CreationPiktochart
Infographics are awesome, simply because they can capture and hold our attention so well - if done right. The best part is, there are so many great examples out there that we can draw inspiration from. Here are 24 infographic ideas that you can use to create your next beautiful creation.
Design Thinking for Startups - Are You Design Driven?Amir Khella
This document discusses design thinking and how startups can integrate it into their process. It defines design thinking as combining creative and analytical thinking to solve problems. It recommends that startups (1) involve everyone in design thinking, not just designers, (2) deeply understand the problem to be solved, (3) create prototypes and get feedback to refine the solution, and (4) hire "T-shaped" individuals with skills across disciplines and encourage cross-training. The document emphasizes that design thinking is about understanding people and that anyone can be a good design thinker.
7 Ways Soft-Skills Power Organizational PerformanceBambooHR
Succeeding in today's increasingly competitive global landscape calls for our organizations to leverage everything they can, and increasingly, that leverage is coming down to your employees' soft skills.
But while it's easy (well, easier) to measure and hire for hard-skills competency, it's very difficult to recognize and hire for soft skills. And once hired, it becomes even more of a task to build these soft skills in our employees.
In this slideshare we'll take a hard look at the soft skills that really enable organizations to succeed. From recruiting to learning and development and performance management to the exit interview, we'll show how soft-skills focus can dramatically impact your company's bottom line.
In this slideshare, you will learn:
• Soft skills: What are they anyway?
• Soft skills and recruiting: The secret to successful hires
• What the bottomline results are for soft skills
• How to teach, measure, and mentor soft skills
What Modern Art can teach us about CreativityPodium Wisdom
How can masters like Picasso, Monet, Warhol and Pollock inspire you to be more creative? Come in and find out!
If you enjoyed this, connect with me at https://twitter.com/podiumwisdom. I excavate the web for goodies on persuasion, art, presentation, design and more!
Despite spending vast amounts of time and money on employee engagement, engagement metrics remain stagnant. What if, instead of obsessing about how to increase employee engagement, how to improve and position your employer brand, or how to fight the war for talent, you instead put serious effort into thinking about how to improve and position your employees?
Humble inquiry the gentle art of asking instead of telling (1)Anil GROVER
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses the power of influence and persuasion. It provides 5 key factors for planning how to influence others: 1) overcome communication blockers, 2) look for win-win opportunities, 3) become a likeable messenger, 4) avoid conflicts and confrontations, and 5) control information. The most important things are getting people to like you and breaking through barriers to listening. Influence comes from competence, not authority. Planning in advance can lead to success when influencing others.
50 mal produktiver - oder warum ich gute Teams brauche und nicht gute Entwick...Mayflower GmbH
Soll ich Entwickler pro Stunde einkaufen? Lohnt es sich für mich, spontan ein Team zu staffen? Brauche ich einen Rockstar-Developer im Team, um die Deadline zu retten?
Woher kommt die Performance von Development-Teams? Ist es wirklich eine magische Eigenschaft von bestimmten Entwicklern, die Produkte erfolgreich macht? Oder kommt herausragende Performance von einer ganz anderer Seite?
Visual tools and innovation games workshop - SPTechCon - Apr 2014Ruven Gotz
Half-day workshop presented by Michelle Caldwell and Ruven Gotz on getting to shared understand and better requirements for your SharePoint projects through the use of Visual Tools (such as mind mapping, wireframing, and card sorting) and Gamestorming (also called Innovation Games)
3D Optical Illusions from Trick Eye Museummaditabalnco
The Trick Eye Museum in South Korea is filled with paintings that appear to come out of their frames, allowing visitors to take goofy pictures with the art. It is a popular spot for those who enjoy posing in front of unusual objects in photos. The museum contains weird and funny illusions that play with people's perception.
Combining Art, Creativity and Industrial Simulations: Game-Based Tools for Le...Karl Kapp
Games are fun, exciting and engaging but do they belong in the classroom? Can games and simulations be artistic, creative and still be educational? There is evidence that students participating in game-based learning experiences have higher declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge and retention of instructional material than those participating in more traditional learning experiences. But, what elements make games and simulations appropriate for learning and how can those elements be integrated into the classroom. This keynote discusses the careful blending of creativity, artistry and technology to create effective game-like simulations for learning.
Infusing Creativity & Art in Service Innovation ProcessesMahmoud ABDELRAHMAN
This document discusses infusing creativity and art into service innovation processes. It covers how service innovation processes have evolved to become more design-inspired at the front end through techniques like service design. It also addresses how service design requires support from corporate culture and provides examples of service design toolboxes and how art forms like theater and music can inspire service design approaches.
