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Corporate Training for Your Company | 3 Step Plan

Career Advancement

The speaker can then give your company a corporate training that will address specific concerns instead of providing a superficial cookie-cutter solution that may sound grand but leaves no impact. Encourage employees to take on new creative projects and publicly reward those who take extra initiative.

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Finding the practical link between mind maps and project management

Ayoa

Of course, project management has existed in many forms for a long time – and techniques to help with easing and optimising that process have existed for just as long. More and more people are becoming aware of the power of creativity in all lines of work. Creating a resources section of your mind map is the perfect solution to this.

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14 Ways to Increase Creativity, Backed By Research [And Why it Matters]

She Owns Success

But while overly rigid environments will certainly stifle creativity, studies have found that setting limits or boundaries can, in fact, help to stimulate creativity by forcing the brain to come up with more creative solutions. Then more of these ah-ha moments you can have, the more creative and innovative you will be.

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The 5-Second Rule

Charles Leon

The first happens because the creative mind needs time to incubate ideas. So, when working on a creative project or anything that involves ideation and problem solving, it's often best to define and clarify the problem and then set it aside to allow the subconscious mind to work quietly in the background.

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The Secret of Johnny Depp’s Success

Lateral Action

While it's nice to enjoy these things after the fact, Amabile's research shows that focusing on them too much is a creativity killer. Johnny's solution to the problem of creative motivation is brutally simple - he focuses exclusively on intrinsic motivation, and does his best to ignore the external rewards. What Do You Think?

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Twitter can save your life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

Two other social media platforms I'm playing with right now are Vark.com, which I've found useful for getting questions answered in a way that hasn't quite worked yet for me with Twitter; and the newly launched RocketHub.com, which is a social media platform for crowdsourcing the funding of small creative projects.