The Creativity Track Record

I’ve chosen eight examples from my nine years’ Senior University Lecturer and Research work on my CV that highlight and showcases my creativity and how I’ve developed and used it as a valuable skill at work. It highlights that while AI can now automate many tasks, creativity, curiosity, imagination, innovation, and human-centred problem-solving remain essential uniquely human skills that technology cannot fully replace that will continue to drive innovation and progress. And that’s the reason why creativity will continue to be one of the most valuable skills in the future.

It was at this time that I started testing these 3 questions below as part of my PhD research, and since then I’ve asked hundreds of people from every walk of life these exact same 3 questions to help them to overcome the obstacles stopping them from achieving what they wanted.

1. Q1What is it that you really want to achieve?results
2. Q2What is it that’s really stopping you?obstacles
3. Q3What are all the options available to you?curiosity

Eight examples highlighting how I developed and used my creativity in my Senior University Lecturer & Research Fellow work (9 years)

Example #1: I used my creativity to turn around an underperforming University project and deliver 100% of the project results required within budget and time-scale required working creatively with a wide range of stakeholders. As a reward I was given my own Academy to help people in business, community and social enterprises to overcome the obstacles stopping them from achieving what they wanted.

Example #2: I used my creativity to successfully design, develop, get validated, launch and deliver a new and unique Business & Community Enterprise undergraduate degree programme working collaboratively and creatively with a wide range of stakeholders.

Example #3: I used my creativity to design and develop new and unique options to overcome obstacles that were stopping people from achieving what they wanted after identifying that there were 2 main categories of obstacles – obstacles that were external to the person and obstacles that were internal to the person. And that’s why I got trained in CBT, NLP and ACT in order to help them do this. I have successfully used these therapeutic models ever since in addition to hypnotherapy, Havening® and HeartMath®.

Example #4: I used my creativity to develop The 3M Method™ as part of my research for the Action Enterprise and Masters in Enterprise programmes when creating a new formula to train school, college and University staff and students from apprentice level to masters level in enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Example #5: I then creatively applied The 3M Method™ to train employees from apprentices to masters level in a wide range of jobs in business, community and social enterprises.

Example #6: I used my creativity to research, design, develop and test a new objectively assessed psychometric job interview based on expert-embedded questions to test and assess a candidate’s subjective mindset and motivation (two of the 3M’s in The 3M Method™). Which meant that we could predict future job performance by assessing candidates against all of the 3M’s in The 3M Method™ that were required to be unconsciously competent in the job for which they were applying.

Example #7: I used my creativity to set up and facilitate Business Creativity Circles for 6 years using the 3 questions to help over fifty owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from a wide range of business sectors to overcome hundreds of different obstacles they faced in their business life.

Example #8: I used my creativity to combine my law degree with my finance qualifications in order to help business owners identify and develop valuable Intellectual Property assets to add to their personal and corporate balance sheets.