026: Structures for Creativity and Problem-Solving with Tim Hurson
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Master facilitator Tim Hurson shares some of his favorite insights and approaches for creativity and problem-solving.
You’ll learn:
1) The know-wonder and GPS tools for sparking additional creative ideas
2) The mighty benefits of the “third third” when coming up with creative ideas
3) A wonderfully obvious secret of productivity
Tim Hurson is a founding partner of thinkx intellectual capital (www.thinkxic.com), a firm that provides global corporations with training, facilitation, and consultation in productive thinking and innovation. He’s both a faculty member and Trustee of the Creative Education Foundation, and a founding director of Facilitators Without Borders.
Tim thinks the phrase “out of the box thinking” should be put back in the box and buried in a deep hole.
Items mentioned in the show:
- Facilitators Without Borders
- Think Better by Tim Hurson
- Never Be Closing by Tim Hurson
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
- Goran Ekvall’s work on organizational creativity
- The City & The City by China Mieville
- TimHurson.com
- Mindcamp.org creativity retreat
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, I think you're gonna enjoy this next guest. Tim Herson just has tons and tons of wisdom |
| 0:26.6 | and experience when it comes to facilitating teams coming up with smarter solutions, more creative ideas, both in terms of quality and quantity, and he shares |
| 0:38.1 | a bunch of great tidbits from that lifetime of experience. |
| 0:41.4 | So you're going to walk away with one the no wonder and |
| 0:44.6 | GPS tools for sparking additional creative ideas, two, the mighty benefits of |
| 0:49.3 | the third third of your creative ideas, and three, a wonderfully obvious secret to productivity. |
| 0:57.8 | A bit about Tim, he is the founding partner of ThinkX Intellectual Capital, a firm that provides global corporations with training, |
| 1:04.6 | facilitation, and consultation in productive thinking and innovation. |
| 1:08.5 | He's both a faculty member and trustee of the Creative Education Foundation and a founding director of facilitators without borders. |
| 1:16.6 | To check out the stuff mentioned on the show, some links and transcript, etc. That's over at awesome at your job.com |
| 1:24.8 | slash eep to six. |
| 1:26.8 | And if you want the goods from Tim faster |
| 1:29.8 | in a email you can read in two minutes or less, |
| 1:32.1 | sign up for the gold nugget email list over at |
| 1:34.4 | awesome at your job.com. Here's Tim. Tim, thanks so much for appearing here on the How to |
| 1:40.3 | Be Awesome at your job podcast. Nice to be here, Pete. |
| 1:42.8 | Thank you for asking me. |
| 1:44.3 | Oh, yes, certainly. |
| 1:45.8 | You've got a fun bio, but the thing that really grabbed my attention |
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