creativity

BEING PLAYFUL AND EXPERIMENTAL TO CREATE AND INNOVATE
by Janet Sernack|06 September 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog
Growing up in the fashion industry, in 1980’s Paris, I forged an exciting global career and experienced, first hand, a diverse range of the most amazingly innovative fashion presentations ever.  It was the dawn of an explosive era where fashion...
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EFFECTING TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE AND LEARNING
by Janet Sernack|04 August 2021|Education blog, Leadership blog
I was privileged to attend one of the first Theory U; Presencing Leadership for Profound Innovation and Change Workshops presented by the Sloane School of Management, in Boston in 2008. This means that I have been able to observe, engage...
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RESKILLING AND UPSKILLING PEOPLE AND TEAMS
by Janet Sernack|07 July 2021|Collaboration blog, Education blog
The pandemic has increased the pace of change in a digitally accelerated world, and at the same time, it is forcing organisations, leaders, and teams to become more purposeful, human, and customer-centric. Where managing both the future and the present...
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MANAGING BOTH THE FUTURE AND THE PRESENT
by Janet Sernack|02 June 2021|Collaboration blog, Education blog
In the first blog in our latest series, “Developing a human-centric future fitness focus”  we shared the three characteristics that offer senior executives a “unique unfreezing opportunity” from the COVID-19 hiatus. These involved developing a future-ready company that builds upon...
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INNOVATION TEAMS DONT INNOVATE!
by Janet Sernack|11 March 2021|Collaboration blog, Education blog
In last month’s blog, we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration, and described the range of emerging new, inspirational, and adaptive models that lean into complexity and catalyse and embed sustainable innovative workplace culture change. Where some...
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Catalysing change through innovation teams
by Janet Sernack|29 January 2021|Collaboration blog, Education blog
What makes Israel so innovative? And what has this got to do with teaming? One of the key discoveries, we made, almost ten years ago, when we relocated to Israel, was the power of its innovation eco-system – the result...
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QUANTUM PHYSICS, CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
by Janet Sernack|25 November 2020|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
Guest blog by Trishna Patnaik - What is quantum physics, and how dos it relates to creativity, innovation, and consciousness? Quantum physics is a branch of physics also known as quantum mechanics or quantum theory. Mechanics is that part of...
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CONTROLLING THE CONTROLLABLES
by Janet Sernack|05 October 2020|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
A recent article by McKinsey and Co “COVID-19: Implications for business”  describes a paradoxical dilemma for managers: the need to process both the rapid changes in AI, digitization, automation, and the uncertainty of the Covid-19 crisis. Both of these are...
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Responding to COVID-19 and future challenges
Responding to COVID-19 and future challenges
by Janet Sernack|31 August 2020|Education blog, Leadership blog
In our blog “Leading and Managing Transitional Change” we described how leaders could help their people to transition through the fears and challenges they are experiencing as a result of the disruptive COVID-19 pandemic, by cultivating their mental toughness. This...
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Agility
LEADING AND MANAGING TRANSITIONAL CHANGE
by Janet Sernack|04 August 2020|Education blog, Leadership blog
In our last blog “Leading and managing human transitions through disruption and adversity,” we described the importance of leaders and managers becoming more generous, tolerant, caring, empathic not only with themselves, and also with others they interact with. Describing how...
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