Working on Your Creativity Muscle

How to improve your creativity and become more innovative in your organization.

Bill Evans

Bridge Design

San Francisco

Who wants to be more creative?

Risk Failure:high, medium or low risk experience?

Risk Failure:what you just promised

Learn to Draw

Representative Realistic

Left Brain

Logical

Sequential

Rational

Analytical

Objective

Looks at parts

Right Brain

Random

Intuitive

Holistic

Synthesizing

Subjective

Looks at wholes

No Brain

Learn to draw:and you learn to see things more as they are

Do a creativewriting class

Do a creative writing class:and you’ll improve the way you

observe and understand things as well as the way you try and communicate

these things to other people.

Do an Improv workshop

Its not stand-up comedy

Listening is more than simply not talking when the other person is

talking:

How is what you do next, after they finish talking, influenced by what they just said or have said previously? (exactly like

the Story-line exercise from a minute ago)

It looks and feels like ordinary conversation but it isn’t

Do an Improv workshop:and you’ll become a better listener (and

observer but we didn’t get to that exercise today…)

Play improvised music with other people

You got to sing like you don't need the moneyLove like you'll never get hurt

You got to dance like nobody's watchin’It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.

"Come From The Heart" by Susanna Clark & Richard Leigh

Play improvised music with other people:

..and learn the power of non-verbal communication in creativity and life

Creativity and innovation are risky but potentially rewarding activities that are very paradoxical:

You risk rejection –to get accepted

You’ve got to let go – to catch something

Don’t forget the promise you made….

email me with your experiences and feedback .

The presentation is on my blog http://www.bridgedesign.com/blog/