Creativity snippets

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #09 Helping your team play

Now an essential part of being creative involves play, which we take to mean taking time out from logical rational thinking and letting our imaginations fly. Play is a word we normally associate with children, however if we can allow ourselves to play, then this will allow all sorts of possibilities to arise.

You can find more about Tracy on tjstanley.com and Barbara on barbara-wilson.com.

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #08 – Finding your creative muse

Creativity is about using all parts of our brain, both our logical, rational minds and our intuitive, more ‘open to possibility’ minds. This surely can't do us any harm. In fact, we would argue that by doing this, we are more likely to be taking wiser decisions and living our lives in a fuller way.

You can find more about Tracy on tjstanley.com and Barbara on barbara-wilson.com.

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #07 – Creative Leadership During Covid19

Barbara and Tracy discuss wicked problems and the nature of creative leadership drawing lessons from the current COVID crisis.

You can find more about Tracy on tjstanley.com and Barbara on barbara-wilson.com.

Creativity Snippets from Barbara and Tracy #06 - lessons learned from creative writing

Barbara and Tracy share their experiences of creative writing, and the lessons learned from this that can be applied more generally to creativity. 

You can find Tracy on tjstanley.com and Barbara on barbara-wilson.com

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #05 – Visioning the Future

Barbara and Tracy talk about creative tools and processes you can use to envision the future. We explore:

• How and when to use imagery in creativity.
• Individual versus group activities – benefits and limitations of each

Barbara can be found at barbara-wilson.com and Tracy at tjstanley.com

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #04 - Using Energisers to Stimulate Creativity

Barbara and Tracy discuss the importance of energisers and icebreakers and how they can be adapted in virtual meetings.

 

You can find Barbara at barbara-wilson.com and Tracy at tjstanley.com.

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #3 - Being Creative in a Lockdown

In this episode we discuss how to work creatively, alone or virtually with others, using the creative problem solving process, and we highlight the technique of the six thinking hats.

you can find Tracy at tjstanley.com and Barbara at barbara-wilson.com

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #2 Groupthink and its impact upon creativity

Barbara Wilson and Tracy Stanley discussing the impact of Group think on decision making and creativity in organisations.
Topics explored include the importance of challenging assumptions, the value of diversity in teams and the need for review processes to capture learning

Barbara an be found at barbara-wilson.com and Tracy at tjstanley.com.

Creativity snippets from Barbara and Tracy #1 - Creativity in the Workplace

Barbara and Tracy discuss creativity in the workplace, and potential  barriers to creativity.

This is the first in a series based around their book: Creativity cycling, help your team solve complex problems.