Creativity at Work: A Short Course from Seth Godin
38mBeginner2021-06-29
Authors
Seth Godin
Author, Entrepreneur, and Teacher
Course details
You are a creative person. Despite what your inner critic may have told you, you absolutely can solve complex business problems without a roadmap. The potential is there; whether or not you tap into it is up to you. In this concise course, Seth Godin—the author of 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, and The Practice—lays out how to help your team let go of the fears that hinder your creative progress and start creating work that matters. Learn how to combat preconceived notions about creativity, including the idea that creativity is a gift bestowed upon a select few. (Spoiler alert: it's not.) Discover how to tap into your team’s creativity by embracing the possibility of failure, cultivating practical empathy, and exploring the root causes of writer's block and impostor syndrome. Plus, get tips for making creative problem-solving a habit that sticks.
Skills covered
CreativityGraphic DesignProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
Think About What It Means to Be Creative
- Introduction - The urgent need for creativity
- What is creativity anyway
- Why is it so difficult at work
- Barriers that lie between you and value creation
- Bringing outside voices inside
- Developing practical empathy
- The difference between management and leadership
- Revolutions destroy the perfect before enabling the impossible
- The commitment to failure
- There s no such thing as writer s block
- Learning how to juggle
- Impostor syndrome is real
- Who becomes your competition
- And then doing it all again
- BONUS - ShipIt Journal