Although goal-setting programming and energy sources are the fuel for achieving our potential, nothing happens until we take action. Action is the one thing that distinguishes high-achievers from dreamers and hopers. Here are the important features of the Action stage of goal achievement.
Whether you are trying to inject new ideas into your business or want to develop your leadership team, BrainSpark is THE way your business can tap into the surging new Creativity Culture. This presentation is a quick introduction on who we are and how we can help.
What every business can learn from young entrepreneurs (publ)Frederic De Meyer
For my second book I took a look at a number of young entrepreneurs - what they are made of, what trends are they working on, etc. In this presentation I discuss what I learned from them and how these learnings could (and should) be applied to traditional businesses as well (in order to attract and retain young innovative talent).
Of course it's better to have the narratives along, so don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd want this presented 'live' at one of your events...
This session is for practitioners who are serious about business results and helping Agile values and principles succeed in large scale environments. David addresses the terrifying questions business owners have in the real world -- questions Agilists don't like talking about.
Agile work is messy business. We've broken the mold and a generation of executives and managers are reeling in ambiguity. They turn to consultants who throw frameworks at them. They turn to Agile Coaches and hear, ""it's all about mindset"". We need to do better than that!
We can elevate the discussion with business leaders and stop beating around the bush. Real business problems need serious answers.
David Sabine
Although goal-setting programming and energy sources are the fuel for achieving our potential, nothing happens until we take action. Action is the one thing that distinguishes high-achievers from dreamers and hopers. Here are the important features of the Action stage of goal achievement.
Whether you are trying to inject new ideas into your business or want to develop your leadership team, BrainSpark is THE way your business can tap into the surging new Creativity Culture. This presentation is a quick introduction on who we are and how we can help.
What every business can learn from young entrepreneurs (publ)Frederic De Meyer
For my second book I took a look at a number of young entrepreneurs - what they are made of, what trends are they working on, etc. In this presentation I discuss what I learned from them and how these learnings could (and should) be applied to traditional businesses as well (in order to attract and retain young innovative talent).
Of course it's better to have the narratives along, so don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd want this presented 'live' at one of your events...
This session is for practitioners who are serious about business results and helping Agile values and principles succeed in large scale environments. David addresses the terrifying questions business owners have in the real world -- questions Agilists don't like talking about.
Agile work is messy business. We've broken the mold and a generation of executives and managers are reeling in ambiguity. They turn to consultants who throw frameworks at them. They turn to Agile Coaches and hear, ""it's all about mindset"". We need to do better than that!
We can elevate the discussion with business leaders and stop beating around the bush. Real business problems need serious answers.
David Sabine
Choose your own Coaching Adventure and Other GamesAgile Montréal
Who loves to play games? Discover 5 games that quickly teach the basics of Agile Coaching.
In ""Flash Card Coaching,"" experience powerful questions and the value of coaching by using a deck of 24 powerful questions to silently coach a fellow attendee from ""what's on your mind"" to ""what will you do next and when will you do it?"" In the 3 categorization games, work in small groups to sort cards into categories and then turn them over to get feedback.
The first game has you sort questions into powerful or not, the second into different kinds of advice giving or advocating, and the third into coaching, mentoring, teaching, or facilitating. Finally, there are two ""Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure"" games. You are presented with a scenario and multiple choices. Each choice may lead further down the path to a successful coaching outcome or end up with an unhappy coachee. Each unhappy ending comes with an explanation and you can always try again. All of the games are freely downloadable.
Gillian Lee
Damon Poole
Surrounded By Genius: Practical Advice On Creative LeadershipKelsey Ruger
We live in a world of constant change. That change is shifting the way businesses compete, reshaping our careers and forcing us to rethink the terms "talent" and "leadership". Many people in creative fields struggle to manage their careers or effectively help their team members grow theirs because some common "best practices" just don't fit in our changing world. How do great creative leaders cut through the change and chaos to find opportunities to help their team and company succeed? By finding ways to uncap creativity and execute on opportunities that cultivate their creative leadership. This isn’t easy: Creative people don’t want to be led in the same way as other employees. Find out how to deal with the growing need for creative leadership and how you can create the right environment for those skill sets to thrive.
