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An ever growing community of coaches, faciliators and designers and subject experts — designing and delivering learning experiences and resources that make a real impact on your business challenges.

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Creative director, and Saboteur co-founder, Nick Eagleton believes the secret to generating great ideas is generating more of them. And that starts with making connections.

How to generate more ideas (and get to the good ones) with Nick Eagleton

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We are often told to start with ‘Why’ when approaching new projects. But all that soul-searching upfront can be a difficult place to begin. Creative Director Nick Eagleton argues that starting with ‘What’ and ‘Who’ makes answering the ‘Why’ a whole lot easier.

A three-step approach to finding your ‘Why’

Ideastop

Discover what we can learn from other people’s worlds and points of reference — and how we might then make lateral leaps back into our own.

Spark more ideas with the Related Worlds tool

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Connect, prime and inspire your team ahead of a meeting with this ever-growing edit of exercises designed to get you thinking creatively (both IRL and URL).

Warm up exercises for your groups and meetings

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If you’re one of the lucky ones, you’ll have more ideas than you know what to do with. Head of Content at MADE.com Ray Murphy talks to Creative Director Nick Eagleton about two very different methods to get down to the ones that work.

How to set your ideas on fire

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MADE.com’s Head of Content Ray Murphy talks to Creative Director Nick Eagleton about how to use the senses to turn our team’s ideas into a tangible reality.

Taking your concept into the real world

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Get your team into a creative frame of mind by turning limiting thinking patterns into liberating mindsets with this quick game that will also bring a smile. With Ray Murphy and Nick Eagleton.

From discos to black holes: a game that unlocks creativity

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Briefs often come in the form of lengthy presentations and complex problems. Nick Eagleton and Ray Murphy talk about how to get to the heart of the task at hand.

The first thing you should do when receiving a new brief

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Getting your team together for a 'retro'/retrospective is vital to capture learning and feedback — and to support those marginal gains and continual betterment ahead of next time. But it's a very easy step to overlook, particularly in the modern, distributed world of work. Held at the end of any kind of project or sprint cycle — a retro will capture collective conversation around what worked well, what didn't and what you want to do differently ahead of next time. Pens, post its or a virtual board will do the trick.

How to run a project retro with your team

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In our How to Have Ideas workshop we share the simple Visual Collisions tool — a playful, punchy and purposeful approach to sparking our imaginations. Here's a digital version for you to use solo, or among your teams.

eCourse: Visual Collisions

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This short and practical guide to better creative briefing, supports our course on the topic developed and delivered by agency founders Matt Baxter and Dom Bailey. It will help you ensure that you begin projects with Purpose, People, Standards and Results in mind.

Better Briefing: A bitesize guide from Baxter & Bailey

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The tools and resources here, bring together and share much of what we cover in our How to Have Ideas workshop. You'll find session slides, digital gizmos and lots of recommended reading/listening and watching to further spark your mind.

Course Pack: How to have Ideas

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In our How to Have Ideas workshop, Nick explains that a lot of books have been written on ideas and creativity; and he's read them all — boiling down the best bits — so you don't need to. But you probably want to, so here they all are.

25 recommended books on creative thinking, courtesy of Saboteur creative director Nick Eagleton

Albert

These curated resources, many referenced in our Defining Problems workshop, will help you revisit and refresh what we covered together. We've shared relevant workshop slides, expert led video exercises and curated resources too —  perfect for replaying, sharing and teaching forward in your teams.

Course Pack: Defining Problems

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A purposeful, playful and proven tool to try among teams (or indeed solo) — de Bono's legendary Six Thinking Hats gets us intentionally out of our default world view, ensures diverse perspectives are being entertained and that default biases are dampened.

Encourage diverse perspectives, with Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats

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The Round-Robin brainstorming method is not only a great way to compress the volume and voices in meetings, but is a unique, collaborative tool for developing multiple ideas at once in a way that everyone participates equally.

Round Robin Brainstorming — An inclusive tool for inviting (and building on) everyone's ideas

This curated collection of resources supports much of the content covered in our Writing Well workshop. Included is a link to the workshop's Miro board, for sharing and refreshing on key themes and ideas. A great way to embed new learning is to teach something new to someone else. Enjoy!

Course Pack: Writing Well

Do Story

Bobette's punchy and enlightening publication Do: Story is a goldmine of practical pointers for storytelling at work, in presentations, in any and all contexts. Here, alongside her 10 core principles for successful storytelling, we share some lateral thinking of our own and five key takeaways from the book for you to experiment with.

Practical storytelling principles from Bobette Buster's book — Do: Story

Homework

Developed by writer and speaker Matthew Dicks, Homework for Life is a ten-second daily ritual that helps you develop a storytelling lens, build a personal treasure trove of moving stories, and gets you recognising the explosive emotional impact of seemingly subatomic everyday moments.

Homework for Life: A ten-second daily ritual for noticing, capturing and practicing stories

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A simple and effective framework for collectively identifying the root causes of a problem, exposing aspects you may have overlooked, and making up your mind about what to act on.

Try the 5 Whys to invigorate your problem solving and add depth to your decisions.

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Some of the pitfalls ahead in any coming project or opportunity can be surfaced before you get going, with a neat predictive tool called a pre-mortem. And once potential problems are in the present you can get creative on ways to pre-empt them. This short guide steps out how to try one today.