My colleague, Robert Rasmussen, an expert in using LEGO SERIOUS PLAY, writes in his ezine:

"Over eight years, Charles Palus and David Horth, researchers at the Center for Creative Leadership and co-authors of "The Leader’s Edge, Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges", observed several hundred individual leaders. The authors found six interrelated creative competencies that helped these leaders to make good decisions in turbulent times:

1. Paying Attention; using multiple modes of perception.
2. Personalizing; tapping into others unique life experiences.
3. Imaging; using all kind of images, such as pictures, stories and metaphors.
4. Serious Play; generating knowledge through exploration, improvisation, experimentation.
5. Co-inquiry; dialoguing within and across community boundaries.
6. Crafting; synthesizing issues, objects, events into meaningful wholes."

Hooray for using our right-brains for getting through the hard places in life and business. Try honing just one of these competencies and see what happens.