This document discusses game-based learning and the e-Adventure platform. It introduces game-based learning and some of its benefits but also open issues. It then describes e-Adventure, an authoring tool that aims to increase educational value and reduce costs of game development while facilitating deployment. Current research with e-Adventure includes integrating it with other e-learning platforms and improving the design process and resources like assets. Accessibility is also being addressed.
Two Romanian preschool teachers, Eliza Cumpănășoiu and Andrada Ciochină, participated in a week-long professional development program in Assen, Netherlands from January 25-31, 2015 focused on using creativity, music, art, ICT, and sport in education. The program involved workshops at local arts and cultural centers on using art and drama in children's activities, GPS adventures around Assen, visits to Montessori and other schools to learn about their approaches, and other activities to experience Assen both during the day and night. The teachers expressed their gratitude to their hosts Cristina and Tim for a wonderful learning experience.
The document outlines 19 ways for academics to get published, including turning academic activities, expertise in other fields, and smaller pieces of larger projects into publications. It recommends collaborating with other authors, having others review work, submitting to journals in priority order, following submission guidelines carefully, and being persistent when receiving rejections. The overall goal is to maximize opportunities for publishing academic work.
Game Based Learning in the ESL ClassroomMark Sturley
The Curfew is an interactive game that challenges students to make choices that affect the storylines. Students work together to solve puzzles, explore environments, and have conversations with characters. They must think critically about their actions and discuss different paths through class discussions. The game covers interdisciplinary themes like security, privacy, and government control while building skills in problem solving, collaboration, communication, and using multimedia technologies.
Creativity and leadership in educational establishmentTatjana Strigalova
The document discusses creativity and leadership in educational institutions. It outlines four pillars of 21st century education according to UNESCO: learning to learn, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be. A creative leader of a school must be an innovator. The role of the school leader is important for the quality of education. A good leader models creativity and uses seven steps: open citizen, knowledge citizen, problem solving citizen, communicative citizen, creative citizen, cooperation citizen, and thinking and active citizen. Research was conducted on educational leadership that found directors need skills in management, strategic planning, and developing teacher competences while dealing with lack of time and stress.
The End of Shareholder Capitalism / The Beginning of Customer CapitalismHelge Tennø
At an increasing rate companies are seeing that they need to figure out ways to put the customer at the center of their attention and decisions.
Through these three sessions I tried to give some tools and ideas, to help participants start digging into ways of finding the right approach for their company.
The document discusses five gaps between companies and their customers as behaviors and expectations change. Customers are more knowledgeable and complete much of their purchase journey online before engaging companies directly. The competition can come from outside traditional categories. Companies often misunderstand what customers are truly paying for with a product or service. To adapt, companies need to change their tools to match how customers now shop, understand the "job" a customer wants done, and rethink what constitutes their product offering.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help enhance one's emotional well-being and mental clarity.
1) The document discusses how to engage makers online through five parts: culture, trends, guidelines, the real/physical world, and passion.
2) It examines how culture has changed with the rise of digital technology and social media, and how makers want more than just transactions - they want community and passion.
3) Seven trends in how people engage online are outlined, along with five guidelines for platforms to follow to connect passionate producers and consumers.
4) The importance of blending the digital and physical world is emphasized to create immersive experiences for both events and ongoing engagement.
5) Makers are driven by passion, not just profits, so platforms need to ignite and accelerate their passions
As software testers, we need to learn a product thoroughly, we need to understand the user interface, the audience, the intended use of a product and we need to know how a product has been built so that we can test and investigate the robustness and readiness of a product. So we ask lots of questions. We ask designers, developers, product owners and many other people questions throughout our day and yet, rarely do we stop to recognize the skill of asking questions, let alone focus on how we might improve our approach to asking questions. Listen to the webinar as Karen Johnson talks about the art of asking questions. At the end of the session, you can ask her questions too.
As technology becomes invisible, the opportunity for companies to connect with participants arises from its understanding of its fundamental ability to ad value to situations in a persons life.
Ai Workshop Slides Used By John Loty In 2008.John Loty
These slides together with a workbook were used in a 2 day Introductory Workshop on Appreciative Inquiry and how AI is being used for change management and organisational development.
Mindset_ Changing The Way You Think To Fulfill Your Potential, Updated Editio...EarleFernandez
Carol Dweck is a leading researcher in psychology who studies personality, social psychology, and developmental psychology. Her work shows that people can hold one of two mindsets: a fixed mindset, where they believe their qualities are carved in stone, or a growth mindset, where they believe their qualities can be developed through effort. Which mindset people hold has profound effects on their motivation and how they approach challenges. Dweck's research with children who enjoyed challenges changed her view that failure meant lack of ability, and instead showed the power of believing that ability can be cultivated through learning.
Mindset updated edition changing the way you think to fulfil your potential...EricWalter24
Dweck explains why it's not just our abilities and talent that bring us success-but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn't foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals-personal and professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area.
