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Improve R&D Creative Output and Innovation
Fully 50% of R&D scientists and engineers wrote that "other people" were the biggest help to their creativity at work—good work-place relationships. Another R&D scientist wrote that the biggest help to his creativity was when the boss left town—a poor relationship. It's important for the R&D team leader to have good relationships with work-place subordinates.

Question is: "What type of leader are you? What relationships do you foster?"

Improvisation Helps Children Learn
Improvisation helps children integrate concepts and helps them practice creative thinking skills by putting two or more ideas together to form something new. Listed are ten ways improv can help children.

How to Flourish in Your Writing
With three bonus writing prompts to stimulate your creativity.

Creativity Isn't Just About Having Good Ideas
That's just the surface level of creativity.

10 Ways to Chair Meetings to Foster a Creative Atmosphere
In business meetings, it's important to encourage a creative climate and it depends on the actions of the leader or chair person. Learn about creative business management.

Newsletter Archives : 2005 : July Issue 1

July 2005 Newsletter #1

"The muse is something that's outside of yourself, which provides inspiration and helps you get your creative work done." — Linda Dessau, Connect with Your Muse

In This Issue

July 2005 Journal
What's New @ the CP
Q & A: Help Along The Way

July 2005 Journal

by Chris Dunmire

What's Up Doc?
Do you know what a caret is? It's that wedge-shaped symbol (^) usually found above the 6 on your keyboard. You may see carret's popping up in your other e-mail newsletters to break up words that commonly trigger e-mail sp^am filters. Don't be alarmed if you start seeing carets growing around the Creativity Portal newsletter too. We'd hate to have our newsletter wrongly trapped along with a bunch of rabbits. Besides, everyone needs more veggies.

An Exercise to Stimulate Your Creativity
Two weeks ago I attended a workshop designed to "Stimulate Creative Thinking." Part of the presentation included information from the book "How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day" by Michael J. Gelb.

I'm still in the absorption stages from this workshop, but wanted to share this very cool opening exercise our group was encouraged to do. …

Remember what Chronic Creativity is?
In May's newsletter we wrapped up Angela Mack's inspiring Chronic Creativity article series. In case you've missed it, you can read the entire collection by clicking the above link.

I'm happy to announce that Angela just released an instrumental CD titled "Momentum" that will get your creative juices flowing! If you enjoy artists such as Yanni, Tran Siberian Orchestra, or Manheim Steamroller, you simply must go download and listen to a few of Momentum's songs from Angela's Web site. Track #1 (Momentum) is my favorite, and has been my theme song all week!

Chris Dunmire
Publisher, Creativity Portal

What's New @ the CP

Creative Independence Day Fun
For some of us, the Fourth of July holiday needn't be all about pretty pyrotechnics and war-mimicking thunder. It's a great time to reflect on our fre^edoms and enjoy summertime barbeques, family, and togetherness. It also presents many opportunities to express ourselves through bold colors, celebratory projects, and party favor fun!

Connect with Your Inner Artist
By Linda Dessau
In the "Roadblocks to Creativity" e-course, we look at the 7 most common things that block our creative expression. So, if we're "blocked" when we're facing those things, what are we like when we're fr^ee of them? Well, certainly we're connected to our "Inner Artist".

Keeping YOU and ME in the Loop!
An assortment of graphic and Web site design articles by Todd Bertsch featuring design perspectives, Web guidelines, and search engine optimization tips.

Unlocking Your Imagination
By Arthur Levine
In order to unlock our imaginations and realize the promise that each of us has to do more with our lives, we have to strip away years of inhibitions that have kept us from fulfilling our dreams.

Connect with Your Muse
By Linda Dessau
The muse is something that's outside of yourself, which provides inspiration and helps you get your creative work done. To have a connection with your muse you need to be tuned in to your inner voices. This is because a muse (even in the form of a coach) will not dictate, "Draw it this way", "Use this word", or "Here's the winning chord progression".

Q & A: Help Along The Way

Making 4th of July Parade Flags
Q: We're planning on attending our town's annual Independence Day parade and want to make our own novelty flags for the occasion. Do you have any ideas on how we can do this?

A: Of course we do! You'll find the answer on our Independence Day resource page, specifically in the Free Projects and Resources section.

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Next Kaizen-Muse™ Creativity Coach Training Begins Feb 15

Chris Dunmire By Chris Dunmire

I'll be available as a Master Coach to coaches-in-training in the next online and teleconference Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coach Training session beginning February 15, 2012.

If you're planning on taking this 17-week coach certification course with Jill Badonsky, MeD, and Robert Maurer, PhD, and want to work with me as your Master Coach, you can request me when you sign up. See you there!

Chris
Chris Dunmire, Editor-in-Creativity
Creativity Portal®