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Creativity and Problem Solving Through Low Tech
As technology takes over more of our lives, there is one skill a machine just cannot compete with...creativity. According to The World Economic Forum's recently released report, The Future of Jobs, that skill has moved from 10th place in 2015 to #3 in 2020. This is...
Creativity and Problem Solving Top Job Skills for the Future
According to the World Economic Forum's "Future of Jobs Report", creativity and problem solving are listed in the top three skills that employees will need by 2020. Critical problem solving is one of the most important attributes that employers look for in a new hire...
Innovation in Home Care
I was pleased to be the innovation keynote speaker recently at the Rocky Mountain Home Care Conference in Beaver Creek. The topic "Turning Your Employees Into Problem Solvers" was well received by a packed crowd of people in the home care and hospice industry. ...
Innovations in the Fire Industry
Last month I had the pleasure of being the innovation keynote speaker for the Southeast Michigan Fire Chiefs Association on "Fire Industry Leadership in the Age of Disruption". It was an honor to be among so many heroes, and what I didn't know is that 69% of all...
Why Associations Need to Innovate
Associations are a legacy business, like newspapers, and the TV industry. And they have all enjoyed many years of success without being challenged...until now. Early roots of associations could be found in craft guilds, churches, and trading groups. Guilds were...
The Creativity Gap Between Management and Employees
The creativity gap between management and employees keeps getting wider. As a creativity keynote speaker I'm hired to get employees excited about creativity and innovation. By the end of the speech, which is a combination of creativity education, fun creativity...
How Creativity and Innovation Can Save Your Life
Lately I've been hooked on the Weather Channel's new show "SOS: How to Survive", where survival expert Creek Stewart teaches innovative skills to help you survive in a dangerous situation. Each episode is about real people caught up in true stories of life or death...
How to Kill Innovation – That’s The Way It’s Always Been Done
When I ask people why we still have daylight savings time, most shrug their shoulders and say "I don't know. That's the way it's always been done". I hear this a lot as an innovation keynote speaker. Many times systems are put into place for a particular reason, and...
Inventor of Scotch Tape – Richard Gurley Drew
As a creativity keynote speaker, one of the things I talk about is serendipity, or finding something valuable that you're not looking for. Scotch brand tape was one of those serendipitous ideas that was invented to solve one problem and ended up solving many more....