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WIDER SKILLS
WIDER SKILLS
These are the soft, or transferable, skills which you can use in any job or career. It's skills like creativity, teamwork, problem solving, confidence and critical thinking. This section covers some of the skills you asked for.
These are the soft, or transferable, skills which you can use in any job or career. It's skills like creativity, teamwork, problem solving, confidence and critical thinking. This section covers some of the skills you asked for.
Your Creative Life: Nick Corston
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Your Creative Life: Nick Corston
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Nick Corston- Creativity Masterclass One .mp4This is the first of three related sessions on creativity. Creativity was the top wider skill you said you wanted more content on. This session covers planning for a creative life. Nick's background is in digital marketing agencies where he worked on strategy, innovation and communications projects with some of the world's largest agencies and brands from Nike to Vodafone, Sony PlayStation to British Heart Foundation and Diageo to Barclays. Inspired by Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk on creativity in education and a bunch of creatives in a corner of a field at a festival, he co-founded STEAM Co., a non-profit charitable social enterprise that 'powers communities to inspire young people with creativity'.
Your Creative Health: Nick Corston
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Your Creative Health: Nick Corston
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Nick Corston- Creativity Masterclass Two.mp4This is the second of three related sessions on creativity. This session explores how to live a healthy life as a creative, balancing mental and physical health with the creative process.
Your Creative Story: Nick Corston
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Your Creative Story: Nick Corston
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Nick Corston- Creativity Masterclass Three.mp4This is the third of three related sessions on creativity. This session explores how to build and tell your creative story. In a world of immersive social media, storytelling is a key ingredient.
What is Creativity?: Sir Ken Robinson
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What is Creativity?: Sir Ken Robinson
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Alongside going to the Glastonbury Festival, one of Nick Corston's key influences was the creative educator, Sir Ken Robinson. Here Ken argues that creative work is a process, not just an event. Creativity is easily mixed up with other terms such as imagination and innovation. Creativity is not only about coming up with something new, it is also about applying critical judgment.
Confidence: Dina Grishin
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Confidence: Dina Grishin
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Dina Grishin; Confidence .mp4One of the wider skills you asked for help with was confidence. Confidence is very important for creatives, given you are pitching and producing work which others will review and interact with. Dina is a straight-talking life coach who has done a lot of work coaching creatives. Based in London and coaching worldwide she incorporates creativity, story-telling, humour and fun into her workshops.
The Skill of Self Confidence: Dr Ivan Joseph
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The Skill of Self Confidence: Dr Ivan Joseph
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This video looks at confidence in relation to sport, which is very similar to some creative roles, and shows its wider importance in our lives. Ivan Joseph is the athletic director and head coach of the Varsity Soccer team at Ryerson University. Here he explores self confidence and how it is not just the most important skill in sport, but in our lives.
How to Build Your Confidence: Brittany Packnett
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How to Build Your Confidence: Brittany Packnett
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A final video on confidence. 'Confidence is the necessary spark before everything that follows' says educator and activist Brittany Packnett. In an inspiring TED talk, she shares three ways to crack the code of confidence and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious dreams into reality.
Teamwork: Carol Ann Whitehead
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Teamwork: Carol Ann Whitehead
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Carol Ann Whitehead- teamwork.mp4Working in a team was another skill you told us you wanted more on. Teamwork is a common working method in most creative careers, from bands and games sprints, to graphic design studios and film and event crews. Carol founded The Zebra Partnership in in 2000 and a boutique agency that brings together talented freelancers in the fields of publishing, campaigns, communications and event management.
Teams Start with Human Connections: Matt Eng
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Teams Start with Human Connections: Matt Eng
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This video continues looking at teamwork. Building teams requires more than matching skill sets. We need to focus on connecting together by our natural motivations to leverage our instincts to help each other. Matt is a product designer who has worked with companies such as IBM, AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent, Ogilvy, and Symantec. He also teaches and mentors designers new to their careers on process and team building.
How to Cope with Anxiety: Olivia Remes
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How to Cope with Anxiety: Olivia Remes
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Managing our mental health can be a significant aspect of navigating our career journey. Anxiety is one of most prevalent mental health disorders, with 1 out of 14 people being affected. Olivia Remes of the University of Cambridge shares her vision on anxiety and will unravel ways to treat and manage it. She will emphasises the importance of harnessing strength in ourselves as we modify our problem-coping mechanisms.
Overcoming the Stigma around Mental Illness: Michaela Mulenga
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Overcoming the Stigma around Mental Illness: Michaela Mulenga
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This video continues to explore how we can improve our mental health. Michaela’s powerful talk is about ending the stigma around mental health and breaking the stigma around it.
Pitching & Presenting: Mazzy Snape
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Pitching & Presenting: Mazzy Snape
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Pitching and Presenting Mazzy Snape Bread Birmingham.mp4How to pitch and present your work is a valuable skill that many creatives will need. Mazzy is an Event Producer, Project Manager, Promotions & Marketing Director. Co-Founder at Bread Birmingham Ltd. Bread is a events and promotions agency bringing experienced professionals together to create a unique 360° approach.
How to do a Pitch Presentation: Philip VanDusen
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How to do a Pitch Presentation: Philip VanDusen
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How to pitch and present your work is a valuable skill that many creatives will need. Knowing how to successfully pitch prospective clients to win new business is one of the most important skills a creative professional or entrepreneur can have. There are core skills sets you need to have, but there are also certain hacks that Philip has developed over 2 decades for working as a creative executive in global branding agencies and as a VP of Design in global corporations.
How to Pitch to a Client: Matthew Echina
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How to Pitch to a Client: Matthew Echina
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Here is a video short on some top tips for creative pitching. Learn how to pitch to your dream client. These 5 tips will help you uncover the secrets that creative professionals use every day. In this video Matthew Encina goes over what he does when he pitches to clients.
Find Problem, Solve Problem: Ariana Glantz
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Find Problem, Solve Problem: Ariana Glantz
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Critical thinking and problem solving are skills which are important in many situations in life and work and they are highly valued in the workplace. Ariana shares her approach to tackling each day’s problems with a solution-minded point of view. The talk is rooted in the actions we take and something that is familiar to all: challenges. Challenges come in all shapes and sizes. Our choice, then, is in how we approach each challenge with a solution minded framework
Creative Problem Solving Techniques
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Creative Problem Solving Techniques
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This video continues exploring problem solving. This video looks at 10 techniques for creative problem solving.
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