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Creativity is a leadership mindset as much as it is a skill - and you can learn it
Do you feel like a creative dunce? Do you think that creative people are born with talent, and you’re just not one of them? Author, speaker, and creative powerhouse Kieran Flanagan breaks a few myths and lets us know we can all be commercially creative if we’re prepared to do the work.
Why you should listen: leadership frameworks for creative processes
Learn the number one strategy to generating awesome ideas
How to develop creative judgment
How to know you’ve got an idea that really hits the mark: Listen for the ‘ahhhs’
Don’t go into brainstorming cold - you need mental fodder
We explore: key distinctions for a leadership mindset that masters creativity
Why creativity is not artistry, but really about problem-solving
Creativity is a skill, not a talent, and is about a lot of really hard work
The difference between re-hashing and being ‘different enough’
Commercial creativity is about being in service to helping others solve problems
The biggest creative exercise is identifying the gap between where you are and where you want to be, and then creating beliefs, systems, and structures to help bridge that gap
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About Kieran Flanagan:
Co-Founder of the Impossible Institute Kieran Flanagan shares key distinctions for a leadership mindset that masters creativity
Kieran Flanagan is the Co-Founder of the Impossible Institute. She is a speaker, trainer, and author who helps organisations and individuals harness the commercial power of creativity and drive change (not just react to it).
Rated in “the top 25 C-Suite Speakers to watch,” by Meetings & Conventions USA, Kieran helps the leaders, teams, and organisations she works with to be commercially creative and to change their thinking in order to change their results.
Kieran was one of the youngest Creative Directors to lead an award-winning agency. She was behind the most successful product launch in Australian history, has headed up Australia’s premiere creative school, won awards all over the planet for her thinking and effectiveness and is on the faculty at Thought Leaders International.
Kieran has had her thinking published in over a hundred titles all over the globe. She has worked with many of the biggest companies and brands on the planet. She has appeared on tv and radio. Her latest book, co-authored with Dan Gregory, Forever Skills, looks at what won’t change in a world changing at a mind boggling rate.
Check out her website.
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.