Ethics issues for administrators power point session #8.bb.fa17bruce.miller
I can summarize a framework of making difficult decisions.
I can apply resolution principles that validate all members of our learning community.
I understand the influence of democracy, community, and educational professionalism in the role of learning for students.
Ethical issues for Administrators: Culture Values & Leadershipbrucemiller9901
I understand what defines the culture of my school.
I understand how values and morals affect the culture of my school.
I understand how values and morals affect leadership.
Ethics issues for administrators power point session #8brucemiller9901
The document discusses several key topics:
1) It examines how educational opportunities should allow students to pursue their own identities and conceptions of what is good for them.
2) It emphasizes the importance of open dialogue and debate, as well as recognizing there may be multiple truths.
3) It argues that educational opportunities should both celebrate shared identities but also acknowledge and respect differences among students.
Ethical issues for administrators power point session 2.2018.bbbrucemiller9901
I understand what defines the culture of my school.
I understand how values and morals affect the culture of my school.
I understand how values and morals affect leadership.
If you're ready to create radical positive lasting change in your life, or you're looking for strategies to adapt to a rapidly changing world, this book is for you.
The document describes a fictional scenario in the year 2058 where an alien spacecraft crashes on Earth and is recovered by scientists. Upon cracking encrypted metal databases found on the spacecraft, the scientists discover blueprints containing technology that is far more advanced than anything on Earth, including designs for invisibility cloaks, anti-gravity machines, and warp drive spaceships. The discovery of this alien technology has the potential to forever change human civilization and advancement.
Views about human thinking and knowledge powers - for betterment of individuals first and of course for the organzation, family and society in the end. A deeper version will follow soon. See notes on the blog with images
The document discusses several concepts related to learning and development, including spiral dynamics, brain-based learning, multiple intelligences, and overcoming fear of change. It encourages setting goals and focusing on strengths to continuously learn and grow on personal and professional levels over the next few months.
This document provides a 3-page summary of a book titled "A Troubled Mind" by Thato Moruti. It begins with an introduction discussing how the face can hide a person's true identity and deceive others. Societies often close doors on certain groups like the disabled, sex workers, and the unemployed. During teenage years, one can face rejections, disappointments, and have to account for actions. The summary then provides a dedication section and table of contents for the book, outlining chapters on childhood, thoughts, struggles, perseverance, and new beginnings. It concludes with short biographies of the author and acknowledgments.
CONTENTS
Cover Page
Title Page
Introduction
1. HE MINDSETSWhy Do People Differ?What Does All This Mean for You? The Two
MindsetsA View from the Two MindsetsSo, What’s New?Self-Insight: Who Has Accurate Views
of Their Assets and Limitations?What’s in Store
2. NSIDE THE MINDSETSIs Success About Learning—Or Proving You’re
Smart?Mindsets Change the Meaning of FailureMindsets Change the Meaning of
EffortQuestions and Answers
3. HE TRUTH ABOUT ABILITY AND ACCOMPLISHMENT Mindset and School
AchievementIs Artistic Ability a Gift?The Danger of Praise and Positive LabelsNegative Labels
and How They Work
4. PORTS: THE MINDSET OF A CHAMPION The Idea of the
Natural“Character”What Is Success?What Is Failure?Taking Charge of SuccessWhat Does It
Mean to Be a Star?Hearing the Mindsets
5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIPEnron and the Talent
MindsetOrganizations That GrowA Study of Mindset and Management DecisionsLeadership and
the Fixed MindsetFixed-Mindset Leaders in ActionGrowth-Mindset Leaders in ActionA Study of
Group ProcessesGroupthink Versus We ThinkAre Leaders Born or Made?
6. RELATIONSHIPS: MINDSETS IN LOVE (OR NOT) Relationships Are
DifferentMindsets Falling in LoveThe Partner as EnemyCompetition: Who’s the
Greatest?Developing in RelationshipsFriendshipShynessBullies and Victims: Revenge Revisited
7. PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND COACHES: WHERE DO MINDSETS COME
FROM?Parents (and Teachers): Messages About Success and FailureTeachers (and Parents):
What Makes a Great Teacher (or Parent)?Coaches: Winning Through MindsetOur Legacy
8. CHANGING MINDSETS: A WORKSHOP The Nature of ChangeThe Mindset
LecturesA Mindset WorkshopBrainologyMore About ChangeTaking the First Step: A Workshop
for YouPeople Who Don’t Want to ChangeChanging Your Child’s MindsetMindset and
WillpowerMaintaining ChangeThe Road Ahead
NotesRecommended BooksAbout the AuthorCopyright
INTRODUCTION
One day, my students sat me down and ordered me to write this book. They wanted
people to be able to use our work to make their lives better. It was something I’d wanted to do
for a long time, but it became my number one priority.
