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| A little creative poke from Now Go Create |
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Hello.
Happy Thursday from Now Go Create. We´re obsessed with all things creative and aim to bring you juicy titbits, inspiration and brain food. We´ve hit the ground running in 2015. We´ve worked to up the creative ante at companies including Pret a Manger, The Times, Specsavers, Netmums, Sky Media, Turner Broadcasting and Rightster as well as many UK & global PR, media, healthcare and research agencies.
Following our judging stint on the PR Jury last year, we´re thrilled to be working again with the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity 2015 - Claire will be in Cannes this year as a mentor on their shiny new and fabulous Masters of Creativity 5-day course in June. We´ve also launched several new courses of our own which we´re excited to tell you about below, and will be running our most popular courses as open trainings in June.
Please do keep in touch and let us know what you´re up creatively. We love to hear about all your successes and experiences. Proceed with curiosity!
Claire Bridges, MSc, Creativity, Innovation & Leadership
Founder, Now Go Create.
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| Masters of Creativity Training Programme Cannes Lions June 2015 |
Claire is thrilled to be working with some of the rockstars of the creative world at this year´s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity including Dave Droga and Mark Tutsell. The 5-day programme will give you a deep understanding of every area of creative communications regardless of your sector, helping develop and hone your creative skills learning from experts and working in teams on a live brief. Claire will be mentoring the pitch teams for the final pitches to the client to win a gold, bronze or silver Lion. This is an amazing opportunity to work and learn with the best creatives in the world. For more information on how to enrol on the programme contact Steve Latham, Head of Talent & Training, stevelatham@canneslions.com.
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How To Be A Creative Ninja & Brilliant Brainstorm Open Training
London 16th & 17th June |
We are running 2 open courses in June this year for individuals to attend. Our highly regarded and ever-popular How To Become A Creative Ninja Workshop will equip you with tools, techniques and confidence!
Brilliant Brainstorm Facilitation is for anyone who has to regularly run creativity sessions and brainstorms and get the most of out of their
teams. Book your place...
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| Creative Leaders Training 14th July 2015 |
"The role of a creative leaders is not to have all the ideas; it´s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they´re valued."
Sir Ken Robinson
Following the success of our in-house sessions, we are running this new Creative Leaders programme in July as an open training. It is designed to help anyone involved in leading creativity - MDs, HR Directors, CD's & leadership teams - unpick the elements that drive a successful creative business and create an action plan for your business. "She's more than good. She is a truly amazing talent." So says Julian Metcalfe, Founder, Pret a Manger & itsu of Elizabeth Lovius, leadership expert, who co-runs this course with Claire. The programme includes:
- What it takes to foster a creative climate
- Developing the skills to challenge limiting assumptions and beliefs
- How to establish an environment for creativity
- Helping others change
- Identifying the role of the leadership team in modelling the way creatively
- Understand role of the leadership in affecting creative climate change
- Pulling it all together
The full course spec is here or contact claire@nowgocreate.co.uk for more details.
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| Take your creativity to the streets! |
We´re firm believers that in order to get creative you need to get away from your desk. We´ve launched our Creative Safari - a deliberate walking process where you´ll use London as your personal creative treasure trove and find answers.
This is a 90-minute walk where you’ll deliberately get lost and into a state of flow to answer your problem. View our blog here to find out what goes on.
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| Creative technique - ´be´ the product |
Sounds slightly bonkers, but bear with us. It's said that Einstein had his insight about the theory of relativity whilst imagining he was chasing and riding a ray of light. By imagining you actually are the product you’re developing or trying to market can help give you useful insights:
- Ask yourself, what kind of personality would it have?
- Break down the different elements in your product. How would it view the various components if each were added or taken away? With a sigh of relief? With fear? With delight?
- What would the product feel or think about being left on the shelf, or being the chosen one?
While this may not lead you to the golden idea you’ve been looking for, it is likely to spark some interesting dialogue. View our video for more inspiration.
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| Brainfood |
´Why looking down is killing creativity in PR´ - Claire is featured in PR Week
The Electric Run looks fun - a 5k run that turns into a rave
Get stuck into something crafty with your hands at Craft Week
Forget the usual museum opening hours and go at night
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