I you are a business owner age 50+, this book could save your business, your wealth and your life. You will learn "Transition Thinking" to build a "Dream Team" of advisors, and learn to create a new, dynamic life of meaning an purpose, "beyond the business".
This book is for leaders at all levels whose aim is to make a difference in their world and for coaches who desire to play a catalytic role in this process.
This is a talk not just focused on sharing data points, facts and figures, but, a discussion on changing our perspective of the world around us, the world we work within and design for. It's a conversation on merging proven models and philosophies with common sense to better allow the best of us to do our best work.
Choose your own Coaching Adventure and Other GamesAgile Montréal
Who loves to play games? Discover 5 games that quickly teach the basics of Agile Coaching.
In ""Flash Card Coaching,"" experience powerful questions and the value of coaching by using a deck of 24 powerful questions to silently coach a fellow attendee from ""what's on your mind"" to ""what will you do next and when will you do it?"" In the 3 categorization games, work in small groups to sort cards into categories and then turn them over to get feedback.
The first game has you sort questions into powerful or not, the second into different kinds of advice giving or advocating, and the third into coaching, mentoring, teaching, or facilitating. Finally, there are two ""Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure"" games. You are presented with a scenario and multiple choices. Each choice may lead further down the path to a successful coaching outcome or end up with an unhappy coachee. Each unhappy ending comes with an explanation and you can always try again. All of the games are freely downloadable.
Gillian Lee
Damon Poole
Surrounded By Genius: Practical Advice On Creative LeadershipKelsey Ruger
We live in a world of constant change. That change is shifting the way businesses compete, reshaping our careers and forcing us to rethink the terms "talent" and "leadership". Many people in creative fields struggle to manage their careers or effectively help their team members grow theirs because some common "best practices" just don't fit in our changing world. How do great creative leaders cut through the change and chaos to find opportunities to help their team and company succeed? By finding ways to uncap creativity and execute on opportunities that cultivate their creative leadership. This isn’t easy: Creative people don’t want to be led in the same way as other employees. Find out how to deal with the growing need for creative leadership and how you can create the right environment for those skill sets to thrive.
I you are a business owner age 50+, this book could save your business, your wealth and your life. You will learn "Transition Thinking" to build a "Dream Team" of advisors, and learn to create a new, dynamic life of meaning an purpose, "beyond the business".
This book is for leaders at all levels whose aim is to make a difference in their world and for coaches who desire to play a catalytic role in this process.
This is a talk not just focused on sharing data points, facts and figures, but, a discussion on changing our perspective of the world around us, the world we work within and design for. It's a conversation on merging proven models and philosophies with common sense to better allow the best of us to do our best work.
How to Manage Creative People – Top Tips from the ExpertsWebdam
We know why you’re here.
You manage creatives or at least you want to, and they’re a tough bunch to figure out. As much as you might want to sometimes, you can’t just treat them like everyone else. – they’re different and they do important work that the rest of us simply can’t replicate with any sort of quality.
So let’s figure this thing out: communication, motivation, criticism – the whole nine yards. To help us out with that, we called in dozens of the most incredible art directors, creative officers and brand managers on the planet. They were gracious enough to give us a little insight into how they get such impressive results from their creative teams.
And now we’re sharing that good stuff with you. Enjoy!
How to communicate values without telling people to 'live the values' onefishcomms
If you want to create an adult-to-adult, self responsible, high trust culture, the way you communicate values matters. Use the WAY you share the values to demonstrate the values themselves.
Changing Organizational Culture for the New Economyampitup01
An organization's culture will either facilitate or stifle its ability to execute its strategy successfully. Current and upcoming trends in today's digital and global economy will require not just cultural change, but cultural evolution. We believe that the heart to remaining relevant is in the development of a Possibility Culture.™
Visit www.possibilitiesamplified.com.
