Creative Gorilla!

Creative Gorilla!

Creative Gorilla #13 - Ch...ch...ch...ch...changes...

Treating staff as consumers rather than as human resources can effect change better

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. “
Carl Jung Psychologist

When you are faced with a change programme at work, would you rather be treated as a consumer or a human resource? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #12 - Presenting you a challenge...

If you are looking for a way to challenge conventional thinking, try this technique…

“Not even the fastest, most modern jet can come close to matching Santa’s speed.” Petty Officer Bev Allen, NORAD

What If Santa Were Real? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #11 - The brain friendly meeting...

How can you make people more creative in meetings?

Creative Gorilla #10

You may never be as creative as Beethoven, but would you like inspiration when you need it?

“I need some help, some inspiration. (But it’s not coming easily)” Natasha Bedingfield “These Words”

How can you fire some inspiration? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #9 - Create your own luck...

There is a close link between the characteristics of lucky people and creative people…

“If an unlucky man sold umbrellas, it would stop raining. If he sold candles, the sun would never set; and if he made coffins, people would stop dying.” Yiddish saying quoted in “The Luck Factor by Professor Richard Wiseman

Do you feel lucky punk? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #8 - Creative leadership for one..

We all have the capability to lead. Even if others are not yet ready to follow we can still lead ourselves. We can be a leader of one.

“We all have the capability to lead. Even if others are not yet ready to follow we can still lead ourselves. We can be a leader of one.” John Brooker inspired by the words of Tony Robbins

Do you want to be a creative leader? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #7 - Think naïve…

You don’t have to be an expert to generate creative ideas…

“I know. It’s called a flatulator!” Andrew Brooker aged 6 ½ years

Do you consider it necesary to be an expert to generate creative ideas? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #6 - PIGS don't fly...

If we want our creativity to achieve anything, we have to overcome some obstacles …

“There are plenty of great ideas out there… but so few people actually do anything about them” Speaker on “Woman’s Hour”

Have you ever had a really great idea for work or personal life but not taken it to fruition?
Read on…

Creative Gorilla #5 - The Pensieve Technique

“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed in to my mind,” said Dumbledore…”at these times… I use the Pensieve.” From Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)

“What else can you see in there?”

Has an issue been running through your mind for a long time? Read on…

Creative Gorilla #4 - Create flow

“It’s a Zen feeling, like meditation or concentration. One thing you’re after is when things become automatic…somehow the right thing is done without your ever thinking about it or doing anything at all… it just happens and you are more concentrated.” Rock climber, quoted in Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi (“chick SENT me high”).

Have you ever felt a similar kind of feeling to that described in the quotation above? Either at work or whilst pursuing a hobby? Csikzentihalyi describes this feeling as flow, which occurs when both challenges and skills are high and equal to each other.