Is your pitch as great as your idea?
Have you ever gone into a meeting ready to share your great idea — only to have it brutally shot down? A couple weeks ago, I wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review about honing your...
View Article15 tips to help novice public speakers nail their next presentation
“Never leave a table between you and your audience. Invite them out from behind the table. Print out your presentation and stick it on the wall like a “storyboard,” and walk the walls with your...
View Article16 practical ways leaders can refine their communication skills
“How do you know there are 30 days in September? Do you remember the rhyme? Count your knuckles? Close your eyes and see a calendar with “30” on it? Why is this important? Because in every meeting,...
View Article3 ways to tap into emotion during a pitch
Have you ever pitched something you knew was great, only to have it shot down? In my time as the head of creativity and innovation at Disney, I spent nearly all day, every day pitching ideas and...
View Article3 Ways to Kindle Creativity in Your Organization
Don’t be afraid of big ideas. Particularly in the brainstorming phase of a project, it’s easy to favor efficiency and shrink ideas down to a more manageable size. But this short-circuits creativity...
View Article6 simple ways to awaken your team’s full creative potential
As Disney’s former Head of Creativity and Innovation, I helped to identify its barriers to innovation – and adopt mindsets conducive to no-limits thinking. A concept that I’ll be unpacking next month...
View ArticleHow to Network in the Age of Remote Work
Watercooler chats, lunchroom brainstorms, and post-work happy hours may be becoming a thing of the past, but for digital-native employees, there are actually more chances to network than there have...
View ArticleWant Your Team to Excel? Play Games With Them (Yes, Games) to Advance Their...
You might feel like it’s odd to bring the world of gaming into your company. However, gamification is clearly a winning solution if you want to keep engagement, performance, innovation and development...
View Article4 Ways to Bring Your Team Back From the Brink of Innovation Extinction
Innovation often seems constrained by not enough time and resources — but really, it’s a lack of playfulness that prevents our best ideas from emerging. Entrepreneurs often assume that the biggest...
View ArticleWhy being emotional is a good thing as a manager
Instead of assuming that you’ll just never be able to understand the latent needs and insights of your team, think again. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be able to do many things, but one thing’s...
View ArticleHow To Move From A Monotonous To A Creative Mindset
When you go to your favorite restaurant, do you read the menu, listen to the specials and still order the same thing? Do you sleep on the same side of the bed each night, even when you’re staying in a...
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