by Jennifer Phillips | Jan 22, 2022 | Creativity, News Updates |
When You Need Creative Problem-Solving I presented a session last fall at the state of Washington’s annual improvement conference titled Quick and Easy Creativity Techniques to Get Unstuck. The participants were from public agencies and other organizations in need of... 
by Jennifer Phillips | Nov 11, 2021 | Creativity, News Updates, Resources |
Get Creative with Constraints There’s a quote out there in the Internet world that I’ve pinned and come back to periodically: Creativity is subtraction. This is a concept I find useful to remember in my writing, work and everyday life. Imposing constraints is one way... 
by Jennifer Phillips | Aug 31, 2021 | Creativity, News Updates |
Everyday Creativity: Use Seven Ways to Get Unstuck One of my favorite ways to try busting through roadblocks is to generate at least seven alternatives (bonus points for even more ideas). The reason for 7+ ideas is that the first few typically are the usual... 
by Jennifer Phillips | Jun 25, 2021 | Creativity |
An Update on Time Savings In a recent post, I ask what you’d do with more time, shared some ways to swap time wasters with activities that really matter and shared a bit about my own quest as an improvement geek by day applying this to my own life. I’m... 
by Jennifer Phillips | Apr 15, 2021 | Creativity |
How Would You Use More Time? What would you do you with an extra 5 minutes a day? Maybe you have an immediate answer. Maybe it seems like a pittance and why bother. But how about when that adds up to 30 hours a year? Or let’s go wild and save 30 minutes a day, or 3... 
by Jennifer Phillips | Mar 15, 2021 | Creativity |
Check Out These Writing Prompts I’m always looking for ways to juice up my creativity. If this describes you, here’s a blog post from the Storyteller Academy with six prompts to overcome writers’ block. I actually use techniques like these in my day job as a...