Gary Bertwistle

Creative Espresso 1

How creativity, thinking and your imagination work?

In this podcast, we look at the inner workings of creativity. Not so much in a scientific sense but in a common everyday sense, with how your own individual thinking works, and what you can do to enhance and change your thinking. We look at how, from a young age, we are programmed to think in a certain way, and how by understanding about how it works and by thinking about things differently, you can re-wire your brain to come up with better ideas and more of them.

Creative Espresso 2

The barriers that prevent us from thinking differently

In this podcast we check out the barriers to creativity. From our own thinking to the barriers imposed by others, we look at those things that prevent us from thinking differently. Part of this podcast will also give you some easy to use, easy to understand tools to help you unlock your great ideas.

Creative Espresso 3

Tips and tools to unlock your great ideas

Here we look at the specific tips and tools that can be used to unlock your great ideas. Easy to understand and totally practical ideas that can help you to stimulate your thinking, imagination and ultimately create profitable new ideas.

Creative Espresso 4

How to set up a brainstorming session

This podcast looks at one of the most popular questions facing facilitators - how to set up and run a brainstorming session. We will look at the set up, from the perfect number of people, to setting up the room, to providing stimulation, the environment, right through to some easy to understand tips and tools to get the most out of your creative sessions. A valuable session for anybody who stands at the front of a room and looks to extract great ideas from their team.

Creative Espresso 5

Effective Brainstorming

In this podcast we talk about the well known topic of brainstorming. In any given minute, somewhere in the world, someone will be running a brainstorming session. Only a select few know how to run an efficient, productive brainstorming session, utilising the real talent in the room. In this session we will show you the guidelines necessary to run an efficient brainstorm as designed by the inventors of brainstorming - Alex Osborn and Sid Parnes, back in the 60's. You will receive a system, guidelines and a process that you may follow to ensure your brainstorming sessions are a great success.

Creative Espresso 7

Tips and Tools

Here we'll show you some unique and powerful tips and techniques for unlocking your great ideas. Quite often, stimulation is the necessary ingredient to find new and original ways of doing things. In this podcast we'll talk you through some unusual but very successful and productive ways of stimulating your thinking. Appropriate for any business, or even just your own personal use, these techniques will get you thinking differently.

Creative Espresso 8

BiGNOA

In this Creative Espresso, we're going to chat about a new approach to a well known process called SWOT. We'll introduce you to a new approach to strategic creative thinking, and also something you can use in facilitation. The process is called BiGNOA - and it is being employed in strategy sessions all over the world. It's easy to use, excites your team, has tangible outcomes and actually takes your sessions towards a useable, accountable idea.

Creative Espresso 9

The Creative Sorbet

Quite often we approach business, life and our health like a bull at a gate, going 24/7 with no rest. By doing this we leave no space for creativity and imagination. In this podcast we'll look at the sorbet - the palette cleanser between ideas. What is it? How do you do it? How can it help you to generate your best ideas?

Creative Espresso 10

The Art of Listening

The podcast talks about the art of listening. Do we really listen when we're engaged in a conversation? Well.... of course we do. That's what we'd say. But - do we?

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