My work is part of a tradition in psychology that shows the power of people’s beliefs.
These may be beliefs we’re aware of or unaware of, but they strongly affect what we want and
whether we succeed in getting it. This tradition also shows how changing people’s beliefs—even
the simplest beliefs—can have profound effects.
In this book, you’ll learn how a simple belief about yourself—a belief we discovered in
our research—guides a large part of your life. In fact, it permeates every part of your life. Much
of what you think of as your personality actually grows out of this “mindset.” Much of what may
be preventing you from fulfilling your potential grows out of it.
No book has ever explained this mindset and shown people how to make use of it in their
lives. You’ll suddenly understand the gre.
Ethical issues for administrators power point session 3 su2017bruce.miller
The document discusses several topics including:
1. The importance of understanding different perspectives and considering opposing opinions.
2. Defining principles of ends-based, care-based, and rule-based thinking and applying them to ethical dilemmas.
3. Questions around regulating beliefs and actions that do not harm others.
4. John Stuart Mill's arguments for freedom of expression and debate as conditions for rational decision making.
What Is A Process Analysis Essay. Process ASandra Long
The artwork of William Hogarth satirized 18th century English society through realistic depictions of various social classes. His paintings and engravings showed the fashions and lifestyles of the time, sometimes exaggerating flaws for comedic or critical effect. No one was spared from his caricatures, from nobility to commoners. Hogarth used his art to comment on social and political issues, supporting acts like the 1751 Gin Act through prints like Beer Street and Gin Lane that depicted the dangers of gin drinking. Overall, his work provides insight into the diverse culture and issues of 18th century England through sharp observational satire.
The passage discusses the rise of the generalist student. A generalist student is competent in several different fields or activities. The key cultural attributes for innovation that a generalist student possesses are questioning, a culture of innovation, iteration, connecting the dots, and curiosity. A generalist student approaches challenges with an open mind, challenges people to think differently, complements specialists, and practices empathy as the master of their trade.
The document provides information about a critical thinking course taught by Molly Dwyer, who has a PhD in philosophy and religion and has taught English composition for over 15 years. The main text for the course is a website that contains all course materials. The document discusses concepts like world views, belief systems, paradigms, perception, the biology of the mind, and how critical thinking can help students think consciously and make meaningful choices.
This document provides an overview of narrative therapy techniques for addressing addiction issues. It discusses externalizing problems to give clients a different perspective, deconstructing dominant problem-saturated stories through questioning, and identifying alternative storylines and exceptions. The goal is to separate a client's identity from the problem and view it as external to encourage new narratives. Re-authoring involves linking life events differently according to alternative themes and hopes rather than the problem. Re-membering conversations invite clients to revise which people and experiences are important memberships in their life stories.
Dissertation Rationale Sample TelegraphAshley Smith
The document provides instructions for requesting and receiving writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment. 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction, with a full refund option for plagiarized work. The process aims to match clients with qualified writers and provide original, high-quality content through revisions.
Is your loved one beginning to show signs of difficulty in accomplishing their activities of daily living? This presentation offers suggestions on how to approach this delicate subject.
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Designing food forests: fruit & nut tree guild handoutJoyce Hostyn
Looking for palettes for groups of species that work together interdependently to inspire your design of guilds (plant communities) for a food forest?
Featured guilds:
- eat your ornamentals
- native bounty
- urban orchard (apple & pear)
- nature's pharmacy
- medieval potager
- asian cooking herbal
- edible fence
- native nuts (black walnut, butternut, shagbark or shellbark hickory, chestnut or oak)
In Permaculture: A Designers Manual Bill Mollison says that "We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners of ancient India have names for such guilds, or beings made up (as we are) of two or more species forming one organism. Most of nature is composed of groups of species working interdependently."
Guilding is a permaculture technique that learns from and works with the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system.
Unlike monocultures – a field of corn, a traditional apple orchard or a grass lawn – guilds are polycultures of diverse plants, insects and animals that support each other in a mini ecosystem. They’re designed around a primary food producing species (such as an apple tree) along with diverse, multi-functional support species to maximize the health and productivity of the guild. They produce a wide variety of useful products such as food, medicine, fibre, wood and dye.
