For many, the New Year represents an opportunity for change. Whether that’s at the personal level with resolutions that require a change in habits, like losing weight or getting a promotion, or at the team level with new initiatives or objectives. Once you decide to make a change, the question…

3 Tips to Get Your Time, Energy and Creative Mojo Back When You Feel Time-Starved These three tips will help you get back more of your time, energy, and creative mojo, especially if you feel time-starved, overworked, or like you are spinning your wheels. #1 Ditch the To-Do Lists for…

Brainstorms are important and an easy way to get everybody together to collaborate, discuss, debate, and ultimately, innovate. But sometimes, you come out of them feeling as if you didn’t get the ideas that you needed, or that the same ideas were being rehashed, or that it was a complete…

#1 Your muscles are weak: Your brain, while not technically a muscle, acts like one. The more you exercise your mind the stronger it gets, the more you don’t the weaker it gets. This is especially true for your innovation muscles. The more you intentionally exercise your innovative mind and give it creative fuel, the…

Be honest, how many things are you doing right now while reading this article? Listening to a podcast and checking email? Talking to a friend? Or perhaps you are texting about tonight’s dinner and switching from tab to tab online? I get it, you have a lot to do and…

There are 4 main reasons why your efforts to be an innovator and to build a culture of innovation often fail (and a few hints to avoid them): #1 You’ve implemented a process-first innovation effort that only leads to “launch and abandon” because you lack buy-in and longevity. People first…

“Stability breeds efficiency and complacency. Instability breeds resilience and innovation” Given we are in a sustained period of instability, how as leaders do we dial up the resilience and innovation, without burning out ourselves or the teams we lead? How do we leverage the instability to build resilience and innovation…

I’M STUCK! It happens to me all the time. That sticky challenge keeps finding its way back… …the problem I can’t seem to solve becomes a brick wall I can’t get over… …or my mind just gets stuck in a loop of incremental ideas. People ask me all the time…

If you are a leader inside a company, what do you do to ensure your employees feel invested in when they aren’t at a live conference? If you are an association, what do you do to stay relevant and present with your members when you can’t gather them in person…