Consultant and educator and author of the demystifying and results oriented book Idea-Links: The New Creativity, Jim Link , describes how CEOs identify creativity as the key leadership competency, but have no idea how to develop creativity in their employees. Jim Link provides evidence that the concept of somehow unleashing creativity is the wrong approach. Instead, Jim Link offers the alternative idea of building creativity as a learned skill. Jim Link shares the techniques and disciplines necessary to developing creativity as a core skill. Instead of the traditional, and often misguided approaches to creativity, Jim Link presents a viable learning process that transforms creativity into another developed skill for all employees. Jim Link also shows how to utilize this new competency as a resource to solve specific problems that challenge the organization.
Jim Link is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, August 2, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Consultant and educator and author of the demystifying and results oriented book Idea-Links: The New Creativity, Jim Link , describes how CEOs identify creativity as the key leadership competency, but have no idea how to develop creativity in their employees. You will learn:
* Why CEOs consider creativity the most important leadership competency
* Why creativity is not something that can be unleashed or some eureka moment
* How to identify idea-links to boost your creativity thinking
* How to re-frame idea-links to find solutions to any problem
Jim Link (photo left) has a fascination with ideas began as a child when he would invent new products in his head, then record commercials for his ideas on an old tape recorder he found in the basement. "I've always had a deep fascination with ideas--how they happen, how to get more of them, and why some people generate them more easily than others. You might say I'm addicted to ideas, but in a good way."
Jim eventually turned his love of new ideas into a career at General Mills, where he led new product efforts in a variety of food categories. Seeking to spread his creative wings, Jim started his own idea company at the age of thirty-three. Since 1994, Jim has helped over seventy organizations generate, refine, and market new ideas. Through it all, Jim has chosen to remain a one-man shop, focusing on doing the work he loves.
Jim is an engaging teacher who conducts training workshops on creativity across the world. He is an instructor for 3M University and also teaches creativity as a guest lecturer at major universities.
An avid but shockingly unproductive fisherman, Jim lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with his wife and their three children.
My book review of Idea-Links: The New Creativity by Jim Link.
Listen live on Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern, 5:00 pm Pacific time.
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Let's talk consultant and educator and author of the demystifying and results oriented book Idea-Links: The New Creativity, Jim Link , as he describes how CEOs identify creativity as the key leadership competency, but have no idea how to develop creativity in their employees. Jim Link provides evidence that the concept of somehow unleashing creativity is the wrong approach. Instead, Jim Link offers the alternative idea of building creativity as a learned skill. Jim Link shares the techniques and disciplines necessary to developing creativity as a core skill. Instead of the traditional, and often misguided approaches to creativity, Jim Link presents a viable learning process that transforms creativity into another developed skill for all employees. Jim Link also shows how to utilize this new competency as a resource to solve specific problems that challenge the organization on Blog Business Success Radio.
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