By considering the whole plant community, – placing plants carefully in relation to each other in a way that facilitates interconnection and support rather than competition (for example, plants with different root systems such as shallow vs tap roots)
- Nitrogen fixing plants, along with species that supply phosphorus, potassium, calcium and other minerals, fertilize food producing plants
- Soil food web recycles plant debris to build healthy, moisture retentive soil
- Insectary plants attract beneficial predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings and predatory wasps as well as pollinators such as native bees that increase fruit and vegetable yield
- Strongly aromatic plants such as oregano, garlic, thyme and yarrow confuse pests, preventing them from discovering the plants they like to eat
- Diversity attracts a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, insects and birds to increase system health
- Dense layer of herbaceous and groundcover plants suppress unwanted species and protect the soil
Little Forests as Nature-Based Climate Solutions - Nature CanadaJoyce Hostyn
Little Forests are collaborations between plants, soil, organisms, land, climate, geology, & people. Disturbed land naturally returns to forest in 150 to 200 years. Because of the urgency of climate change, Dr. Akira Miyawaki designed a method that squeezes those 150 years into a 20-30 years.
What might a place where we park our car for an hour become?
What might a path, road, or active transport route become?
What might a parking lot become?
What might an apartment building become?
What might a school become?
What might a median become?
What might a front yard become?
What might our cities become?
Dr. Akira Miyawaki says that "Real forests made up of trees native to the area are three-dimensional, multi-layered communities having 30x the surface area of greenery of single-layered lawns, and have more than 30x the ability to protect against natural disasters and to conserve the environment."
Each of us is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration. Each little forest is a node in a mycelial network of regeneration.
Presented during "Learn How to Implement Nature Based Climate Solutions in your community" hosted by Nature Canada.
"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
"In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used."
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
Can Kingston become a City in a Forest?Joyce Hostyn
Imagine it’s 2030. Every child can look out their window and see trees (and the many creatures these trees support). On even the hottest days they can walk or bike along a tree-lined street to play, visit birds or hug a tree in a nearby forest. 3-30-300 builds climate resilience for extreme heat events.
No Mow May: Support Multispecies ResurgenceJoyce Hostyn
This document promotes the idea of "No Mow May" and rewilding lawns to support biodiversity. It provides reasons for allowing lawns to grow wild in May such as providing food and habitat for insects, birds, and other wildlife. Not mowing allows native plants to grow and flowers to bloom, attracting more species. Monocultures in lawns are criticized for lacking diversity and attracting pests, while polycultures are praised for their resilience. Quotes from various sources further explain the benefits of natural landscapes and meadows over conventional lawns in terms of supporting the web of life.
In our yards, our parks and along our streets we plant lines of lonely trees. But a tree is not a forest. Lonely trees are severed from their ecological communities—at the mercy of wind, weather and disease. Rewilding with Little Forests re-enchants our yards and our city with biodiversity... what Robert MacFarlane calls “the wondrous, teeming, calamitously threatened variety & variability of life on Earth, sometimes measured by species richness.”
Re-enchanting our gardens and our citiesJoyce Hostyn
How, by rewilding, might we invite more wonder into our gardens? Our gardens are shared spaces, communities of beings. Who visits? Who doesn't? Why? What moments invite enchantment and wonder? This winter, start your rewilding journey by discovering the stories of the beings with whom you share your garden. We'll explore how rewilding might change who we become as gardeners.
Our beautiful wild pollinators need help! Support bees, butterflies and other pollinators by converting your lawn into a meadowscape or let your lawn grow wild!
Wildscaping: break up with your lawn, invite in the wild Joyce Hostyn
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our approach to gardening, our relationship with plants and how we belong to place. Our weather is becoming more variable with wetter springs, drier summers, colder winters and more extreme storms. Let’s adapt our gardening style for a changing climate, drawing inspiration from local landscapes and indigenous flora to create sustainable, resilient gardens that welcome wild beings into our cities.
Rip out your lawn and replace it with a food forest. How to design a nut or fruit tree guild. Includes planting palettes for a black walnut guild, native plant guild, asian inspired guild, medicinal guild, medieval guild, ornamental guild, apple guild, pear guild and apple guilds.
Layering wildscapes: designing with plant communitiesJoyce Hostyn
When designing wildscapes, you need to think like a walnut, see like a squirrel, be like a bee and forage like a bird. Wildscapes replicate the layered structure of wild ecosystems to maximize biodiversity, habitat, resilience & beauty.
We now know that our century long quest for the perfect lawn is contributing to our climate emergency. It's time to reimagine curb appeal. Natural climate solutions offer immense possibility for helping Kingston achieve its strategic goals. Presentation to Kingston's EITP Committee.
Forest this being is: becoming forest stewards in a changing climateJoyce Hostyn
As gardeners, we've been colonized. We plant lonely trees, pines in lines and cookie cutter landscapes. How can we rewild ourselves and our approach to gardening? How can we learn to see forests as beings? How can we become forest stewards in a time of climate change?
how to design an edible landscape: unleash your inner gardenerJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a tiny yard or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too! Edible landscapes filled with trees, shrubs, berries and perennial vegetables are a beautiful, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, increasing biodiversity, and attracting birds.
