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Holding a puppet is empowering, puppets can allow you to explore new ideas and create endless different situations. Here is an excellent energizer to spark people’s imagination and get your meeting started in the right mind set. It is also an icebreaker getting people to laugh and work as a team. With a puppet, your meeting’s [...]
Sometimes you want to get people in a completely different mindset before you get to the meat of the business at hand. This is a great exercise to get them thinking about everything but your business - specifically a business they know nothing about. It’s also a great way to level the playing field amongst meeting [...]
Name: Jackie Sloane Company: Sloane Communications, Inc. Area of Expertise: Collaborating with people to produce results through how they communicate, engage others, cultivate relationships! Share one of your trade secrets for keeping the energy and enthusiasm flowing when working through a long session or meeting with your clients. Laughter. Taking a moment to lighten up. [...]
Here’s a very easy and fun way to start a meeting, using the talents in the room to redesign the environment and give it some pizzazz. Assignment: Draw the missing half of a face of a person. Allotted Time: 5 minutes Go through a bunch of magazines and cut out interesting photos of people. [...]
I am sitting here trying to think up a name for a new product. It is funny that while I have performed this act a hundred times before --- never has an idea come while sitting down, looking at a blank page waiting for the name to just show up. I just isn’t going to happen [...]
On Monday we talked about the origins of brainstorms or ideation sessions. Those energetic sessions that companies use to develop a new product, provide company direction and find creative solutions to an existing problem. Having been part of many brainstorming sessions I have found that those that produce the desired results have one thing in common: [...]
The last time we met in the Creatives’ Space we mentioned brainstorm. Those fun, dynamic, energetic sessions that are used to produce a new product, provide a solution to a problem or create a new business venture. These sessions tend to have the best outcomes when individuals are gathered and given the opportunity to expand their [...]
Hi Ya’ll! Welcome to the one-and-only CREATIVES’ SPACE! That’s right a space dedicated to professionals like you! To enter you need the following: A desire to enhance creativity and the environment in which creativity is born. We plan to dedicate this on-line space, as we do our Catalyst Ranch, Chicago location, to be used by creatives, [...]