July 11, 2009 - Saturday
Creative Innovation Boot Camp featuring Peter McLaughlin on the "The 12 rules of creative innovation"
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CatchFire! Igniting Energy and Performance
Once upon a time, a court jester was joking in front of the king. But he went too far in chiding the royal family, so the king, who was in a bad mood already, ordered him killed.
The guards started to carry him off when a member of the court interceded on the jester’s behalf.
“Good king, this fool, (as court jesters were called in those days,) has served you well for forty years, he has made us all laugh even in the most difficult times. He has been our source for creativity and innovation – surely you will change your mind and let him live.”
“I can’t take back my word,” responded the monarch. “I am a divine right king and what I say is immutable, so, unfortunately, he must die. But because he has been a good court jester, I will allow him to choose the way he would like to die.”
The calm fool bowed slightly and said, “Sire, if it’s all the same to you, I should like to die of old age.”
In the middle ages, the role of the fool was built into the royal structure; it called for a person who could help the king see different points of view and keep the court on their toes. We don’t have that person in the corporate structure of today, and we need it…not someone who does all the creative thinking him or herself, someone who knows how to motivate everyone in the organization to begin thinking about innovation.
EVENT: Creative Innovation Boot Camp
DATE: July 11, 2009 - Saturday
TIME: 08:30am-10:00am
LOCATION: Wolf Law Building, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder, CO 80309 (Corner of Baseline & Broadway)
DIRECTIONS: Driving Directions
COST: $119, Members: $79, SuperMembers: Free
PHONE: 303-666-4133
TOPIC: Creative Innovation Boot Camp featuring Peter McLaughlin on the "The 12 rules of creative innovation"
SPEAKER: Peter McLaughlin
SPEAKER: Peter McLaughlin
Director of Mirth™ and Innovation
Peter McLaughlin is a reporter of new and cutting edge information to help you improve your personal life and business performance.
His goal is to translate science-based research in ways that will help you and your colleagues achieve greater life satisfaction. Some of his "stuff" you already know, but haven't been paying attention to.
Peter gives you new ideas from his research in Positive Psychology; how to build more optimism and happiness into each day with the goal of living a life of fulfillment.
As Director of Mirth™ and Innovation, he won't let you forget to search for more creativity and fun in your personal and business life.
Peter coaches healthy lifestyles to help you CatchFire! with new, unbounded and positive energy.
He has developed a toolbox of great ideas, both ancient and new, to help you and the people around you move through the maze of 21st Century challenges and opportunities.
Peter McLaughlin’s mission in life is to help people maximize their productivity and quality of life. A poll conducted among top corporations named Peter McLaughlin, along with Tom Peters and Peter Drucker, as one of the best business speakers in the nation. (Source: The Journal of Business Strategy)
Peter is the author of two books: "CatchFire!" - Random House 1999; and "Mentally Tough" - M. Evans, 1989. His books and CDs have been published in seven countries.
What You Will Learn
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According to Yoshiro NakaMats, owner of over 3,000 patents, "Systematic Innovation is the purposeful and organized search for changes."
In this workshop you will learn:
- A brief overview of a four quadrant metaphor for how the brain works.
- How creativity/innovation lurks in all parts of the brain: right, left; abstract and practical.
- What creativity is and a practical process for achieving innovative ideas.
- The 12 rules of creative innovation (example: Rule 7, From Hindquarters to Headquarters — Create a New Environment, Recreate your Brain).
- How to become a team of 24/7 creative innovation.
- Why optimism and fun are essential... i.e. Tom Sawyer and Aunt Polly's fence
- What physical exercise is a precursor to creativity.
AGENDA
8:00 - 8:30 - Registration
8:30 - 9:00 - Welcome and Introductions - Thomas Frey
9:00 - 10:00 - What creativity is and a practical process for achieving innovative ideas - the case for napkins, cartoons, exercise balls and long rods... How your knowledge of Brain Styles frees you up, and helps you convince people who don't see themselves as creative. I call this "Whole Brain Creativity." - Peter McLaughlin
10:00 - 10:15 - Break
10:15 - 11:15 - The 12 rules of creative innovation - there can be no rules for creativity; so I've created twelve... Rule thirteen: wear a Hawaiian shirt. (I would also add, Drink Wine, but it's too early.) The importance of "ritual" in getting ready for creativity. "We prepare a face to meet the faces we will meet." TS Eliot... innovation precludes angry faces... Peter McLaughlin
11:15 - 11:30 - Break
11:30 - 12:30 - How to become a team of 24/7 creative innovation - keeping in mind Marshall McLuhan's warning that "the price of eternal vigilence is indifference." ...Setting the environment, because we act differently in court or church versus when we are at a bar or a football game. - Peter McLaughlin
12:30 - 12:35 - Final wrap-up - Thomas Frey
