Tim Milburn

MAY 16, 2011

When it comes to leadership, creativity, and influence, the opposite might be true as well: only bored people are boring. While I believed it was okay to be bored, I didn’t want to be known as a boring person. Thus, I was encouraged to find something useful to do with my time.

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Creativity Influence Motivation Project 129

Tim Milburn

MARCH 30, 2012

Options are the things that allow you to be excellent and creative. Getting things done on time or even before they’re due allows you to get creative and to hone your work. If you wait until the last minute to make a decision or to implement your plan (or even start planning) you take away your options.

Sports 129

Sports Creativity Morale Crisis 129

Tim Milburn

MAY 29, 2012

They need leaders who will creatively peek over the walls. There is a shift occurring among teams and organizations. They need leaders who can identify and process through the options. They need leaders with diverse points of view. They need leaders who can adapt with graceful flexibility. In today’s world, only is such a lonely option.

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Seminar Open-book Conference Diversity 129

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Doing less provides more space for creativity, engagement, and excitement. Once again, there are all kinds of great ideas they could pursue and try to implement. But at some point, they end up living from event to event. They end up doing only what’s required in order to just get by. Think about all that you’re involved in.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Let your people use their creativity to reach the outcome. If you delegate to outcomes rather than step by step tasks you’ll be surprised at how creative people can be. When you delegate, try to delegate whole projects or assignments rather than small tasks or activities. Make sure the outcome you desire is clearly defined.

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Delegation How To Project Learning-by-Doing 118

Tim Milburn

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I soon discovered I felt more creative while running then I did simply sitting behind the keyboard. The end result is I feel more productive, creative, and effective in what I’m trying to accomplish each day. I would look at the next page, section, or chapter I needed to write before I hit the running trail. I was able to focus.

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Resistance Creativity Definition Positioning 104

Tim Milburn

APRIL 4, 2011

Your most creative and quality work occurs when there’s some space in your schedule. A timeline helps you to set aside creative space to do your best. As you’ll see with #5, putting on an event may require you to plan for this creative space a few weeks before the event occurs.

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Creativity Resources Tools Planning 83

Tim Milburn

MAY 25, 2011

Creative ways to ask for help without actually using the word “help&#. It contains helpful guidance on the following: The difference between asking for help and being helpless. Identifying the intrinsic motivation in others. Recognizing the reasons why we won’t ask for help. The benefits others get when you ask them for help.

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eBook Download Document Crisis 79

Tim Milburn

APRIL 26, 2012

Let the creative one in your bunch spend an afternoon running the accounting department. And if they get too close to the high ones, sabotage their results. Ask them to do things you haven’t trained them for. I love a good POP QUIZ. Keeps the troops on their toes. C’mon…it’ll be fun!

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Motivation Bond How To Conference 152

Tim Milburn

APRIL 10, 2012

If you lack vision, your leadership will be reactionary, rather than anticipatory or creative. Vision is the compass that moves people through the barriers and conflicts we face in the moment. Without vision, both leader and followers can quickly become stuck in the moment. Leaders recognize the importance of modeling.

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Development Leadership Follow-up Diversity 163

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 3, 2012

Great coaches value imagination and creativity above a code of conduct or strategic system. Great coaches burn to win and can’t stand to lose. Great coaches understand that, win or lose, they’ll be perfectly okay. Great coaches rarely talk about or display past accomplishments.

Sports 133

Sports Belief Systems Comparison Open-book 133

Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It’s not a robotic effort devoid of creativity and nuance. The key to solid self-discipline is doing the necessary work day in and day out. In a word… consistency. Consistent self-discipline is not the same thing as boring repetition. The payoff for your consistency will be growth. Growth means change. Change means different.

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Power Library Short-term Download 118

Tim Milburn

JUNE 1, 2012

The creative capabilities of others are diminished when they feel like they are micro-managed every step along the way. Here are five additional ways you can focus your time and energy in the equipping process. Empowering. You empower people by giving them choices and letting them decide. Choice builds commitment.

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Succession Tools Process Travel 148

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Asking tough questions has become a hallmark of AT&T research culture and has helped to establish Bell Laboratories as one of the great creative institutions in America. The best firms are diligent about uncommon things — for example, asking creative questions. Too often, schools turn diligence into drudgery.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 24, 2012

5 Tips To Help Your Team Be More Creative. For more information please visit [link] syncreticsgroup.com , and follow the authors on Facebook and Twitter. Related posts: What Makes an Exceptional Leader? 3 Ways To Demonstrate Trust On Your Team.

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Uncertainty Teamwork Team Tactics 148

Tim Milburn

MAY 19, 2013

5 Tips To Help Your Team Be More Creative. With all of these online options for you, it makes it easier and more convenient to become a productive leader. Make sure have reliable local internet options to prepare you for your online leadership. Related posts: 10 Reasons Why I Tweet. Video: Got A Minute? #7: 7: Value Over Viral.'

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Skills Productivity Products Brainstorming 99

Tim Milburn

MAY 18, 2011

They represent the time-consuming activities that keep us from doing our most meaningful and creative work. But they can become distractions that keep us from doing what we truly need to be doing. They are the distractions that occur when I… Don’t want to do something. Am afraid to do something. Am overwhelmed by something.

