News & Articles
A selection of articles on topical and emergent themes in creative management and strategy innovation.
Discussion Document: 
Belbin and CIPD roles in creative process
People have different talents in relation to how they manage processes. Before you can assess those talents it is useful to understand the structure of processes. Different schemas explore the roles and behaviours required to achieve successful outcomes. What insight can we gain by exploring the relationship between Belbin’s Team Roles and CIPD’s Professional Behaviours in the context of the processes they are supporting?
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Explore
Talk of exploration brings to mind images of brave men riding out into unknown territory, trekking across continents with simple equipment, entirely self-sufficient. Exploration is linked to discovery and a sense of adventure.
Comparative study of roles and behaviours
Is there a relationship between different schema that address roles and behaviours that achieve successful outcomes? For instance, has Belbin's team roles any relationship with CIPD professional behaviours? Can we gain insight by viewing roles and behaviours from the perspective of the process they are supporting?
Latest Newsletter
News and articles about management creativity, CMC and related products and services
Dare to dream!
Release energy and imagination to create the future you want. This highly successful whole-system process will be customised to your needs. An initial residential off-site workshop will firmly establish Purpose, Vision and Values to give the team identity and clarity. This is the key element in a developmental journey comprising the following steps... [read more]
Raise Your Game
Financial crisis has changed all our lives. Like governments and leaders around the world, we may wish to get "back to normal" but time and change go only forwards.
Developing Capability
Capability is the sum total of our ability to respond to challenge and change. Leaders need to maximise the capability of their organisations and the teams within them. In this article John Varney describes how this can be done
Tapping Creativity
This article discusses the nature of creativity and enquiry and why people are sometimes less creative than they need to be. It argues the work of leaders is to use 'serious play' to release the spirit of creativity in the culture of their organisations.
Serious Play
What is serious play and why does it help with strategy? This article, originally published in Business Executive Magazine, shines a little light on processes that help leadership teams meet modern organisational challenges.
Bringing Ideas to Life
Places and spaces can live. Ideas can live. Organisations can live. However, the difference seems to need people to have a particular kind of intention.
Resilience - and how to survive in tough times
In his article for the Banff centre's Leadership Compass magazine John Varney relates nine factors that research suggests enable humans to survive in emergencies, to the organisation.
Accessing the Power of Vision
In his article for the Banff centre's Leadership Compass magazine John Varney shares his perception of a vision being a vital means of raising aspirations and aligning energies with the common intent, enabling people to bring their endeavour to life.
REFLECT! The art of purposeful non-thinking
John Varney advocates finding time to stop and think and offers a useful metaphor of how we take an illusion for reality, how we can intuit causal patterns and how, with intention, we can gain insight.
Authentic Leadership
To lead is to go first and bring others along. Authentic leadership, it is argued, is exhibited in our behaviour.
Strategy as Fiction
Dare we believe in what we dare to imagine? That is a question that is answered through the flowing pattern of relationships we tend to refer to as leadership or teamwork.