How to design a beautiful edible forest gardenJoyce Hostyn
Whether you have a small space or a large lot, you can have a beautiful garden and eat it too. Edible forest gardens mimic natural forests, but edibles are prioritized in plant selection. They're a natural, sustainable method of growing food for yourself, providing a habitat for wildlife and beautifying your home.
How to design a beautiful garden that attracts birds Joyce Hostyn
“Birds are good ecological indicators. If you have a diverse native bird population, it’s a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy.” Convert your lawn to a beautiful, bird friendly garden. Biodiverse gardens provide the food niches, nesting sites, shelter, water, and safety that our native birds (and insects) need.
Design for dreams not needs: who do you want your customers to become?Joyce Hostyn
Who do you want your customer to become? Who do you want your coworkers, your organization, your employees, your children, your community, your country, the world to become? What gifts do you have? What gifts do they (those you are designing for) have? To answer these questions well is to discover your own dream. To answer these questions well is to uncover the dreams of those you are designing for.
Who do I want you to become? Someone who dreams beautiful dreams. Someone who helps others dream beautiful dreams. Someone who designs for dreams.
For it is through beautiful dreams that we will create more beautiful organizations, communities, and the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.
Can we design organizations for beauty?Joyce Hostyn
The future is ours to imagine, design and create. And if we’re dreaming the future into being, why not dream of a future where business is beautiful. Where business delivers the promise of happiness. Where business is an incredible force for positive change in the world.
Employee Communities: Community Centric ChangeJoyce Hostyn
Customer Experience starts with the employee experience, but changing the employee experience can be very difficult. Most change methods are still based on an outdated top-down rational view of organizational change. How can we rewire organizational DNA to create great customer experiences? How can we shift the hearts, minds and behaviors of every employee? These are the questions we're wresting with as we rethink our approach to employee experience. Our new strategy is centered on an employee community of peers that we are promoting through internal content marketing. It might be working. Presented at CXPA Members Insight Exchange.
Digital literacy - a new language for disruptionJoyce Hostyn
The document discusses the concept of digital literacy and how it is becoming increasingly important. It notes that 80% of CIOs surveyed felt that their top management was not fully digitally literate. It also contains quotes about how the illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Overall, the document emphasizes that digital literacy and the ability to adapt to changes in digital technology will be crucial for individuals, organizations and societies going forward.
Procrastination is a common challenge that many individuals face when it comes to completing tasks and achieving goals. It can hinder productivity and lead to feelings of stress and frustration.
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As we navigate through the ebbs and flows of life, it is natural to experience moments of low motivation and dwindling passion for our goals.
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You may be stressed about revealing your cancer diagnosis to your child or children.
Children love stories and these often provide parents with a means of broaching tricky subjects and so the ‘The Secret Warrior’ book was especially written for CANSA TLC, by creative writer and social worker, Sally Ann Carter.
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Inspire: Igniting the Spark of Human Potential
Inspiration is the force that propels individuals from ordinary to extraordinary. It transforms ideas into innovations, dreams into realities, and individuals into icons. This article delves into the multifaceted nature of inspiration, exploring its sources such as nature, art, personal experiences, and the achievements of others, and its profound impact on personal growth, societal progress, and cultural evolution. Through the lens of historical figures and timeless quotes, we uncover how inspiration fuels creativity, drives societal change, and ignites the spark of human potential.
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13. only to die afraid, hooked up to
machines, surrounded by strangers
14.
15. Western philosophy. Rational economics.
Survival of the fittest. Industrialism. 20th
century management theory. Medicalization
of health. Denial of death.
answer
each of these is an
20. The consumer economy is sustained by
providing answers.The answer always has a
system quality, because it offers
predictability.Anytime you speak of
answers, you are making a false promise.
The more important dimensions of being
human have no clear answer.
~Peter Block
21. ANSWERS
… stifle creativity
… stop thinking in its tracks
… are static and smug
… are endings
… are full of problems
… shut down conversation
… box in space
… freeze history
… stop time
22. The most interesting thing you can
do in life is really the most natural
thing to do:
call into question the
rules of the game.
~Alan Watts
25. Why not think of any organization
you're a part of as a unique
medium in which you have the
opportunity to create?
My job was to be loyally
subversive.
~The Creative Paradox, Orbiting the Giant Hairball
27. Great artists
do not only break the
rules; they redefine them.
~John Kay, Obliquity
28. I asked the rhetorical question Who is man, the
artist? and answered it by saying: he is the
unspoiled core of everyman, before he is
choked by schooling, training, conditioning until
the artist within shrivels up and is forgotten.
~Frederick Franck, Zen of Seeing
31. The lone, discerning voice has an
effect utterly disproportionate to
its singularity…
Asked at the right time, a
searching question can
make a fortress collapse.
