Category Archives: Creativity

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Do you prefer Chaos or Order? Take the test!

chaos wordle

Take a look at these two wordles - which one contains the most words that you like or relate to - Picture A or Picture B? When you've decided follow the link to our Linkedin Careers Debate Poll and vote! UPDATE: 9 March - currently 90% of voters prefer (37%) or strongly prefer (53%) Wordle A ...

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Creating creative coaching sessions – Keyhole coaching

key hole coaching Dr Jim Bright

Are we stuck in rather unimaginative approaches to how we deliver coaching or counseling sessions?  How can we start creating creative coaching sessions? This post is prompted by Madeline Paterson who commented on my post Act before you think as follows: "I would be interested in hearing more about your thoughts on the tendency of our ...

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Confront the complex!: The Career Challenge of 21st century complexity

The history of mankind can be understood through our reactions to complexity in the pre-machine, primitive machine, industrial and information technology eras. In the the pre-machine era, complexity arose from our familiar surroundings and the challenge of feeding, nuturing and protecting ourselves and our groups.  The immediacy of these challenges and the limited opportunities or hazards ...

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Inspiration – the first step into creativity

Inspiration - the first step into creativity Inspiration is the starting point for creativity in the Beyond Personal Mastery® model. The inspiration step is all about getting ideas and experiences.  People cannot be creative, change or reinvent themselves unless they have some ideas or experience. The mind map below some ways in which people can boost their inspiration.   So ...

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Life Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes

Life Creativity - Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes I want to share with you my model of Creativity that provides practical steps to enhance Life and Career changes.  I will describe the model in this post, and in subsequent ones discuss each of the steps in greater detail. Here is the Beyond Personal Mastery® model.   Beyond ...

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The Day my Dog became a Triangle

triangle dog

The Day my Dog became a Triangle Dogs are not triangles.  Any fool knows this.  They don't even bother assessing this knowledge when they issue you with a dog license.  So it was very awkward indeed when my dog became a triangle. For a start her name is Chloe. This is less embarrassing to call out ...

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Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking

Bell shaped curve monster

Transform your career by shifting: Shift 9: From Normative Thinking To Normative And Scalable Thinking When I was a child, I didn't want to be with the other young kids in the shallow end of the pool, but I was also secretly too scared to want to be at the deep end where the cool kids ...

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