Break Free of the Box!!

Presented by Tammy Dewarand Dave Whittington

Calliope’s Volunteer Work

• We are donating a portion of our time and fees from our Client Appreciation Seminars to Leadership Victoria.

A focus for the session

• You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein

• Think of a challenge you are facing in your workplace. Jot down a few ideas about it. You will be using this challenge as a focus for the activities in the workshop.

• Workshop slides will be posted to Calliope’s website within the next week.

• Eureka

Discuss …

• What role did critical debate and analysis play in their process?

• What risks were taken?• What change(s) in approach contributed to the

design of the shopping cart?• How did time play a role?• What other factors played a role in their design

process?• What insights from this clip might apply to your

challenge?

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How to …

C - Tame your inner CRITIC

• The Lawn Chair People

• Turn I can’ts into I choose not to …

C - tame your external CRITIC

• It’s easy to look at the iPhone and then reverse-engineer the arguments that would have killed it off at almost any other company:– Consumers will reject a keyboard they can’t feel.

– No one will spend that much for a phone.

– People won’t want to get a new number online.

– You can’t succeed working with just one carrier.• Adam Hanft, branding guru, blog on Fast Company

C - tame your CRITIC

• In pairs:– What does your inner critic (voice in the head)

look like? Do you need to tame it? How?– What “I can’ts” do you have? What will you

change them to?– What can you do to tame your external critic?– How does the inner/external critic play a role in

your challenge?

R - be open to RISK

• All children are artists. The problem is how to remain artists once they grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso

• Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Frederick B. Wilcox

• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

R - be open to RISK

• What is the greatest risk you have taken?

• What is a risk you want to take and haven’t yet? What has stopped you?

R - be open to RISK

• Discuss with the person next to you:– What are the risks in your challenge?

– Are these risks real or worst case scenario imagined?

– What is the risk of you not doing anything about your challenge?

– What are you over or under estimating related to your challenge?

– What could you do to address the risks in your challenge and start to move towards a solution?

E - shift your ENERGY

• If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk. ~Raymond Inmon

• Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Egg and The Eye," Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000, spoken by the character Mad-Eye Moody

E - shift your ENERGY

• Go for a walk and ask each other the two energy questions on card 28– How would walking in someone else’s shoes

shed light on your challenge?– What’s one change you could make to your life

that would give you more energy?

A - explore ALTERNATIVES

• It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. ~ Edward de Bono

A - explore ALTERNATIVES

• In your pairs, working with the object you chose out of the basket, complete card #17.

T - make TIME

• Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing. ~ Stacey Charter

• Fallow time - ~ Jeff Mauzy and Richard Harriman Building an Inventive Organization

T - make TIME

• Complete Card #22

• Complete the one page handout based on card #22

E - EXECUTE

• If you don't execute your ideas, they die. ~ Roger Von Oech

• In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

E - EXECUTE

1. If you could not fail (related to your challenge), what would you do?

2. What’s one small step you can take now to move closer to addressing your challenge?

• Write out the answers to these questions using the two cue cards supplied. On each card, put your name, date, contact info and the answers to the 2 questions.

A Short Infomercial!!!

• We can bring this creativity seminar to your organization in either a half day or full day format.

• You can order the creativity cards at www.calliopelearning.com/store

Upcoming Seminars

• Client Appreciation Seminars will be held approximately 4 times a year

• We will be emailing out a short survey to gather ideas about future topics – leave us your biz card