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Resistance Conference Follow-up Creativity 104

Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Followers invest their energy with the energy of the leader to move forward. Powered through the team’s participation. The team gets better when the team gets bigger. Everyone experiments with what the leader does. Connected by community. Followers see their team as a circle and get to know everyone who’s in it.

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EVA Comparison Leadership Energy 76

Tim Milburn

MAY 30, 2012

Let your creative, non-linear thinkers come for the parts of the meeting where they’ll be most valuable and then let them leave. Take good notes and minutes at a meeting and then send them to everyone who needs them. Make note of tangents and request those involved to meet separately after the meeting. Start on time.

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Brainstorming Exit Strategy Short-term Download 153

Tim Milburn

MARCH 27, 2013

Workers make something happen because they aren’t afraid to creatively engage life each and every day. Doing all that you can to create opportunities in your life is called working. Wishers hope somebody else will make something happen for them. Change hurts. Maturity requires change.

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Learning-by-Doing Maturity Personal Power Video 145

Tim Milburn

MARCH 4, 2011

Produced by the Center for Creative Leadership, this e-newsletter is chocked full of well-researched information around the topic of leadership. John Maxwell writes in an easy to read and easy to apply style. I’ve been a subscriber of Maxwell resources for over 20 years. Leading Effectively.

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Resources Leadership Newsletter Blog 68

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2012

The key is to be creative while remaining consistent and understandable. Within the first 15 seconds of our communication, people are making decisions as to whether they will keep listening or reading. What will we do to make our message stand out from the rest? We thought that people would know how to respond to our message.

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Audience Learning-by-Doing Guidelines Information 164

Tim Milburn

MAY 11, 2011

Instead of looking immediately for “right vs wrong&# , or think “accept vs reject&# ; we learn to live in the tension and use our imaginations and creativity to discover a meaningful resolution. Maturity allows a person to see the world with humble eyes. Experience.

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Maturity Open-book Follow-up Participative 99

Tim Milburn

MARCH 29, 2011

One of the fundamental principles of good leadership is that the leader doesn’t have to be the smartest, most creative, or most talented person in the room. Gather people together and listen to their hopes and dreams. He or she only needs to know where to find those people and get them on the team.

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Mission Statement Covey Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 107

Tim Milburn

JUNE 25, 2012

5 Tips To Help Your Team Be More Creative. .” Think about it: How can you become more worthy of trust among your team members today? Related posts: I Trust You…First. Where Is The Trust?

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Team Tips Power Examples 146

Tim Milburn

JANUARY 13, 2011

If your best option is pulled off the table, do you have the creativity to see other options? In the midst of plans, expectations, and execution something breaks, someone gets hurt, resources aren’t there, someone forgets his wallet. A leader, a good leader, is a seer of alternatives.

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Resources Budgeting Crisis Tips 102

Tim Milburn

MAY 23, 2012

We create rooms specifically designed for waiting (which we creatively call waiting rooms ). On average a person spends an estimated 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday, which is about 4.2% of an average life time. response from ChaCha). Everybody waits. We wait in lines. We wait at red lights.

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Wilde Learning-by-Doing Planning Sports 88

Tim Milburn

MARCH 25, 2011

Successful recruitment happens when you (and others as they join in) can identify the kind of people who will be interested in what you’re doing and then creatively and imaginatively invite them in a way that is compelling. Asking is a crucial component.

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Planning Arkes eBook Download 76

Tim Milburn

JULY 4, 2013

I’m learning that creativity is a messy process that must begin in a clean space. Organizing the space AROUND me will help me organize the thoughts INSIDE me. Maybe it’s just me, but when my desk and room are cluttered, my mind is cluttered as well. A tidy work environment feels so much more efficient.

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Organization Learning-by-Doing Document System 160

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 19, 2010

I also hope that people will have some sense of strategy, timing, experience, insight, maturity, and creativity. When I say smart people, I’m not simply referring to one’s level of knowledge. If you’re the leader of a group of people, it’s time to cheer on the ones who are smarter than you.

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Maturity Learning-by-Doing Reference Resources 68

Tim Milburn

AUGUST 19, 2010

I also hope that people will have some sense of strategy, timing, experience, insight, maturity, and creativity. When I say smart people, I’m not simply referring to one’s level of knowledge. If you’re the leader of a group of people, it’s time to cheer on the ones who are smarter than you.

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Maturity Learning-by-Doing Reference Resources 60

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 10, 2010

But there were days I was gone for a couple of speaking engagements and a number of retreats that forced me to get creative. Since I have an easier schedule in the summer, it didn’t take much effort to schedule the workouts each day. Fortunately, P90X travels well. Eating right proved to be difficult.

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Learning-by-Doing Commitment Motivation Advice 148

Tim Milburn

APRIL 29, 2013

When you gather people of diverse viewpoints and ideas, you create opportunity for innovation and immense creativity. I hope you haven’t created a team of people who agree on everything and see life from the same perspective. What a boring and myopic team if that’s what you have.

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Charisma Learning-by-Doing Open-book Team 158

Tim Milburn

JANUARY 17, 2011

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

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