by Dr Ken Hudson | Apr 2, 2013 | How to become a creative leader, Workshop Facilitator
For the last 10 years of my life, I’ve attended, designed or facilitated countless strategy or planning days. These have varied from a few leaders at a hotel in the city to major productions of hundreds of senior managers at exotic locations. And most of the time, a...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Feb 26, 2013 | Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity
HR leaders place great store on their annual employee engagement surveys. But i am wondering whether this is the best way to measure employee engagement? For a start these types of surveys are expensive and take a reading at one point in time. Much like going to a...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Feb 19, 2013 | How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
I believe that innovation is a skill. And like any skill can be learn’t and improved with practice. But like any skill there are some people that have a greater capacity than others (given the same level of practice). As a leader do you know who these people are in...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Feb 18, 2013 | How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
I was fortunate in my working life to spend 10 years at Citibank and American Express. Both of these companies used direct marketing extensively. This was a discipline that placed a premium on testing new approaches, measuring the results and comparing these results...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Feb 18, 2013 | How to become a creative leader, How to innovate in a fast, simple and low risk way
We’re drawn to the image of the lone genius whose mystical moment of insight changes the world. But the lone genius is a myth; instead, it’s group genius that generates breakthrough innovation.’ Professor Keith Sawyer, The Creative Power of Collaboration, 2007, page...
