by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity
What consumes most of your time at work? A. For most managers, the answer is always the same — Meetings! Yet in spite of their many criticisms of meetings (i.e. too many, too long, rarely produce an outcome) many managers and leaders adopt a hands off approach in the...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session, Speed Thinking
Groups and teams have two key tools to solve problems, generate ideas and making decisions. These are meetings and brainstorming. Yet both of these tools have pluses and minuses. But imagine if you could take the best bits of Brainstorming and mix it with the positive...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to boost your productivity
For most people giving a presentation is one of their greatest fears. I suspect most people can handle this but what they really worry about is trying to think on the spot. It could be an unexpected or difficult question. Or a comment or interjection from the...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to run an awesome Brainstorming Session
I just read the following tweet from a frustrated student; Group projects: one person does all the work. Everyone takes credit. Does this sound familiar? In my 10 years of teaching at a graduate level (part-time) in a business school the most common area of complaint...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 30, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to accelerate idea generation, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity
An Ideas Blitz and a meeting are two different tools that are suited for different purposes, much like a hammer and a spade are used for a specific requirement. Together they form a more complete tool kit. But here are the differences between Blitzing and Meetings: A...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Nov 29, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
The most important action in Speed Thinking and it’s tool, Ideas Blitz is to start. in this new, accelerated way of thinking for individuals and groups we start with the individual and work up to a partner then a group. We also start by having each individual...
