http://www.training-for-results.co.uk/2009/10/bubbles-to-creativity/ ...achieving the best in people Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.training-for-results.co.uk/2009/10/bubbles-to-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Daisey Daill Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:40:26 +0000 http://www.training-for-results.co.uk/?p=836#comment-129 I adore your blog a lot. Will read more. Keep up to excellent posting on it. Thank you I adore your blog a lot. Will read more. Keep up to excellent posting on it. Thank you

]]> http://www.training-for-results.co.uk/2009/10/bubbles-to-creativity/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Alison Trinder Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:11:11 +0000 http://www.training-for-results.co.uk/?p=836#comment-67 I met Rosie 5 years ago when she ran a course for the organisation I was working for. My boss decided to send me on the course without actually knowing what it was all about. Those of us who are trainers dread this situation and know that it takes all our skills to win the participant round. I don’t now remember much detail about the course, but I do know that Rosie must have had what it takes because she enabled me to turn my thinking around completely during those few days, and as a result my professional life has taken huge strides forwards. I am now one of seven trainers who deliver the Springboard Personal and Professional Development Programme within Oxford University, and two of us decided that we would like to include a session on creativity on one of our workshops. Rosie came along to do this for us. In the normal course of a working day you wouldn’t think it possible, but among other things she engaged us in a bubble-blowing contest and a brainstorm on how many associations we could make with the word ‘dog’. Silly? Time-wasting? Not at all. These were just preliminaries to the introduction of a very practical technique for generating new ideas, and several of the participants went away that day with ideas for how to approach old problems. The message in the evaluations was a unanimous ‘ Wonderful! Really enjoyable and refreshing and I will definitely make use of these techniques in my daily work.’ Thank you, Rosie! Alison Trinder, Oxford University October 2009 I met Rosie 5 years ago when she ran a course for the organisation I was working for. My boss decided to send me on the course without actually knowing what it was all about. Those of us who are trainers dread this situation and know that it takes all our skills to win the participant round.
I don’t now remember much detail about the course, but I do know that Rosie must have had what it takes because she enabled me to turn my thinking around completely during those few days, and as a result my professional life has taken huge strides forwards.
I am now one of seven trainers who deliver the Springboard Personal and Professional Development Programme within Oxford University, and two of us decided that we would like to include a session on creativity on one of our workshops. Rosie came along to do this for us.
In the normal course of a working day you wouldn’t think it possible, but among other things she engaged us in a bubble-blowing contest and a brainstorm on how many associations we could make with the word ‘dog’. Silly? Time-wasting? Not at all. These were just preliminaries to the introduction of a very practical technique for generating new ideas, and several of the participants went away that day with ideas for how to approach old problems. The message in the evaluations was a unanimous ‘ Wonderful! Really enjoyable and refreshing and I will definitely make use of these techniques in my daily work.’
Thank you, Rosie!
Alison Trinder, Oxford University
October 2009

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