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03/25/2019 by Sean Brady

How to serve ice cream to your kids and other negotiation strategies

Every day we are faced with the potential for conflict. Lose-lose battles are unnecessary, if the parties have access to simple negotiation strategies.

Filed Under: Consensus-building Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, negotiation, tradeoff

02/07/2018 by Sean Brady

94 year old Marcel Remy will inspire you

94 year old mountain climber Marcel Remy will inspire you as he scales the Le Miroir d’Argentine, a 1500′ high, mile-long limestone face in the Swiss Alps.

Filed Under: Simply fascinating Tagged With: creativity skills

08/01/2017 by Sean Brady

Google identifies the five traits of high performing teams

Google has identified five traits shared by high performing teams. They have also made available their Team Effectiveness Discussion Guide as well as a tool for fostering psychological safety.

Filed Under: Consensus-building, Decision-making Tagged With: consensus, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, idea generation, innovation

01/09/2017 by Sean Brady

Strategic planning with a Regional Information Center

The South Central Regional Information Center team engages in a high energy, collaborative strategic planning process. “We’re nailing it, absolutely hammering on our immediate priorities,” reports its director. “It’s been an awesome experience for the whole SCRIC team.”

Filed Under: K-12 education Tagged With: consensus, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

12/22/2016 by Sean Brady

Tolerance for ambiguity

Successful problem solving requires tolerance for ambiguity.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: ambiguity, creative problem solving, creativity skills

08/19/2016 by Sean Brady

The life-long toll of I don’t, I won’t, I can’t

The world presents us with incalculable possibilities. Why do we so often reject them in favor of stale habit? Why are we inclined to sabotage opportunities for novelty? Embracing the comfort of the status quo is the scourge. Pursuing the adventure of novelty, the tonic.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, visionizing

07/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Visionize a preferred future

Feel trapped by the circumstances or challenges you face? Need to reinvent your life? Solve a persistent problem? Renew a relationship? Visionizing is a powerful thinking technique designed to elicit transformative strategies and actions. Visionize and create your future!

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: assumptions, biases, creative problem solving, creativity skills, decision-making, mental models, visionizing

06/21/2016 by Sean Brady

Open Your Feedback Loop

The habit of seeking and acting on feedback is essential to good thinking, effective problem solving and high performance.

Filed Under: Decision-making Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, feedback

06/02/2016 by Sean Brady

Breaking Through Impasse

Two simple techniques from the worlds of negotiation and creativity can help you ferret out and eliminate the unnecessary discussion of disagreement.

Filed Under: Consensus-building Tagged With: consensus, creativity skills, negotiation

05/26/2016 by Sean Brady

Errors are portals of discovery

Effective problem solving and decision-making requires that we embrace risk and accept our errors as portals of discovery.

Filed Under: Creativity & problem solving Tagged With: creative problem solving, creativity skills, feedback, risk-taking

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