Creativity, Intuition and Performance: Tools and Techniques for Facilitating Personal Excellence

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Overview: The holy grail of organizational excellence is often considered to be the twin human capacities of creativity and intuition. Organizations clearly need fresh creative ideas constantly to stay competitive, to create new markets, to gain and retain new clients, and to be respected in the capital markets. But at a time of massive global economic uncertainty, and a "bunker mentality" present in many organizations, the very creativity and intuition needed to bring new solutions and fresh ideas is often squelched by the drone of stress and desperation.

Ground-breaking work done over the past 25 years at HeartMath, an innovative research and training center near Silicon Valley, has shaped new understandings of the roots of creativity and intuition and how to increase their presence in our lives. Bruce Cryer's 15-year association with the Stanford Business School and extensive work with clients on four clients, has led to the development of key principles for developing creativity and intuition. His personal stories and examples will inspire you to reach beyond the mundane tasks of your job and help you regain the vision and inspiration that brought you into your work. This presentation will explore the scientific model of human flourishing and its relevance to the demands on people in organizations today, as well as case studies which will help listeners be inspired to experiment.

Why should you attend: Creativity is not just the domain of the artists, poets, and visionaries in society. Intuition is not reserved for psychics or those who follow their "sixth sense". Both these capacities can be developed and increased in anyone, with great benefit to our performance and wellbeing. In our generation, Steve Jobs is the ultimate example of someone who was considered not only extremely creative but also capable of intuiting the needs of customers who didn't even have his products yet.

Certainly his example is once in a generation, but what principles can be learned to develop more creativity and intuition in our own lives? What gets in the way of developing more creativity and intuition? Why don't we trust our intuition more, or give energy to creative impulses when they bubble up? Stress is clearly one of the prime disablers of creative and intuitive capacities. Stay stressed and you're almost guaranteed to live well below the threshold of your creative and intuitive potentials. In this program you will learn fundamental tools and principles to ensure you are rising above the "small stuff" and engaging the creative ideas and intuitive solutions to navigate through an uncertain rapidly changing future. You will learn how to avoid common traps most businesspeople (especially leaders) fall into that block these capacities. You will leave inspired and eager to learn more.

Areas Covered in the Session:
What is Creativity and Intuition, and can anyone develop them?
Essential psycho-physiological principles of brain function
Key tools and principles to develop your own creative and intuitive capacities
Case studies and stories
Next steps

Who Will Benefit:
Anyone in an Organization today
Strategic Planners
Product Developers
Graphic Designers and Marketers
HR Directors
OD directors and Consultants
Leadership Consultants
Management Consultants
Entrepreneurs

Bruce Cryer is Global Director, HeartMath HealthCare, founding director of HeartMathUK and HeartMath South Africa, and co-founder of What Makes Your Heart Sing. For eleven years he served as CEO at HeartMath (USA), an innovative research-based firm offering scientifically-validated products and award-winning technology to boost performance, productivity and health while reducing stress.

Bruce's clients include Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, the NHS (UK), HP, NASA, Boeing, L'Oreal, and the Samueli Institute. He is co-author of the book "From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance" and the Harvard Business Review article "Pull the Plug on Stress". Bruce has been a faculty member of the Stanford Executive Program since 1997 and was named a Top 50 Thought Leader in Personal Excellence. He has been interviewed for or written in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, Fast Company, Modern Healthcare, Leadership Excellence, and medical journals such as Stress Medicine as well as many other business and health publications. A series of major health challenges convinced Bruce to transition to a variety of new roles more closely matching his passions. A former actor/singer/dancer on Broadway, he has even revived his singing and dancing skills as a "keynote performer" helping audiences align your work with what is most alive and inspired in your heart.