Creative Coaching Framework

Want more Innovation? Here is a Novel Idea!

October 12, 2025

In a host of conversations over the past few years, many people have shared with me a common challenge:  ‘How to consistently generate more innovation in my business and in my life?’   It can be a vexing problem…but it doesn’t have to be.  Three key points to jump spark the conversation: The driving force behind…

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Integrate Creative Thinking into your Weekly Schedule and Increase your Innovation Productivity

August 20, 2025

THE VICE gets us in his extreme time pressure iron grasp and squeezes us hard twice; he steals our precious time for creativity and then provides us with logical sounding excuses to boot:  ‘I just don’t have the luxury of time on my side to think about new ideas.’  I’ve got to focus on the…

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Strengthen Your Cognitive and Perceptual Flexibility by Leveraging the Powers of Prism

June 30, 2025

PRISM has the unique ability to stretch and flex his cognitive and perceiving thinking muscles to expand wide beyond current boundaries or to contract in between the lines.  This gives him the flexibility to cobble together new, and unique idea combinations.  Being a student of physics, he has keen insight and realizes that ideas have…

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Resist the Destructive Force of Status-Quo Thinking and Defeat Chameleon

May 16, 2025

CHAMELEON is true to her name and makes certain she fits in, conforms to the status quo, keeps her head low, follows the rules (loves checklists) and stays in her prescribed lane.  She does not challenge assumptions or ask why we do things the way we do.  She is very boring…quite stifling in fact, and…

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Leverage the Powers of Micro-Burst and Generate More Novel and Feasible Ideas

April 3, 2025

MICROBURST was born to run fast and exemplifies that Imagination will Prevail.  She has the unique Powers to rain and select novel and feasible ideas.  Being a prolific idea rainmaker, she significantly increases the odds of producing novel and feasible ideas because she generates an abundance of them.  She is cut from the cloth that…

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Leverage the Powers of Black Diamond and go after your Dream

March 13, 2025

BLACK DIAMOND has a built-in compass to consistently navigate competing challenges, Fight the Right Foe, outsmart and outmaneuver them.  Most often it is not a fair fight.  He uses facts, data and logic to choose which foes to fight.  He prioritizes the challenges that he has the energy, passion, expertise and resources to pursue, and…

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Conquer the Resistive Forces of The Delayers

February 5, 2025

THE DELAYERS are quite possibly the most stubborn and close to home Resistor of them all.  One that is quite personal, don’t you think?  ‘If only I had gone for the gold…had the nerve and taken the risk…studied more…worked out more…been luckier and gotten the breaks’…and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.  These…

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Leverage the Powers of Momentum and Xcelerate Your Concepts/Prototypes to Action

January 8, 2025

MOMENTUM is peerless in embodying The Power of Speed.  He has an irrepressible bias for action and Xcelerates viable concepts/prototypes to implementation.  He is optimistic, intuitive, versatile and enjoys humor (especially is own).  He tunes into what his head, heart and gut tells him, learns and adapts quickly.  Once a concept or prototype passes the…

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Get Creativity Fit and Conquer the Workplace Resistors of The Vice

December 5, 2024

THE VICE gets us in his extreme time pressure iron grasp and squeezes us hard twice time; he steals our precious time for creativity and then provides us with logical sounding excuses to boot:  ‘I just don’t have the luxury of time on my side to think about new ideas.’  I’ve got to focus on…

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Leverage the Unique Powers of Plusser and Strike Fear into The 3 Headed Gremlin

November 6, 2024

PLUSSER has the unique Powers to cobble together and Strengthen a Concept/Prototype.  She does this by taking the ideas from her sidekicks Micro-Burst and Prism and cobbles them into an actionable concept/prototype.  She then finds the plusses and potential in the concept/prototype, uses goal wishing to identify the drawbacks and generates options to overcome them.  The…

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