Final cycles overview jan 2019 with toolkitBryan Cassady
Scaling up is hard and deadly if done wrong. We would like to help you get it right.
This presentation introduces the ABCs method of innovation and provides toolkits you could use to grow fast while reducing riks
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A study by Startup Genome analyzed the results of 3,200 start-ups, they found that of the majority of start-ups failed. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. What is more important is they found, 70% failed because of premature or faulty scaling.
In this workshop, you learn about the ABCs method. The ABCs method is a system-based approach to growing your business. It has been proven to build ideas up to 6x faster while reducing risks 30-80%.
The Handy Culture Deck provides an inside look at the uniquely Handy company and culture we are building to achieve our mission. It outlines the things we believe at Handy and the ways we try to live up to them.
Interested joining the team at Handy and changing the world? Visit handy.com/careers.
17 FROM 17: THE BEST BUSINESS BOOKS OF 2017Kevin Duncan
This year's highlights of the popular blog greatesthitsblog.com.
Author and business advisor Kevin Duncan reads business books extensively and summarises them so you don't have to.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
“Is Living A Few Years Of Your Life Like
Most People Won’t, So That You Can Spend The Rest Of Your Life Like Most People Can’t.”
Entrepreneurs are all different. They all have a different entrepreneur mindset that contributes to their success. Their entrepreneur mindset might have to do with their personality or even the field in which they havechosen to work.
When figuring out your own approach to the challenges of entrepreneurship, it can help to learn from the experiences of others.
We’ve selected the experiences and entrepreneur mindset of 10 well-known entrepreneurs from a variety of different fields. It is our hope that you will find something in each of their stories that will help you in your own entrepreneurial adventures.
What I really want to talk about is "Branding", more holistically … but, I don't want to have our typical conversation, for I believe it is our typical conversation that is most ripe for disruption. We are at the beginning of a revolution … a data revolution that is going to de-thrown content as king.
Typically we'll speak of branding in terms of a "campaign"; we'll gather a handful of information, we craft a very well worded message and we diseminate that message carefully. What do we have, what we are going to say about it and who are we going to say it to?
We used to be in the worst kind of relationship … all talk and no listening, now, we have conversations. The fundamentals are still right, but, in the era of social media, the rules have changed, the conversation evolved and the audience now much more engaged.
1. Designing Design Teams
A rant, a rave and a reality check on how we build creative teams,
manage collaboration and fuel the inspiration inside.
2. Peek Behind the Curtain
It is imperative that we first understand the business of people,
before we sympathize with the people in business.
3. Set Perspective
We have to understand that everything has to do with anything,
and, anything has to do with everything.
It’s less about learning facts & formulas,
and more about the application
to both people and life.
4. Set Perspective
We have to understand that everything has to do with anything,
and, anything has to do with everything.
It’s less about learning facts & formulas,
and more about the application
to both people and life.
5. Revealing the Magic
The world of business often first looks past the human-element:
• People are seen as “Resources”
• Resources are expected to be “Productive”
• Productivity produces “Profits”
• Profits increase with “Efficiency”
7. We are all not Equal
To begin understanding the unique dynamics of the creatives behind creativity,
we must first acknowledge that the work force is inherently unfair.
8. Natural Inequality
We struggle to make accommodations for specific groups,
yet, we forget that accommodations already exist:
• Developers are provided with higher salaries
• Accountants require less ongoing training
• Sales teams are given expense accounts
• Some get a $600 IBM and others a $2,000 Mac
9. Accommodating Creatives
We are different. We work differently, we think differently and our industry evolves
at a pace that is radically different; we must embrace this difference.
10. Designing :-)
Be less focused on building world class products,
be more focused on building world class teams.
11. The Objective
Find great talent, create an environment in which great talent can do great work.
Great talent doing great work produces world class products.
12. “ Success is empowering
great talent to do great work.
