The document discusses how creativity and innovation are important skills for leadership. It argues that we are all born artists but many people lose confidence in their creative abilities due to fear of failure or harsh criticism from others. The presentation aims to help attendees overcome fears and embrace their creativity by suggesting techniques like sketching without judgment and visualizing future possibilities through group activities. Creativity is presented as an iterative process that benefits from experimentation and refinement of ideas over time.
3. Why Are We Here?
Our objective today is for you to leave here,
better equipped to introduce creativity and
innovation into your place of work.
4. Creativity – It Matters
A major survey of CEOs selected ‘creativity’ as
the most critical capability to navigate today’s
complex world, rating it higher
than‘vision’,‘rigour’or ‘management discipline’.
Design Council - 2013
7. Vulnerability
‘Vulnerability is the path to
belonging, to innovation, trust
and creativity.’
85% of interviewees for Brene
Brown’s research can recall a
time in school that was so
shaming it forever changed how
they thought of themselves as
learners – 50% of those
recollections related to art and
creativity.
8. Are You Creative?
I ask people:
‘Can you draw/paint/sketch?’
They say:
‘I am not an artist’
Our work is our art
We are all artists -
Never be ashamed to admit it
9. Overcoming Fear - Draw For The Bin
We get hung up on believing
our work is not good enough.
We are not here to create
Masterpieces – we are here to
stretch our creative muscles.
Draw for the bin – not the
Royal Academy
Relax – and sketch yourself
Into existence.
10. Ebb and Flow – Tuning up the
Environment for Creativity
Creativity isn’t something you just switch on.
It ebbs and flows according to the environment and attitude around you.
What are the levers and dials you need to be aware of and able to adjust?
11.
12. Iteration
Creative work is iterative. Once an idea forms, it develops over a period of time.
Each attempt, each mistake informs our learning until we realise the final tweaks needed,
in order to get close to what we see in our mind’s eye.
14. Sketching the Future of Work
Inviting teams to cocreate a ‘big picture’ future for their work. Here’s just one
example, follow the link to see more. Had we more time, we would have
refined and developed our work further – the point was simply to get people
familiar with the concept on the day.
http://stopdoingdumbthingstocustomers.com/learning/visualising-your-work/
15. Creativity From Constraint
‘Creativity is subtraction – Choose what to leave
out’ – Austin Kleon
‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ Anon
‘Drawing is about mark making. Try to use only
the marks you need’ – Kit White
1,500 kindergarten age kids surveyed for ‘genius’ levels of divergent thinking – the ability to come up with many solutions to a problem. At this young age, 98% have this ability.
By the time these kids are aged 8-10, the level drops to 32%.
By the time these kids are aged 13-15, the level drops to 10%
A similar study of people aged 25 and over returned a level of only 2%
We seem to be routinely driving creativity and collaboration out of people.
Source: Breakpoint and Beyond
I ask people:
‘Can you draw/paint/sketch?’
They say:
‘I am not an artist’
Our work is our art
We are all artists -
Never be ashamed to admit it
We get hung up on believing
our work is not good enough.
We are not here to create
Masterpieces – we are here to
stretch our creative muscles.
Draw for the bin – not the
Royal Academy
Relax – and sketch yourself
Into existence.
Creativity isn’t something you just switch on. It ebbs and flows according to the environment and attitude around you. What are the levers and dials you need to be aware of and able to adjust?
Used basic art as a learning trigger for others to experiment with for some time.
A reluctant daughter
Working coactively
I’d been using basic artistic methods in client work for several years, but without practicing them myself.
In August 2011 I encouraged my daughter to make a birthday card for her Grandpa, by making one too. This picture is the card I made.
I decided to keep the artistic practice going and set up the artsensorium website so I could publish what I drew, painted and learnt.
The artsensorium has become a great way to show my work, in all its untrained clunkiness. An essential part of adopting creative ways to work needs to be about working out loud – showing emerging ideas so that others can give you feedback.