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Virtual Creativity

Responding to Covid-19 is creating profound challenges for creative businesses in managing the creative dimension in your

work, creating great ideas, getting the best out of your team, and motivating people spread across different locations.

 How do you get you, your team to deliver outstanding creativity during Lockdown?

 How do overcome the challenges created through Lockdown as well as seize the opportunities it presents?

 How can you build a creative team culture when the team are working from home?

 How can you create a competitive advantage by your response to these challenges?

Creativity in Lockdown is a new way to enable you to succeed in these difficult, disruptive times.

A. The days of working together, physically alongside fellow team members are currently gone (or at least severely

limited). In delivering creativity, you cannot make things happen by the sheer presence and energy of outstanding

talent pulling everyone else along. You cannot bluff or fudge your way through, just letting things happen by osmosis.

Working in isolated teams undermines sharing, tacit learning, stuff that is not written down but is instinctively

absorbed. Gone are the unconscious action learning, where you pick up knowhow by sitting alongside someone,

overhearing the conversations, observing the physical and non-verbal goings-on, the ‘development by earwigging’.

B. Being physically separated you create barriers to growing the soft skills of team cohesion, teambuilding, social capital;

just by simply being with each other creates a shared sense of togetherness, shared experiences and relationships.

You face a critical need to move to a higher level of collaborative working to ensure good partnership working internally

and externally.

C. There is also the profound issues of dangers to individual mental well-being and mindfulness that can be a downside to

working from home, which undermines self-belief and confidence that underpin delivering outstanding creativity.

D. Yet, there are also significant upsides to harnessing lockdown for creative performance. It creates new opportunities for

wider networking and better use of technology to aid agile and flexible thinking. Lockdown makes better use of times

when you need to act in isolation and has forced you to do some things you should be doing anyway.

E. Plus, there’s a first movers’ advantage: if you can respond more agilely and with tangible dividends you be one step

ahead of your competitors.

The way ahead

Creativity in Lockdown enables you and your team to be more capable, connected and confident by:

1. Being smarter on creative fundamentals. You need a better minimum skill level that know about core processes that

make creative, agile and flexible thinking, problem diagnosis and solving, idea nurturing and development happen.

2. Know your creative and collaborative personality profile to improve personal and team performance You need

greater mindfulness and purposefulness on how to manage motivating yourself and others, and how to optimise

collaborative working. how to manage yourself better. Understand better different strengths when inter-acting and

collaborating.

3. Use the new Listen:Connect:Do model that provides a better Lockdown-friendly Creative Toolkit with new Lockdownfriendly ways of doing, collaborating and team working. Making better use of isolation Better fluency in individual and

team working

4. More pro-active social capital building and team engagement activity. Use creative social-distance-friendly team

building and bonding activities to make the connections sweat harder and spark more frequently.

5. Combine greater structure with greater freedom - maximise resource for different stages of the creative dynamic,

seizing advantage of quality isolation time, even boredom to avoid downtime

6. Make Conversations work harder, make them more purposeful and build you listening, connecting and doing skills

7. Create a new vision and sense of purpose - the rocket fuel to inject greater meaning and purposefulness in what you

do to drive you through difficult times and overcome major obstacles

Session includes pre and post workshop 1:1 mentoring and coaching sessions with participants to ensure the content is tailored

to meet your specific needs and the new learning and tools are embedded in your on-going work.

Get in touch now to discover how Creativity in Lockdown enable you to overcome challenges and make the most of new

opportunities.