Can Dance Help Your Business? A talk by Lucy Field at BHIve Covent Garden, August 2011
Looking at how the dance mindset can boost creativity and productivity in business
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Can Dance Help Your Business? A talk by Lucy Field at BHive Covent Garden
1. Can dance help your business? What you can learn from the dancer’s mindset to enhance creativity and productivity with Lucy Field Photo Credits: Pari Naderi, Benedict Johnson & Belinda Lawley
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6. Motivational Climate Psychological atmosphere or achievement environment in which dancers train and perform (e.g. Ames, 1984, 1992; Nicholls, 1984) From TrinityLaban research into Motivational Climate & Perfectionism among Young Dancers, MDS National Dance Centres for Advanced Training - TrinityLaban, London: Sanna M. Nordin-Bates ImogenJ. Walker Emma Redding Collaborators, University of Birmingham: Eleanor Quested Joan L. Duda www.trinitylaban.ac.uk Success Effort Focus Punished Part of learning Mistakes Rivalry Cooperation Peer relations Other-referenced Self-referenced Learning Ego-involving Task-involving
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9. How this relates to you What drives you? How do you stay motivated? What are the motivational factors for your team members? How can you foster passion within your company? What motivational climate do you set within your company? What passions/interests do they have and could this be incorporated into their work?
10. ‘ A work portfolio is a way of describing how the different bits of work in our life fit together to form a balanced whole. ’ Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason (1989) Natural Portfolio Workers
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13. Further Benefits Dance changes lives Youth Dance England www.yde.org.uk The Water Project - work with the homeless www.theplace.org.uk/482/water-project/the-water-project.html CandoCo - an integrated dance company www.candoco.co.uk Dance United - those who are marginalised www.dance-united.com Company of Elders - over 60s company www.sadlerswells.com/page/company-of-elders David Allen Harris - ex-child soldiers, Sierra Leone www.global-wellbeing.org
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15. Questions? With thanks to BHive [email_address] @ihearttalent www.lucyfield.com
Editor's Notes
Easy as a dancer to just focus on that and forget the rest – don’t! You are a human being and you need to get balance across all of it and have a vision Vision board exercise Compare your ‘now’ chart to ‘future’ what were the differences?
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