~John O’Donohue
32. Places to intervene in a system
The power to transcend paradigms.
The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays,
parameters — arises.
The goals of the system
The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure.
The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints)
The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints)
The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information)
The gain around driving positive feedback loops
The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct
against.
The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change.
The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age
structures)
The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards
Donella Meadows
33. individuals
will increasingly reshape institutions rather
than vice versa. […] They will become the
catalysts for much broader changes playing
out across the business and social
landscape.
~Power of Pull
34. The power to transcend paradigms.
The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, structure, rules, delays,
parameters — arises.
The goals of the system
The power to add, change, evolve, or self-organize system structure.
The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints)
The rules of the system (such as incentives, punishments, constraints)
The structure of information flows (who does and does not have access to information)
The gain around driving positive feedback loops
The strength of negative feedback loops, relative to the impacts they are trying to correct
against.
The lengths of delays, relative to the rate of system change.
The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age
structures)
The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards
questions
38. There are pivotal moments in our lives;
moments that can change our direction, our
aspirations, our hearts and minds; even our
spirits and who we construe ourselves to be.
~Andrew Henon
39. my life story timeline
low points
high points
Timeline: life’s pivotal moments
Map pivotal moments – turning points – when you stepped up to a challenge (or failed to), felt
most alive, were deeply inspired, terribly crushed.
40. Timeline: life’s pivotal moments
pivotal moment
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
choice
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
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outcome
1
2
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5
6
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What details do you remember? What did it feel like? Why is it important? How did it change
you? Who might you tell the story to? What about it would move them?
42. mother dying in a broken system
where we are in denial of death
and most people die in hospital
despite wanting to die at home
flew to Edmonton for 6 weeks to
help my mom to die well at home
Experienced both the fear and
the beauty of dying process.
living each day differently,
working towards effecting change
in the death experience.
pivotal moment choice outcome
44. We can only connect
the dots that we collect,
which makes everything
you write about you. …
Your connections are the
thread that you weave into
the cloth that becomes
the story that
only you can tell.
~Amanda Palmer
45. If your timeline is short of dots…
go boldly forth and start collecting!
46. 100 questions
Quickly write 100 questions that feel significant to you. Do the entire list in one sitting.
Without judging, read through and highlight themes that emerge.
Choose the 10 that feel the most
significant. Rank from 1-10.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Michael Gelb,Think Like DaVinci
47. Michael Gelb’s 10 questions
When am I most naturally myself - what people, places, activities and circumstances allow me to be most fully
myself?
What is one thing I could stop doing? Start doing? Do differently today that would most improve the quality of my
life?
What is my greatest talent?
How can I get paid for doing what I love?
Who are my most inspiring role models and why?
How can I best serve others?
What is my heart's deepest desire?
How am I perceived by: my closest friends? my worst enemy? my boss? my spouse/partner? children? co-workers?
What are the blessings in my life?
What legacy would I like to leave behind?
49. So many of us have struggled
all our adult lives to improve
the world and in so doing the
lives of today’s children,
tomorrow’s adults.To do so
we have drawn heavily on
external sources of
knowledge, insight and
reliable generalisation, all too
often, ignoring the
authenticity and richness of
our own experience and
resulting ‘knowing’.Yet, in our
practice, again and again,
theories have been tried,
tested, refined and re-
hypothesised.Yes, we embody
the totality of years of
enquiry, study, reflective
practice and knowledge
chiselled into every aspect of
our beings.
~Andrew Henon,Teacher
50. Living Legacy: stories creating futures
What are your deepest dreams and hopes for making a
difference?
Imagine your audience.Who would you like to receive
this document?
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
What are the virtues you value most?
Now write your legacy letter
What are your gifts? Compliments people often give
you?
Whose lives have you impacted? People whose gifts you
helped to unleash?
51. Ask someone you trust who knows you well
What is the story I’m telling?
52. Randy Pausch’s Living Legacy:The Last Lecture
https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo
The key question
to keep asking is:
Are you spending
your time on the
right things? Because
time is all you have.
~Randy Pausch
53. Obituary: what if you wrote your own?
Write your obituary based on how you are living your
life right now, assuming no risk.
Answer the question “What’s worth doing even if I fail?”
What do you want people to remember or do as a
result of your life story? Write a second obituary
assuming you are living that life.
54. One day I sat down and wrote
two versions of my obituary.The first
was the one that I wanted to have. I thought
of the obituaries that I enjoyed reading, the
people that I admired.They were the
adventurers and risk-takers… They lived life
with a greediness for new experiences, and
gumption, and a gung-ho attitude that defied
the attempts of naysayers and nigglers to
pigeonhole them or put them down.These
people really knew how to live.The second
version was the obituary that I was heading
for – a conventional, ordinary life – pleasant
and with its moments of excitement, but
always within the
safe confines of normality.
