At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Interview with Jackie Sloane, Executive Coach and Communications Consultant
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 [...]
Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs
Many of you who have been to the Ranch know that one of the key components of the design is the toys. The toys are provided for a variety of reasons. They remind people of [...]
Interview with Jeff Merrell, Northwestern University, Learning & Organizational Change
Name: Jeff Merrell Company: Northwestern University Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change Area of Expertise: Linking knowledge-sharing practices to organizational strategy, with a particular emphasis on socially-responsible activities. What sparks your creativity? Being around [...]
Catalyst Ranch is Hosting Twestival on March 25, 2010 5:45-8pm
I can't believe it's time again for the 3rd Twestival held at Catalyst Ranch. For those of you confused by the name Twestival, let me clarify. Twestival is a chance for those involved in Twitter & Social [...]
Idea – 340 Club
Our friends at Stuart-Rodgers Photography have come up with a fantastic idea for keeping their creativity flowing and are willing to share it with all of us non-professionals. Here are the details in their own [...]
Purposeful Play – From Pamela Meyer
One of the common misconceptions about play is that it is necessarily purposeless, and therefore can’t possibly have any place in business. Harvard scholar and jazz pianist (and mentor) Frank Barrett calls improvised play a [...]
The Art of Stapling
The next time you pick up your stapler and mindlessly staple a stack of papers together, why don’t you give that stapler a closer examination and really think about your technique? Are you really as [...]
Buy Inventions: Build on the Genius of Others
Are you always coming up with great ideas or tinkering in your basement developing your next invention but don’t know how to bring them to market? Or are you involved in new product development and [...]
Fill In The Blanks – Fun With Meetings
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 [...]
At Catalyst Ranch, we’ve created an environment that stirs up inspiration and creativity, making corporate meetings infinitely more productive and weddings and special events wildly original.
Welcome to Creative Juice: the Catalyst Ranch blog, where you’ll find:
- our own insights into what makes creative magic happen at Catalyst Ranch
- activities and ideas you can use at home or with your colleagues, to juice up your imagination
- people, places and events around town that will feed your creative spirit
We’re glad to have you here. Now fill up your cup!
Our most recent posts:
Interview with Jackie Sloane, Executive Coach and Communications Consultant
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 [...]
Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children's Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs
Many of you who have been to the Ranch know that one of the key components of the design is the toys. The toys are provided for a variety of reasons. They remind people of [...]
Interview with Jeff Merrell, Northwestern University, Learning & Organizational Change
Name: Jeff Merrell Company: Northwestern University Master's Program in Learning & Organizational Change Area of Expertise: Linking knowledge-sharing practices to organizational strategy, with a particular emphasis on socially-responsible activities. What sparks your creativity? Being around [...]
Catalyst Ranch is Hosting Twestival on March 25, 2010 5:45-8pm
I can't believe it's time again for the 3rd Twestival held at Catalyst Ranch. For those of you confused by the name Twestival, let me clarify. Twestival is a chance for those involved in Twitter & Social [...]
Idea – 340 Club
Our friends at Stuart-Rodgers Photography have come up with a fantastic idea for keeping their creativity flowing and are willing to share it with all of us non-professionals. Here are the details in their own [...]
Purposeful Play – From Pamela Meyer
One of the common misconceptions about play is that it is necessarily purposeless, and therefore can’t possibly have any place in business. Harvard scholar and jazz pianist (and mentor) Frank Barrett calls improvised play a [...]
The Art of Stapling
The next time you pick up your stapler and mindlessly staple a stack of papers together, why don’t you give that stapler a closer examination and really think about your technique? Are you really as [...]
Buy Inventions: Build on the Genius of Others
Are you always coming up with great ideas or tinkering in your basement developing your next invention but don’t know how to bring them to market? Or are you involved in new product development and [...]
Fill In The Blanks – Fun With Meetings
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 [...]