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Co-Create Creating Be!er Together
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Denise Jacobs UX Australia✶ Melbourne, Australia ✶ 24 August 2016
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@denisejacobs
@UXAustralia #UXAustralia
#createtogether
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Web Design/Dev à Creativity Evangelist
Photo by Derek Kearney
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à Founder + CEO, The Creative Dose
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It’s the new Black
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IBM CEO Study, 2010
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Most valued by co-workers
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A business imperative
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Adobe’s State of the Create Study
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Myth of the lone creative genius
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Who generates a lot of brilliant ideas
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Isolates and keeps us in silos
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Blending ideas and concepts
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Working together toward a common goal
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Unblock
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"The creative process involves many conversations…conversations with co-creators and colleagues, conversations with oneself…." – The team at the Dubberly Design Office (emphasis added)
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What blocks individual and collective creativity the most?
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Fears!
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Fear of being judged
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Fear of ideas being criticized
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Fear of not being perfect and making mistakez
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Fear of not being “enough”
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Fear of unique ideas
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Forms of the Inner Critic
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F.E.A.R. =
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Mind-body connection
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“Our bodies change our minds, our minds change our behavior, and our behavior changes our outcomes.” - Amy Cuddy, “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” TED talk
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Check your body language
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Try it: Power Pose Hack
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Fiero!
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Makes space for inspiration
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Experimentation mindset
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Ideas will start to flow
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Connect
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“Creativity is social….Instead (of brainstorming) you need “magic circles,” small teams of people who trust each other, are familiar with each other, and play together.” – Bruce Nussbaum, Creativity Intelligence
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More people: More creativity!
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“None of us is as smart as all of us.” – Ken Blanchard
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Keeping your ideas to yourself is detrimental
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Self-preserve or share knowledge?
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Share your ideas
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There’s a flip side
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You also need to LISTEN
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Over-talking = muting others
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1) Be present
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2) Pay a!ention
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3) Relax your own agenda
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Try it: Talk + Talk / Talk + Encourage
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Builds trust and sense of safety
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Combine
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Diversity of People = Diversity of Ideas
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“Creativity…thrives on diversity, tension, sharing, and collaboration.” - Stefan Klocek, “Be!er Together”
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Need everyone
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Complementary roles and responsibilities
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Respond and adapt to create
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Try it: Story by Suggestion
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1. Pomegranate 2. Pencil 3. Bread 4. Taxi 5. Ceiling 6. Cards 7. Bo!le 8. Flower
1. Fly 2. Run 3. Suggest 4. Type 5. Develop 6. Move 7. Play 8. Speak
Words to Suggest: Listener #1
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1. Screen 2. Glasses 3. Sweater 4. Paper 5. Candle 6. Book 7. Watch 8. Ki!en
1. Sing 2. Sit 3. Ask 4. Place 5. Write 6. Sleep 7. Jump 8. Cry
Words to Suggest: Listener #2
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Play
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“Play is how we invent and experiment.” – Josh Clarke, “The Web Gets Real” talk
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Improve with Improv
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Amplify the ideas of others
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“Plussing”
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1) Start where you are
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2) Accept the offer
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3) Fully commit
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4) The response is always
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5) Make your colleagues look good
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Try it: Six Person Sentence
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Group contribution = best outcomes
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Design an environment for co-creation
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Provide proper outlets
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Public space for ideas
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“Co-creation needs externalized material. Sharing the fuzzy, early, raw concept gives your (team) material to work with, to respond to and evolve.” – Stefan Klocek, “Be!er Together”
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Encourage “stupid” ideas
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They may be the best ones!
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Post ideas to allow them to grow and develop
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Have both si!ing and standing space
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Create a locus where people + ideas can mix and mingle
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Collaborate at every stage of a project
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Co-Create!
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A new paradigm
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Tried to do it all by ourselves
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Trying to think and be clever
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Time to up-level our creativity
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What are we ultimately shooting for?
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Not
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But instead
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My Thought-Leader crush: Umair Haque
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Be!erness? Be!erness!!
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“The sum total of human effort can add up to not merely more, but to Be!er.” – Umair Haque, Be!erness: Economics for Humans
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Develop an openness to differences
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Strong bonds form amongst the group
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It starts with You
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“Collaboration flourishes when there is a willingness to embrace new practices and thinking.” - Nic Evans, “How to Collaborate: The Creative & the Practical”
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Tap into collective brilliance
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Co-create to make be!er things
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And most importantly, to
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…Together!
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THE CREATIVE DOSE A Creativity + Innovation Collective
Creative Thinking + Problem-solving
Creative Collaboration Team Communication + Cohesion
Professional Development + Speaking Coaching
TheCreativeDose.com@thecreativedose
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My upcoming book!
Banish Your Inner Critic
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Identify and Eliminate Mental Blocks to Unleash Creativity
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Connect, Chat, and Collaborate!
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Thank you!
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Barriers to creativity
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“Creativity is all about making connections and seeing pa!erns.” – Bruce Nussbaum, Creativity Intelligence
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(Psst! We are ALL creative!)
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Try it: No || Yes, but || Yes, and
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Ideas come from thinking time
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Collective creative ideas = Infinite
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Primary driver of achievement
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Not “More”
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Blend ideas
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“We are the creators of the future.” – Umair Haque, “How to Have a Year That Ma!ers”
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Sell your ideas
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Complementary roles and responsibilities
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Engaged = Creative
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So…this happened last year (!)
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More. Meaning.
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Do it with others
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“Only a reason has the magic to ignite, in the void, the spark; that comes to make a life feel that it has been more than accidents of fate colliding with chance.” – Umair Haque, “How to Create Your Reason”
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Lip service
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Instead of being supported
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Creativity gets shut down
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Having contributions valued
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Here be dragons
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Sacrifice creativity for control
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Unengaged talent
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Tinker
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It was a nice idea…
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“There can be no doubt: creativity gets killed much more o%en than it gets supported.” – Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School professor and Innovation
expert
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Teach and learn=Mentoring
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Creative? Me! Yes!
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Creative? Child, please
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Creative? Umm…maybe?
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TIME
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Article in NDC Magazine
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“Clarity brings about purpose, purpose brings about action, action brings about change.” Joel Yeo
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"Deciding how much time and money to give to a team or project is a judgment call that can either support or kill creativity." Teresa Amabile
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Time
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20% Time works when used
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Ask
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Petition/Demand
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Tools
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“Until you really learn a language it can’t teach you.” Douglas Crockford, The Good Parts, Trondheim Developer’s
Conference
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Construct
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