Posts tagged ‘Creativity’

Life is good.  So is work…mostly.  Most people will agree that working is good for you.   Work- for most people- means much more than our daily bread.   But even for people who absolutely LOVE their job, there will be portions of the job that are just not so great.   Studies show that for the average worker, the following statistics apply:

  • 30% of our job duties: we very much enjoy
  • 40% of our job duties:  are “ok”
  • 30% of our job duties:  are our Dirty Thirty

The “Dirty Thirty” are the parts of our job…and every job has them… that we don’t enjoy doing and the reasons for this are many. Continue reading ‘Do You Know Your Dirty Thirty?’ »

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Posted by Inneractive Consulting Insights on February 16, 2011 at 1:40 am under Productivity.
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Reminder… It’s a new year. 2011 is here for 12 months and this is when individuals and companies typically look at what they want to do new and/or differently for the upcoming 12 months.

So, how do we decide if we are going to innovate, invent, or optimize?   Or maybe we will do all three! Continue reading ‘Innovation, Invention, or Optimization?’ »

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Posted by Inneractive Consulting Insights on January 11, 2011 at 12:56 am under Innovation.
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or How to Focus While Letting Your Mind Wander

All you would-be writers out there!   As you begin writing you will have times when you have the perfect word or idea in your head but your hands just will not type them for you.  What’s a writer to do?

I write business blogs.  Most weeks I write between 5 and 10 blogs.  Most of the time my fingers hum along the laptop much as a pianist plays a concerto.  Sometimes, though, the right word does not come.  It is usually a familiar word and is on the tip of my mind (or fingertips), but the word eludes me. Continue reading ‘The Red Fire Hydrant …’ »

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Posted by Inneractive Consulting Insights on September 15, 2010 at 12:47 am under High Performance Factors.
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Following along our previous blog on Self-Actualization, Abraham Maslow outlined other characteristics of a self-actualized person:

  • The mystic experience- being in tune or at “one” with the world.  Can literally feel as if they are floating.
  • Feelings of “togetherness”- awareness and sensitivity to all mankind
  • Deep interpersonal relationships- profound and deep relationships with others
  • Insightful discrimination between means and ends- strong sense of right and wrong; good and bad.  Will not cross the line.
  • Philosophical sense of humor- enjoy humor; good natured yet serious
  • Creativity- highly creative and expressed in many dimensions (writing, speaking, painting, music, cooking, etc)
  • Transcendent of cultures- maintains a strong individuality, ability to objectively evaluate culture and relativity to its importance
  • Tolerant of imperfections- does not profess to be right or perfect.  Always willing to grow and learn.  Tolerant of the imperfection of others.

According to Dr. Kurt Goldstein, psychologist: Self-Actualization is a uniquely human need that separates humans from all other animals.

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Posted by Inneractive Consulting Insights on August 30, 2010 at 12:14 am under Leadership.
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What the heck is the Hawthorne Effect?   I’m so glad you asked!

To sum it up in only a few words, the Hawthorne Effect describes the results you receive when you give people attention.  The simple act of showing people that you care about them inevitably spurs them to better job performance.

The Hawthorne Effect was discovered by researchers at Harvard who were studying the relationship between worker productivity and work environment.  The experiments were conducted at the Hawthorne Works plant of Western Electric in the 1920s and 30s.   The original study was conducted in order to determine if increasing or decreasing the amount of light workers received would increase or decrease worker productivity. Continue reading ‘The Hawthorne Effect’ »

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Posted by Inneractive Consulting Insights on June 21, 2010 at 12:20 am under Leadership.
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Creativity is the eighth C in the twelve part series of the C’s of Success.

Creativity can be considered the catalyst for competitive advantage at both the individual and organizational levels of performance. Creativity can separate individuals and make one unique or seen to be unique in the eyes of others. This perception is sometimes the only thing that separates the individual from others in the eyes of customers, managers and peers.

What is Creativity?

Wikipedia defines Creativity as…

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new.

This is about as accurate as I’ve seen regarding the pure definition of creativity. While this definition is universal in nature, and research studies have shown that all individuals possessed high levels of creativity during their youth – yet, only a small percentage of people consider themselves as creative or possessing creative skills. Continue reading ‘Success and Creativity’ »

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Posted by Voss Graham on September 25, 2009 at 6:12 am under Organizational Development, Personal Development.
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I got a couple of calls about “what is the Twenty Idea Method?” So, I will share this great creativity tool. Anyone can use it – kids to adults, employees to executives, men or women – it is a universal creativity technique.

First, you get a piece of paper (yes, you can use a computer – I prefer pen and paper) . Down the side number 1 to 20. At the top of the page, write a goal or problem in the form of a question. The more specific the question the higher the quality of the answers. Continue reading ‘Twenty Idea Method’ »

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Posted by Voss Graham on July 25, 2009 at 5:12 am under Coaching.
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