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Embracing Slow Living: A Coach's Guide to Taking Time Off for the Holidays by Ruby McGuire

The Coaching Tools Company

Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Embracing Slow Living: A Coach's Guide to Taking Time Off for the Holidays by Ruby McGuire The holiday season can be chaotic! There are lots of events on, people want to meet up. There are presents and food to buy, and you have to run your business on top of all that. It's important that we, as coaches, take time off over the holiday season.

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Psychological Safety in Cultures of High-Risk Innovation

Up Your Culture

In this episode, we’re taking a look at why psychological safety is a crucial component in all organizations: especially those known for taking risks in pursuit of innovation. And here to help us break it all down is Adrienne Wilkerson, Co-Founder and CEO at Beacon Media + Marketing. Adrienne makes a ton of amazing points, like: Why you can’t have true innovation without psychological safety How being willing to innovate means owning our mistakes from the top down And, finally, why you and your

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Coach FEATURE: Chitra Sankaran NLP Master Practitioner, NHS General Practitioner

The Coaching Tools Company

Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Coach FEATURE: Chitra Sankaran NLP Master Practitioner, NHS General Practitioner We continue to meet our fellow coaches, get inspired and build coach community with our "Meet the Coach" features! This month we meet Chitra Sankaran NLP Master Practitioner, NHS General Practitioner About Chitra Lives In : Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Company : Lifeline Academy Type of Coach : Career & Life Coach Describe your coaching business in one sentence

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Ideation Skills: Connection Making

Creative Realities

Making mental links between things that are not normally or have not previously been recognized as the source of a new idea A core skill of brainstorming and creative-problem solving is learning how to make connections; those "a-ha" moments when two or more seemingly unrelated, even irrelevant signals in the brain suddenly come together to create a powerful new insight, idea, or conclusion.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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3 Common Barriers to Organizational Change & Tips to Overcome Them

Harvard Business School Online

Organizational change often faces barriers like resistance, leadership gaps, and cultural challenges. Explore actionable strategies to overcome these obstacles to drive successful, lasting transformation.

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Haikus for the Soul (the Innovative Soul that is) PART II

Creative Realities

Good morning to you! Sincere apologies for not having these posted on Monday like I had previously written.

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Clayton Christensen: 2 Surprising Reasons Good Companies Fail

Creative Realities

Clayton Christensen is an inspiring guy. Not only has he disrupted the business world throughout his career as one of the foremost innovation academics, he has also overcome a bout with cancer and a recent stroke. Introduced as "the Kobe Bryant of the innovation world," he kicked off the 2011 World Innovation Forum. He began by informing the audience of close to 1,000 that after his stroke one year ago, he had to relearn to speak one word at a time.

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Lease Accounting: A Major Hurdle for Business Owners

She Owns Success

Lease accounting has long been a significant stumbling block for both new and established business owners. The intricacies of accounting standards like ASC 842 and IFRS 16 have introduced layers of complexity that can be daunting to navigate. What’s more, navigating these standards isn’t just about balancing the books; it’s about ensuring compliance, avoiding costly errors, and setting up a financial foundation that supports sustainable growth.

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Innovation Ad-Libs

Creative Realities

I'm going to go out on a limb here and postulate that Monday mornings are the bane of the working (wo)man's existence. No matter how many cups of coffee you down, E-mail notifications you silence, or meetings you skip, there's just a heavy mood that permeates the planes, trains, and automobiles that brought us to work this morning -- with no reprieve in sight.

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‘Hunting’ for a different way to approach your innovation challenges?

Creative Realities

A scavenger hunt is a novel way of approaching your innovation challenges.

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The Hidden Skills That Separate Good Leaders from Great Ones

Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical degrees might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Inspired by stories from her father coupled with her own career journey, seasoned executive Chandra McCormack breaks down how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace cult

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A Parable of Yin, Yang and the Pursuit of Innovation

Creative Realities

A parable on one of the paradoxes of innovation: balancing short-term with long-term needs

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Haikus for the Soul (the Innovative Soul that is)

Creative Realities

Here at Creative Realities, we use an 11-step process of creative problem-solving to help our clients generate, develop, and troubleshoot ideas to help them overcome an obstacle, realize an opportunity, or to simply stretch their thinking beyond its current state. In only working here a few shorts months, I've seen this process produce some amazing results for people and it makes me wonder why everyone isn't using this method to better their professional and/or personal lives?

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Wayne Gretzky and the Perfect Metaphor for Innovation

Creative Realities

In a recent workshop I was asked this question: “If you could only share one thing that executive decision-makers must learn if they are to get what they expect from their innovation investments what would it be? ” I didn’t hesitate for a second. I immediately flashed this hockey graphic onto the wall. They thought I was nuts.

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Top 5 Reasons Brainstorming Sessions Fail

Creative Realities

Top 5 reasons brainstorming sessions fail - tips for more productive and creative meetings

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Building Compliant Workplace Violence Prevention Across States: CA SB-553 | NY S. 8358B

Speaker: Speakers:

Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

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3 Useful Creative Problem Solving Techniques for Brainstorms

Creative Realities

Tips for Creative Problem Solving for Brainstorms

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When Do You Come Up with Your Best Ideas?

Creative Realities

Newton did it lounging under an apple tree. Archimedes did it soaking in a bathtub. Einstein did it while shaving. Those are the settings in which these great minds did their best thinking (at least according to legend). The common theme is that they were in the state of relaxed concentration. Rather than sit at your desk hammering away at a problem, it is often wise to let your mind wander.

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7 Tips for Managing the Complexity of Launch

Creative Realities

Product launches are complex. That was the main takeaway of the PDMA 2010 Lab E Launch for Commercial Success which I had the privilege of attending today. The session kicked off with an apt and literal example: a NASA shuttle launch. When NASA launched the Saturn V rocket, its engineers were depending on the successful integration of 2 million distinct systems. 2 million!

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Creative Leadership- Is it too risky?

Creative Realities

Forbes contributor Chunka Mui posted an interesting article that addressed a study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The results of the study found that creativity negatively affected perceptions of leadership potential. In a series of experiments conducted among working adults in India and college students in the U.S., individuals perceived as creative were repeatedly seen as less effective leaders.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.

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Future Pull - Creating a Proprietary Vision of the Future

Creative Realities

Leadership often involves making decisions in the face of insufficient information. This is especially true when it comes to enabling the pursuit of innovation. Doing nothing until the situation clarifies itself is in itself a decision. But, by the time the situation is clear the real opportunity has passed. As Will Rodgers once said “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

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Excursions - A Mental Flight of Fancy

Creative Realities

During a brainstorming session, we have a technique to help the group generate fresh, novel ideas, which we call an excursion. It is a deliberate step away from the task to help gain a fresh perspective, like “sleeping on the problem.” An excursion is flexible; it can be run at several points during a creative problem-solving session, but is particularly powerful at the Wishing, Ways & Means, and Overcoming How-Tos steps in the process.