In the spirit of creativity and innovation, and to celebrate the launch of Coaching for Innovation, we asked guests at our recent launch event to contribute to a collaborative painting. Material was provided to enable each person to make their own creative contribution – adding whatever they wished to the canvas as the mood took […]
This was the question we asked guests at the recent launch event for Coaching for Innovation held in Switzerland (the country where both Maureen and Cristina live). Big, small, inventive, funny, serious – everyone has at one time or another done something creative. People were asked to write a brief description of their creative moment […]
“When is a metaphor more than a metaphor?” Perhaps you can help us to decide when you have finished reading this post. The reason this question is there in the first place is because one of our Coaching for Innovation Test Pilots, who has a strong professional interest in the sustainable use of our global […]
Did you know that you can develop the skills and behaviours that lie at the heart of being innovative? To be more innovative, you have to have good habits and behave like an innovator. In their book The Innovator’s DNA, Dyer, Gregersen and Christensen state that ‘…innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others […]
When we received our authors’ copies of Coaching for Innovation earlier this week , shortly after publication on 2nd May, 2104, it was an occasion for celebration. After two years of hard but enjoyable work, our “baby” had finally arrived. All we could think of was the achievement. We savoured the moment and we are […]
Creative thinking comes in many guises and can be stimulated and encouraged in ways you might never have thought were possible. Sometimes, it is simply about doing things differently. This clip on YouTube about a time-efficient way to slice cherry tomatoes has had more than four million hits. That is a lot of energy saved […]
Welcome to the first blog post. We see the blog as a way of having a conversation with you. Our hope is that this will become a two-way conversation and turn into a dialogue with you where we can share thoughts, ideas and experiences around the topics of innovation, creativity, and of course coaching. We […]