55. I want to tell you
three stories from
my life. No big deal.
Just three stories.
~Steve Jobs
56. Commencement Speech
List titles of three stories that define your past self, present self, and then stories you hope to
tell 10 years from now. Look for themes in your past and present self to inspire stories that
you think you might want to write for the future.
1 1
2 2
3 3
1
2
3
stories about your past self stories about your present self stories about your future self
Power of Story in Business Workbook, Jennifer Aaker
57. Commencement Speech
Now imagine yourself 10 years in the future.You just received an invitation to give a
commencement speech. Share a story about your life, something that would inspire the
graduates.
58. The greatness of a great question is that it can survive
any and all answering, and still be left standing after the
debates and harangues and rationalist assaults have
bashed away
at it.
~Steven Jenkinson
59. So here’s the thing about changing the world. It turns out
that’s not even the question, because you don’t have a
choice. You are going to change the world, because
that is actually what the world is. You do not pass
through this life, it passes through you.You experience it,
you interpret it, you act, and then it is different.That
happens constantly.
You are changing
the world.
~Joss Whedon
60. [Creativity] endeavors to bring some of our hidden life to expression in order that
we might come to see who we are.When we are creative, we help the unknown to
become known, the visible to be seen and the rich darkness within us to become
illuminated. … Each of us is emerging in every moment.When we discover our
creativity, we begin to attend to this constant emergence of who we are... Beneath
that white page, in the stillness, a harvest of untouched possibility waits.
~John O’Donohue
64. a woman with
courage and a
dream, but
little money
how might we
support her
journey
towards
realizing her
dreams?
65. old age as a
condition
how might we
care for them
keep them
safe
66. a man in
yearning to
contribute his
life learnings in
his final stage
of life
how might
they continue
to contribute
their gifts in
the last stage
of their life?
75. The intellect is a great danger to creativity … because you begin to rationalize
and make up reasons for things, instead of staying with your own basic truth
— who you are, what you are, what you want to be. I’ve had a sign over my
typewriter for over 25 years now, which reads “Don’t think!” You must
never think at the typewriter — you must feel… The worst thing you do
when you think is lie — you can make up reasons that are not true for the
things that you did, and what you’re trying to do as a creative person is
surprise yourself — find out who you really are, and try not to lie, try to tell
the truth all the time.And the only way to do this is by being very active and
very emotional, and get it out of yourself — making things that you hate and
things that you love…
~Ray Bradbury
79. Curiosity might be
pictured as being made
up of chains of small
questions extending
outwards, sometimes
over huge distances,
from a central hub
composed of a few
blunt, large questions.
~Alain de Botton
80. Observe for a day
Choose a theme for the day (one of your questions or
anything of interest) and record observations in your
notebook.Aim for accurate, simple observations.Write.
Sketch. Speculation, opinion, and theory are also ok.
81. Contemplate a question
Find a quite place to sit. Hang your question in front of you. Set a
timer for 10 minutes. Relax, breath deeply, and sit with your question.
If your mind wanders, bring it back by reading the question again, out
loud.Try doing this before going to sleep and again when you wake up.
82. Explore using stream of consciousness
Set a timer for between 10 minutes and an hour. Choose any question and
write. Don’t judge, censor, hesitate. Keep your pen moving until the time is
up.Take a break. Highlight the words or phrases that speak to you most
strongly. Look for themes and more questions. Repeat.
83. 83
Make a collage (team)
Send out your team to investigate the question space. Interview observe
people. Read widely and collect inspiration. Create colleges of learnings,
then present and discuss. Make sense as a collective of all you’ve learned.
What assumptions? What’s the story? What frame will you place around
your question? How will you reword it? What will you include in the frame?
What will you exclude? What new words or phrases will you use to capture
the possibility space? For words frames are powerful weapons.
91. What if we
mentored employees
in designing the
story of their life’s
work?
How can we increase
employee engagement?
How might we
design meetings as
experiences that
bring our core
values to life?
What if we design the employee
experience?
92. As soon as we label something, we put
it in a box and move it to another part
of our brain.We stop seeing it as it
really is.
~Marty Neumeier
different box
thinking
different
bigger box
smaller
different
box
99. We live in the world our
questions create.
~David Cooperrider
100. Live your
questions now,
and perhaps even
without knowing
it, you will live
along some
distant day into
your answers.
~Rilke
101. …our future will come from the individual
imagination in conversation with all other
individual imaginations.A mobilization of
something that exists at the edges between
things.A sea formed not from a general’s
command but from the flow and turn of a
thousand creative conversational
elements.
~David Whyte
a thousand questions