April 27, 2017 ·

Radio: Coffee With Derek on IMAN FM 06/04/2017 Part 2

23 Min, 59 Sec

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By Derek Cheshire

Part two of my weekly radio show Coffee With Derek broadcast on April 6th 2017 on Iman FM. Some things on Business Creativity and Innovation plus a little music from REM.

Part two of my weekly radio show Coffee With Derek broadcast on April 6th 2016 on Iman FM. Some things on Business Creativity and Innovation plus a little music from REM.

April 27, 2017 ·

Radio: Coffee With Derek on IMAN FM 06/04/2017 Part 1

26 Min

·

By Derek Cheshire

Part one of my weekly radio show Coffee With Derek broadcast on April 6th 2017 on Iman FM. Some things on Business Creativity and Innovation plus a little music from REM

Part one of my weekly radio show Coffee With Derek broadcast on April 6th 2016 on Iman FM. Some things on Business Creativity and Innovation plus a little music from REM

Whilst at the recent PSA MEGA convention I was privileged to listen to the great Nabil Doss. He provided us with a template for producing a trailer, the trailer code. I wrote mine down and hastily recorded it and cleaned it up. Here is the result, my creativity trailer.

Using negativity, especially within the workplace, is something you should try to do.

There are creative techniques that embrace negativity. In this podcast I describe one technique that you can use either on your own or with a group of people. If you have any negative people around you then they can help you greatly without actually realising it.

As CEO, if you want people to be creative, you must be prepared to implement their viable ideas. You must encourage creativity. Employees will soon work out that your support of creativity is a sham and will hold back on the creativity. After all, what’s the point in making the effort to develop and promote ideas if they just get ignored?

Mood Hoovers. Do you have some of those negative people in your business who just suck the life out of you? If you are self employed maybe you are surrounded by some. What do you do about them? Find out how using negativity can improve your business.

As young children we play without thinking about what we are doing. Sticks become spears and swords and cardboard boxes make great castles. These, and other methods of play allow us to experience the real world but in a non-threatening way. Also we engage our imagination without the presence of the artificial barriers or filters that adults tend to employ. As adults we call this prototyping but we tend to forget the importance. We must value play more.

‘Building’ techniques are extremely powerful, often very portable and can have very positive secondary effects. They allow you to take virtually any input – a random piece of news, a misunderstanding or an accidental meeting – and get useful ideas from it.