Creating Collaborative Digital Spaces

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) delivers research-based solutions that harness agricultural biodiversity and sustainably transform food systems to improve people’s lives. The Alliance forms part of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future.

This Science Week aimed to capture the ambition of the Alliance to be constantly growing and exploring innovative new pockets of science with the potential to make a difference. The focus was on science at the edge and how to push boundaries at the science-development interface.

CreateConsulting were invited in the capacity of Mural experts, to develop a digital collaboration space. - an asynchronous mirror of the Science Week - in advance of the meeting, to enable non-participants to provide inputs to the in-person discussions.

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Justin Kiley
In this month of love, where is your focus?

In this month of love - what are you choosing to focus on?

There is a LOT going on in our country at the moment and this level of disruption can seriously challenge our vision of the future.  We cannot ignore the daily realities and their impact but we can choose what we focus on. 

This Valentine’s edition of CreateSpace focusses on:

  • Leadership is a love story

  • An outstanding liberating structure, Regnosis and it’s value in vision and strategy co-creation

  • Shining a light on a great Vision

  • Strategic planning: Leveraging the best thinking of your team and

  • The impact of our journey with the GWK Professional Services team.

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Justin Kiley
CreateSpace for movement this Festive Season & beyond

As the year gathers momentum and rolls out so quickly, energy and movement are top of mind.

This holiday season our invitation is to CreateSpace for movement. What little adjustments can we make to increase our movement, the quality of our thinking and ultimately, affirm our value?

In this edition we explore:

  • The impact of clutter on wellbeing and happiness

  • The Neuroscience behind creating space for movement

  • A glimpse into some of our impact in 2022

  • Some great holiday reading to kickstart 2023

  • Creating movement in your team’s engagement in 2023

  • The 5 love languages of appreciation.

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Justin Kiley
A bumper Women's Month Edition

August brings a new opportunity to acknowledge the powerful contribution that women make to the world, our communities and businesses.

In this month’s bumper edition of CreateSpace, we explore:

  • The role that men play in bridging the gender diversity gap

  • Feature Tara Mohr’s Playing Big video and ‘10 rules for Brilliant Women”

  • Rand Merchant Bank’s award-winning gender equality initiative - The Athena Programme

  • Amy Cuddy’s powerful TEDTalk on power posing and how our body language shapes our idenitities

  • A brilliant Whole Brain® walkaround featuring questions to help circumvent the 7 power gaps women face in the workplace

  • An insightful and practical resource - Building Mental Health and Energy Resilience

  • An inspiring Onsight Team Journey Case Study.

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Are you making magic in your leadership?

As leaders, we expect (and are expected) to make magic. The reality is that we don’t always have the know-how or the skills to ‘pull the rabbit out of the hat’. This edition of CreateSpace is filled with some great articles and resources to make magic in your leadership:

  • Cognitive Diversity: a pathway to inclusive leadership

  • Questions to ignite your best thinking

  • Creating Space for a thinking environment

  • Making magic with McDonald’s MEA Supply Chain Leaders in Jordan

  • The Create Leaders Academy

  • Getting to the bones of great leadership with Morton & Partners.

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Tools to enhance team collaboration

Effective team collaboration has never been more important. While many organisations have streamlined decision making cycles, many have adopted multiple collaboration tools and many people are feeling completely overwhelmed, with team performance bearing the brunt.

A startling statistic is that fewer than 25% of employees prefer to work in teams.

When you hear the war stories of confrontations, scapegoating, blame and other forms of dysfunction, it’s not hard to see why. In this edition of CreateSpace we explore:

  • The 5 dysfunctions of a team (Patrick Lencioni)

  • Why trust is critical in teams?

  • 5 powerful and revealing team questions

  • Are we optimising our team’s collective brain power?

  • A Whole Brain® approach to team effectiveness

  • How Hollard Insure said YES to building the capability of their leadership team.

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Keys to crafting a robust Whole Brain® strategy

It's that time of year where we, as leaders, are asked to don our thinking caps and shape a strategy that will reap results.

To be competitive in today’s BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible) environment, the pressure is on to create and execute a sound, innovative strategy that will be supported by our people.

The success of any good strategy depends on the quality of the thinking that shapes it. To do our best thinking, we need the best thinking of those around us. This begs the question, how well do we know the thinking preferences of our team members?

In this edition of CreateSpace, we explore:

  • How to craft a Whole Brain® strategy

  • A simple brain hack to unlock strategic thinking

  • How we helped the SABMR team to align and save lives.

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Justin Kiley