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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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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

Originally conceived by Ben Dattner and developed further by the bright minds at Leapers, a Manual of Me is a really useful tool for showing people how they can best work with you. A Manual of Me creates positive conversations among teams about strengths, differences and inclusive collaboration. We reference the tool regularly in our training sessions on neurodiversity, and this resource shares some more context for those keen to experiment with a Manual of Me, as well as some advice from those who already have.

Create your personal user guide with a Manual of Me

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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’

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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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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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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

Encourage your team to get to know each other on a deeper level, discussing differences and strengths — by using the hundred-year-old personality test as a simple tool for connection and conversation.

Get your team talking to each other with a practical take on the Myers-Briggs personality test

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Whether you’ve got a new team that hasn’t worked together before, or want to bring new energy into a group, this simple exercise helps everyone get to know each other to make workflows more enjoyable and efficient for all.

Knowing me, knowing you

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Developed by the team at LifeLabs learning, and drawing from Daniel Pink's thinking in his book Drive — this model enables us to quickly sense-check how engaged (or disengaged) people in our team are feeling. Great for leaders and managers, and great for self-awareness raising too.

What's your team's CAMPS score? Get a snapshot of engagement levels.

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Inspired by the framework in Simon Sinek's book, Find Your Why — here's a technique for defining the purpose of any kind of meeting or group gathering, to keep everyone focussed and save time.

To.... So That. A snappy structure to define the purpose of any meeting

Writer, actor and comedian David Mitchell’s snappy BBC podcast series takes a deep dive into the complex and often infuriating world of work meetings. Pulling in a variety of perspectives — from organisational designers to high ranking politicians history — Mitchell sets out to understand the appetite for gathering, and what gets in the way at the times we get together. Many of what's explored fits with our own evidence and experiments when it comes to making meetings matter, much of which is shared in this resource alongside a link to the podcast series itself and other ideas to put into practice.

Mitchell on Meetings — What we learned and where it led

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Scaling Questions are useful when we want to focus a conversation on change, and get a read on where someone is currently in relation to it. Drawn from the counselling profession; thought-provoking, quantified questions (typically on a scale of 1-10) can be paired with a follow-up question, used to initiate reflection and action. In this punchy resource, we introduce Scaling Questions and share some relevant examples so you're able to experiment with the approach for more insight and influence.

Experiment with a 'Scaling Question' to better connect, learn and influence

Team Tools

A growing collection of tools, techniques and starters for ten — to purposefully bring creativity and conversation into teams.

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