Creativity Lessons From Jim Henson: Start Playing! Creativity Lessons From Jim Henson...humor helps Image: Canva.com There are so many Creativity Lessons from Jim Henson. He was a genius: innovative, playful, whimsical, funny, driven. I LOVED The Muppet Show growing up. 7PM PST Sunday nights, [...]
Adaptability Mindset Lessons from improv comedy to change your life and leadership Adaptability Mindset Through Improv Comedy Adaptability Mindset is a growth mindset. Sure, risk-taking can be scary. It doesn't have to be. And we need risk-taking for creativity and innovation and for personal as [...]
Your Team Is An Improv Group Your team IS an improv group. Collaboration Is What High-Performing Teams Do Every team in a business setting is an improv group. I don't care what kind of business you are in or work for - every business [...]
Friday the 29th is National Fun at Work Day! Some people think play is frivolous. It isn't. And it's time to change the narrative on play. Play is good for our mental well-being, happiness and for #innovation in #marketing, #products, across the company and your life. It's how you play [...]
Anger is Story and Innovative Fuel: Why Conflict Powers Incredible Storytelling I spoke to a group of entrepreneurs recently about storytelling and conflict. Being an entrepreneur is hard - just like being an executive in a big company: both can be isolating. Many of these entrepreneurs expressed frustration, [...]
Why Employees Won't Innovate There are three big reasons why employees won't innovate: trust; lack of a compelling story; and lack of process. I discuss all of those in more detail in this video. To get notified when I go live, sign up here! To see more about [...]
Creativity in Business In this episode of #yesandbrand, my FB #livestream, I chat about creativity in business with my guest, Carla Johnson. Creativity is critical for business - for innovation and differentiation. So why do businesses get stuck, how can they get unstuck and how do we move [...]
First, Embrace the Suck. Then Pull Out of It. Embrace the Suck. Dealing with the creative ups and downs is hard. Really hard. Sometimes we feel uncertain and uncomfortable because creativity can be messy - it gets harder before it gets better. I call this period of discomfort [...]
Using Improv to Generate Awesome New Content, Marketing and Product Ideas Join me for this Blab on December 2nd where we will be innovating new ideas LIVE! It's hard to stand out in a noisy world. To do that you need to think differently. We know improv can [...]
Note: This is an updated post from last year. The stories employees and executives tell internally are leading indicators of organizational health and marketplace effectiveness – more so than the marketing stories we tell externally. There is no sound wall between external and internal worlds. That means before [...]
