innovation, Belonging, Psychological Safety Craig Calder innovation, Belonging, Psychological Safety Craig Calder

How innovation is easier when you think in new boxes, the importance of belonging to performance and three strategies to create psychological safety

This week I found out how to reframe difficult conversations into learning conversations with the guidance of Sheila Heen, Dave Talas gave me an advanced lesson on conversational design to get the most out of Chat GPT and Amy Edmondson helped me become less scared of failure when by looking at it from three different perspectives.

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Habits, Values, innovation Craig Calder Habits, Values, innovation Craig Calder

How to make good habits, why we are wired to believe ‘working hard’ is a virtue and learning the power of opposites fuel creative thinking

This week I've been reading the work of James Clear in his book Atomic Habits to learn his strategies of how to create change and make it stick. I've watched a TED talk from Azim Shariff, a Canadian university professor, who has discovered why we value 'working hard' over achieving results. And I've been learning how inversion strategies have been used by artists, musicians and entrepreneurs to solve big problems. Enjoy.

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