14. Creative Fulfillment
Passion is our fuel, inspiration pushes us forward and we can’t turn it off.
Great talent is egoless, avoids politics and cares simply about:
What We Do When We Do It Where We Do It
15. Are You Happy?
It’s a bullshit question that almost always returns a bullshit response.
We often fail to understand the question and are fearful to be truthful.
Downton Abby
Season 2, Episode 8
16. The Happiness Spectrum
We must know when to let go and we must remember that a raise, promotion or
special project is not a long-term solution to an unhappy problem.
Irreversibly Unhappy Happy to be “Not Unhappy” Unsustainably Happy
There is no turning back. Where most of us spend our time. Temporary love for the job.
36. Success is based on the Math
We love the idea of the concept, and we love the product of the concept.
But, is it successful? And, how do we measure that?
37. What are we Doing Here?
Let us focus on the “What We Do It”
38. Theory X
Assumes employees are by nature lazy and avoid work and
therefore need to be closely supervised and controlled.
The Human Side of Enterprise
by MIT professor Douglas McGregor
39. Theory Y
Assumes that most people enjoy mental and physical activities,
want to be creative, and want to succeed at work. Given the right
conditions, employees will seek out and accept responsibility and
exercise self-control, self-direction and creativity.
The Human Side of Enterprise
by MIT professor Douglas McGregor
40. “ Retain great talent, and,
enable great talent to thrive.
41. Great talent are naturally
“Above Optimal” performers.
Those designers to which “the bar” is not the point of delivery.
But, rather the base-line starting point for the minimum expectation.
42. Above-Optimal Productivity
It’s not about having 20% free time
It’s about better utilizing and understanding our time
43. Above-Optimal Utilization
There is a percentage of our time optimal for an opportunity to:
Pool Resources Collaborative Environments
maximize down-time for group benefit work with teams outside the norm
Inventory Management Enhance Skill-sets
produce forward to stay ahead of schedule work with skills beyond the day-to-day
Self-Management Satisfaction Supply Chain Efficiency
have greater ownership over creative endeavors ensure inherent organizational synergy
46. Where do our best ideas form?
The answer is never “in the 5th floor conference room at 10am”.
Our best ideas usually come to us elsewhere:
• While jogging or in the shower
• Right before bed or as soon as we wake-up
• When we’re thinking about something else
47. Environment Matters
The goal is to be able to walk into a space and say,
“Yes, I can be creative here today”.
53. “Understanding why something was
successful is fundamentally different
than simply copying the steps that
were taken to achieve that success.
54. The Designer’s Dilemma
The question asked most often by designers is ...
Why don’t we have a seat at the table?
55. Vernacular
“ The primary issue within any organization
almost always comes down to communication. ”
56. Remotely Relevant
I’m not making this shit up, we’re in the middle of the “talent wars”.
It’s about harnessing the energy created from talent and passion.
Marissa Mayer: The Future of Yahoo!
57. Managing Creatives
A wrap-up with a quick rant on
leadership and management in a creative field.
58. “I believe that design managers
should be focused more on their
people than their portfolio.
59. “ I believe that leaders lead
designers to great solutions
rather than provide their solution
in front of those they lead.
You do not lead simply because you’ve stepped in front of someone else and they followed suit.
60. “ I believe that creatives’ unique
inspiration driven nature and
passion leaves us easily susceptible
to burnout and disengagement.
A nature that is unfortunately often overlooked by ignorance and left to malnourishment
61. “ The pit crew pays little attention
to the finish-line, their focus is on
ensuring the car and the driver
simply get there.
Output is a measure for success, when it’s the focus, the crucial resources to get you there break-down.
62. We’re Different Dammit!
The way we work is different, and is the way we hire, the way we communicate,
the way we collaborate, as well as the way in which we learn and grow.
• We must advocate to be our own HR team
• We must fight for our own budgets
• We must take better control of our own Comms
• We must learn to run our team like a business