Dynamism at Work

Done with Boring? Research shows that talking heads and voluminous slide decks won't get you to innovation when you want to create strategy.  Sadly, your team will only regurgitate old ideas out of that deadly brain fog. No need to get depressed, now YOU can... Create Dynamism! We've been percolating & testing new ways to Up Your Creative Genius in team workshops for some time. This week we launched our Building A Dynamic Workshop board game that you can use to create your offsite and come up with awesome and engaging design!  I use it every chance I get.  This week, I worked with a leader using the game to design a 1/2 day session with her leaders that used a variation on the board game Clue to up their detective skills so they could solve the mysteries of their management structure!    Designing your next strategy, vision, process improvement or conversation-filled offsite should be engaging and fun. This board game helps you involve your client design team in the design and delivery of each part of your team workshop. Why not bring out and build the creative genius in everyone? This is a perfect tool for learning and development, HR, OD, or admin/associates and business consultants!  Don't let your eyes roll back in your head when the event planning falls on your shoulders!  Arm yourself with an awesome Creative Genius Toolkit! You can do it!  I believe in YOU!   Create a Dynamic Workshop   ON SALE NOW! $250   This digital, downloadable kit will raise your acumen in developing highly engaging meetings, through a step-by-step guide. You’ll create amazing, hands-on workshops that will leave your participants wanting more! Get ready to show up as the Creative Genius you are. Tip of the Week   Ageing Is The New Black Aging is the new black. As you age, you come into yourself and learn to live life to the fullest, embracing everything you are. How AWESOME is that? No matter what age you are now, embrace the ageing process, and recognise yourself as the beautiful person you are. #CreativeGeniusYOU Creative Genius YOU Medallions! Wondering what to get your team or team mate for the holidays? Why not a Creative Genius YOU medallion? These talisman's are each hand-crafted from sterling silver by Sandra Lewis.

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Open the Door & Let You In

Be honest. You want change and yet somehow it never seems to happen... Easy enough. Fast enough. Good enough. Timely enough. Long enough. What if you could change anything in a minute? Would you? I bet 100% of you would say yes. But only 10% of you will actually do something to make that change happen. Become that 10% right now. It only requires two things -  1. Using your imagination, (aka your #creativegenius), and 2. Opening a door. Start here Think of that dream you've been having of something you want to change - where you really want to make a shift. Got it? Now, imagine, out of the blue, the best thing happening to you -  you get the promotion, you drop 20 lbs., your bank account fills with cash. Let go of worrying how you are going to get there or how used to do it or what happened to you in the past and focus on the inner pictures of how you want it to be right now. STAY FOCUSED. Add a little more detail.  What's different in this new picture? How are you different in this picture?  Focus on the best case scenario, and the best you in that scenario. Now smile. Literally smile.  Smiling opens your heart, which opens the door to let in that best self, that best scenario, that goodness that you truly are. This week make a conscious effort to hold the door open for someone else every time you have the opportunity. As you hold that door open, smile. Then remind yourself you are letting in more and more of your best life, your best #leadership, your best partnering ability, your most abundant self, your best #creativegeniusyou. Keep track of what happens and be that 10% who is consciously making change. HIGHLIGHT ON YOU: Here's a note I got this week from someone who watched Draw Your Future  "About one year ago I happened upon your TedX video. Your story and your work has changed my view of the world and how it works, I believe that everything is possible - more and more…" - Naples, Florida  :) When you feel stuck, go back to the basics. Set your dial to "positive", Do Good, Be Good and watch how it opens the door for you. THE GIRL EFFECT DRAWING THEIR FUTURE Now is the time for you to get behind the things you believe in.  Here's one of my things that I'm rolling up my sleeves over. STATS ARE YOU SENDING MIXED MESSAGES AS A LEADER? This week focus your body language. It's not just what you say, it's all of who you bring into the room. Here's proof. SHOUT OUT JULIE RAY Here's one of those draw your picture stories. I needed a project manager. I drew this and when Julie signed up formy graphic recording class, she was a seasoned PM willing to do a trade. Thanks universe!

APPRECIATING THE LITTLE GUY IN ALL OF US This week I was traveling for a conference and I had to take a cab to the airport. If you don’t travel a lot, you may not know that there’s a current war on between the black car service drivers and taxicab drivers. Companies like Uber have figured out a way to make black car cushy transport easier. I’ve tried it and I realized I prefer riding with the cab drivers because they seem like the little guy in this situation. Many cab drivers are new to our the country and are learning their way around. I want to help. So when I walked out of my hotel and a black car drove up and told me he would give me the same price for a ride as the taxicab, I waved him on and got into the taxicab behind him.  The black car driver got mad about it, but he was waiting in a taxicab station, which isn't allowed.  When I told the cabbie why I passed up that black car to ride with him, naturally we became fast friends! I found out my new friend was originally from Antigua. Then we proceeded to have the GREATEST conversation.  We talked about traffic and how it tests you to see if you’ll do the “right thing” or not.  My driver told me a story about how he wouldn’t let a woman cut into line in front of him and almost got beat him for it. (and he was a big guy).I shared about the time someone behind me got so tired of cars cutting into line at the last minute (while the rest of us had been waiting for an hour), that he pulled over into that lane and simply stopped traffic, forcing them to creep along with the rest of us. We laughed and admitted that we'd been those cars cutting in too, sometimes. Then our conversation went from great to fantastic. He and I began listing all the career paths we had taken and we found that many of the industries we'd worked in overlapped - #business, #healthcare, #art.  We’d walked over so much common ground that we both became giddy appreciating our timely connection. In the last few moments, he turned his mirror so he could look me in the eyes and confided that he felt he had never really been able to reach what he was capable of and didn’t know why. This was soul to soul, sharing truth. Well, you can guess what happened next; naturally I shared the vision to reality process with him. I handed him my business card so he’d know how to watch that TEDx talk #DrawYourFuture, and a HUcard fell out of my wallet at the same time. That must have been meant for him too, so I handed it to him as well.  “When you feel down, or worried, sing HU”, I explained, “it’s a sacred word as old as time that will help to remind you that you are a spiritual being, capable of anything you desire.” We parted ways with a profound appreciation for each other’s gifts and stories, and for that wonderful thread that weaves through everything, connecting us to new friends everywhere, in every moment.   This week take time to appreciate the little guys in your world (that means you too) and honor those interactions as an opportunity for connection. Wherever you go,#lead the charge and give love, be love. Thanks for reading #creativegeniusyou, Love, Patti CREATIVITY SYMPOSIUM FREMONT ABBEY ARTS CENTER Join me June 7th from 10AM - 3PM The Creativity Symposium for Puget Sound Entrepreneurial Women is a one day conference event for entrepreneurial women to unleash their joy and creativity through speakers, workshops, mastermind circles, and networking. #womencreativesunite HEALTHCARE EDUCATORS ROCKIN' H2P CONSORTIUM When educators get together to get things done, things happen. Thanks for inviting me to illustrate your brilliance. You are amazing and thank you for transforming education. #educationtransformation SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL 43RD BIENNIAL CONVENTION Early warning!  I'll be speaking in Vancouver at this event! If you don't know about the amazing things the Soroptimist International are doing for women around the world, now is the time to get online and find out.They are a force to be supported. Send your friends to draw their dreams into reality in Canada!