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How to be a better leader
To lead better, we must gain deeper self-awareness, compassion, and curiosity about the world around us.
Here are three steps we recommend starting with.
- Read “Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire and Thrive at Work” by Monica H. Kang to reimagine how you could lead with empathy, resilience, and creativity.
- Work through Rethink Worksheet 1 to understand who you spend time with and how you like to work and why.
- Listen to Dear Workplace by InnovatorsBox to reflect on how leading looks different in many organizations, environments, and as a person and why having many ways of leading matters.
- Use our "Innovators' Digital Playbook" to rethink how you guide your team in a hybrid workplace
How to be a better creative
To be more creative, we must stay courageous to let our curios and creative voices speak up and engage every day into our lives. Here are three steps we recommend starting with.
- Read “Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire and Thrive at Work” by Monica H. Kang reimagine how you could be creative with empathy, courage, and curiosity every day no matter where you work.
- Work through Innovation Worksheets to understand how you like to practice creativity, stand up to failure, and express your creativity.
- Print out our posters or place our visuals on your wallpaper to remind yourself to be creative every day no matter where you are!
- Use the Creativity Pain Scale to reflect how creative you feel each day and what you'd like to try differently to be more creative today!
How to facilitate and run better meetings
To facilitate better meetings, we need to hone our active listening, facilitation, and information organization skills. Whether we are leading the meetings or facilitating it as an active participant there are key opportunities to make every meeting an opportunity to deeply connect instead of feeling bored.
Here are five steps we recommend starting with.
- Read the Meeting Hack Guide and EQ Online Guide to reflect on how to make more with less in meetings while designing a place of inclusion and connectivity as a human being.
- Use our Digital Card Games to facilitate deep conversations, ideation, reflection, and creative exercises with your team, friends, community, and events.
- Sign up for the 3-day Rethink Facilitation email challenge to get free tips on how to rethink facilitation and safe room creation. You can also take the course to dive in more deeply!
- Use these countdown videos as a smooth transition for your meeting breaks and ideation sessions. Find more music by searching for InnovatorsBox Studios on your music streaming platforms.
- Read books by Monica H. Kang to reimagine how you could be a creative facilitator in your organization that ignites empathy, courage, and curiosity.
How to build a more inclusive culture
To build a more inclusive culture, co-creation must happen throughout the organization not top-down. Whether you are the leader or an employee you have the power to influence, shape, and contribute to how an organization is developed.
Here are a few steps we recommend starting with.
- Read books by Monica H. Kang to reimagine how you could build inclusion, psychological safety, and a culture of curiosity no matter where you work.
- Reflect on the Culture Roadmap to reflect on key questions any culture developer should review to build a culture of inclusion, creativity, and curiosity.
- Work through the Innovation and Rethink Worksheets with your team to gain a deeper understanding of where your culture is today and where you’d want to be tomorrow.
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OUR BOOKS
Rethink Creativity: How to Innovate, Inspire, and Thrive at Work
Have You Seen My Friends? The Adventures of Creativity
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Best nonfiction books for Innovators
BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS TO READ
ESSAYS
Cup of Perspective is the collection of the essays that I release bi-weekly to my more than 2,000 members of the InnovatorsBox digital community. I’ve compiled my top essays into two volumes in celebration of our 100th InnovatorsBox newsletter which was published in May 2019.
It is my way to say thank you for your support over the past three years. I hope reading this collection will remind you of, and help you reconnect with your creativity. And I hope my writing will encourage you to share your honest insights with the world.
WORKSHEETS
OUR PODCASTS
DEAR WORKPLACE: Your safe place to untangle workplace questions
CURIOUS MONICA: Candid conversations with Innovators thriving in organizations
OUR AUDIOBOOKS
CREATIVE RESILIENCE GUIDE
MUSIC BY INNNOVATORSBOX
Sleep and Meditation Guide
SLEEP BETTER WITH DEEP SLEEP
SOME VIDEOS FROM OUR PLAYLISTS
INNOVATOR’S KITCHEN
PAIRING FOOD AND CONVERSATION
