by Dan Scott | May 2, 2012 | creativity, kidmin, leadership, ORANGE BLOG
Some of the most fun I had all of the Orange Conference this year was leading a breakout on Hosting. We looked at what it takes to make a great host from the basics questions you need to ask anytime you are called to host an event to the deeper skills of creating a...
by Dan | Oct 14, 2011 | creativity, leadership
Yesterday, I explained the focus of my Kidmin workshop on leading creative teams. I left out one of the key teachings on purpose. I figured this was worthy of an entire post. Brainstorming is all about getting every idea out on a whiteboard. In order for...
by Dan | Oct 13, 2011 | creativity, kidmin, leadership
This past week, I had the opportunity to speak about Leading Creative Teams at the Group KidMin Conference in Chicago. I thought it’d be good to post a summary of that session along with the Prezi that accompanied it. Leading Creative Teams on Prezi THEOLOGY OF...
by Dan | Aug 17, 2011 | creativity
I’ve had this photo as my Facebook profile picture for about a month now: Every so often I get the question, “So, what is it you’re doing in that picture?” Well, wonder no further. We were lip-syncing to Michael Jackson’s “Bad.” Yep, that’s right: professional...
by Dan | Dec 16, 2010 | creativity, kidmin
My kids (and I) have been on a Shaun the Sheep kick recently. If you’ve never seen an episode of this claymation brilliance, you MUST. Here’s a preview: [youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4RN5mkyrSg&feature=related] One of the (many)...
by Dan | Oct 14, 2010 | creativity, life
Jenna turned to me the other morning. “I just lay here thinking, ‘I need to get in the cab.’ But I just want to sleep.” In The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp writes about her daily 5:30 a.m. work-out ritual: “The ritual is not he stretching and the weight training...