• Activities such drawing, painting, carving, quiet the rational mind and awaken the intuitive mind, which enable flashes of insight to occur.
• Visual art teaches us to see more nuances & details about a subject. Innovators, artists, and inventors all have excellent observation skills.
• Music teaches us to listen more deeply, and this skill can be transferred to leadership and management development

Learning how to think like an artist means learning how to:

• Reframe problems in order to generate new perspectives.
• Observe information to decipher complexity, make meaning and discern emerging futures.
• Find relationships between unrelated ideas and events.
• Use imagination to spark ideas
• Work at the edge of your potential.
• Take conceptual risks
• Work within constraints
• Use all the senses to surface insights
• Transform vision into action

Art–based learning for business can enhance:

• Artful reflection: Learning to decode complexity and ambiguity
• Creative leadership development
• Cultivating Creativity & Innovation
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Values creation and meaningful work
• Appreciative Inquiry and leading change
• Corporate retreats: Hosting Strategic Conversations
• Meetings and Think Tanks
• Culture change
• New product development
• Idea-generation and problem-solving
• Role-playing and improving communications