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Agility Café 7: Creativity, Engagement and New Breakthroughs

Agility Café Topic / Action Mind Map
Agility Café Topic / Action Mind Map (click image to see larger version)

We met for the first time at the Downtown Association, in their spacious board room overlooking Queen St, the sunlight pouring in. Combined with the quiet and large table for note taking, this created an ideal space for rich discussion. This was the best café yet, just keeps getting better.

See the mind map for most of the details. Note that:

  1. Each topic is listed, with the challenges, observations and ideas captured.
  2. Each person whose topic is discussed selects one or more actions to take in the next week. Those action steps are circled in red.
  3. We also check in at the start. Cindy had a lot of exciting breakthroughs to share (highlighted in yellow). That’s what makes this all worthwhile, seeing people get excited, moving past obstacles and closer to their goals.

Topic: Creativity in the Workplace

Darren gives a one minute summary of what we discussed and action steps he plans to take:

Overall scores out of 10:

  • 9, 9, 8, 10
  • we liked: no noise, sun, focus and flow of conversation

Improvements to get a perfect score:

  1. better parking
  2. more people for next session

Want to know more about Agility Cafés? Read when they happen, what you’ll get out of them, and how to register.

Agility Café #3: Being Overwhelmed and Discovering the Root Cause

Agility Café has found its home! Fridays at noon at the Dish. Last week we tackled two issues raised at the café:

  • how to avoid becoming too overwhelmed
  • how to nurture the creative process (though we discovered a deeper underlying need)

You can watch short 2 min summaries of both discussions below, starring the lovely Darren Jorgensen.

The café this Friday is the last one this month, sadly as I will be away the following two Fridays. If you have something you want help with, or just want to get out of the office, then come out and join us this week. 🙂

RSVP for Café #4 on Friday, Jan 14 @ 12 pm, or just show up.