by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | May 1, 2020
Are you noticing the creativity that is being unleashed right now as people and teams and businesses are doing things differently and rising to the challenge of creating a new normal? I’m pretty confident that everyone reading this newsletter has experienced some form...
by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | Feb 24, 2020
So, there’s been a leadership change within your department and your new Executive Director has invited you to share the things that drive you crazy about your work, or outdated practices that you know are wasting of your time. What would the result be? A list of...
by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | Feb 3, 2020
Over the next decade, the world of work will be radically transformed. We’ve all heard the statistics about job losses due to automation over the next decade. It is predicted that by 2030 between 30% and 40% of current jobs will be lost to technology in various forms....
by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | Oct 1, 2019
Creative problem-solving requires us to use many different kinds of thought processes. It is not just about brainstorming and generating ideas. Creative outcomes are the result of a combination and integration of different kinds of thinking – generating ideas,...
by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | Sep 24, 2019
The dawn of the fourth industrial revolution has made creative thinking a CORE workplace activity.We have moved from a workplace paradigm where creativity for so long has been a ‘fringe’ activity (the marginalised, poor cousin of analytical thinking) into an era where...
by Dr Irena Yashin-Shaw | Aug 22, 2019
In a call centre for a major American bank, there were vastly different levels of productivity among the teams. Some teams just seemed to be able to handle calls so much faster. But why? They were all operating from the same script, working the same number of hours...
