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100 Ways to Be More Creative on the Job

Are you stuck on what to do next on your portal, what API to create using your OPAC, what to post to your library website/blog today?

I had a fun time doing a creativity workshop at SLA where we explored ways to embrace and encourage our own creativity through play and working the less used portions of our brains and consciousness.

I loved this posting from The Heart of Innovation Blog.

100 Ways to Be More Creative on the Job

Print it out and post it over your desk. Try each one at least once over three months and see if you're more creative at the end. I think you will be.

I have a lot of deliverables like speeches, presentations, white papers, workshops, columns, blog postings, and articles. All of these require that I rise above writer's block and feeling uninspired to get done. I do find that my creativity is unblocked by the following:

a. Touring an art gallery
b. Visiting a museum
c. Sitting in a garden in bloom
d. Walking through a neighbourhood
e. Listening to my iPod
f. Talking to kids
g. Listening to seniors' stories
h. Write a blog posting
i. Play with the cat (or dog)
j. Read a poem (I like haiku since I have a short attention span)
k. Watch a short YouTube video
l. Call a friend I haven't talked to in a while
m. Go to a play
n. Go to a concert
o. Ask youself how your issue is like an alligator, rose or skunk.

Some of this stuff is just about being balanced. Maybe balance is a prerequisite to creativity.

What works for you?

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).