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About Darin
Darin Eich, has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His work zeroes in on how people can learn leadership & innovation.
Darin is also the President & co-founder of BrainReactions, an innovation company recognized by US News and BusinessWeek. Darin also worked to establish Innovation Trip and InnovationTraining.org, the top Innovation Training website that offers web based workshops.
Darin can be hired as a consultant or facilitator to help your institution facilitate, create, and develop programs, workshops, retreats, and even conduct assessment or coach staff on facilitating innovation learning or developing innovation programs. You can email Darin (at) ProgramInnovation.com.
Author Archives: Darin Eich
How to Save Time and Make Time with a Personal Assessment Activity
TweetAn IBM executive gave advice to graduates. He said to develop the skill of figuring out how to do something with data. This can be finding it, gathering it, organizing it, generating it, analyzing it, interpreting it, making meaning of … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, make time, save time, time management
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Ladder Infographic: Starting Innovation Thinking & Conversations
TweetA metaphor and visual model can help us get started with innovation and the important, frequent, and necessary conversations with others about what we are working on. I’ve whipped up an innovation ladder model infographic to help you think about … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, conversation, infographic, innovation, networking
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Everyday Innovation: Applying 5 Innovator Skills to Building a Better Fruit Fly Trap
TweetThe Five Innovator’s DNA skills are observing, associating, questioning, experimenting, and networking. You can put these skills to use in everyday situations. The problem. I had fruit flies one summer day. This is fine in the 10th grade biology classroom … Continue reading
Plus One or Times Two Innovation?
Tweet Would you rather go +1 or x2 in your ideas and innovations? How about life? How about at work? When innovating and doing things better we have choices. Do we want a slight improvement, a +1, an incremental innovation? … Continue reading
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Self-Innovation Keynote Speech Program
TweetHere is a description of one of my favorite keynote programs to do for groups. We help individuals apply collaborative innovation to their own life and what they are working on. Innovate yourself and what you are doing in your … Continue reading
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What I’ve been reading: Outliers, The One Thing, The Power of Less & Predictably Irrational
Tweet The past month I’ve been catching up on reading while traveling. Flights make for a great time to catch up on reading and long drives allow the chance to listen to audio books. I try to catch up on … Continue reading
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Remixed & Autotuned speech from Martin Luther King jr.
TweetThis is inspiring and engaging. I’m impressed with what technology can do to make a classic speech sound new, different, and current. The autotune videos from The Gregory Brothers accumulate millions of views (The Bedroom Intruder song has over 66 … Continue reading
The Awesome Things Story Video from TED
TweetNeil Pasricha started the 1000 Awesome Things blog. It is a great visual blog that helps us to have the right perspective–a perspective that lets us see that there are many awesome things in our world–and we can focus on … Continue reading
Reflect, assess, & innovate this year by creating a “year in review report” for your life
TweetYou may have to do a “year in review report” for your job, department, or organization at the end of each year. Why not do one for your own life? What if you were to take assessing and improving your … Continue reading
Sleep, Dream, Shower, & Exercise for Solutions: Subconscious Ideation
Tweet If I really want solutions, decisions, or insights I will sleep on the challenge, dream on it in the morning while half awake and half asleep, shower on it, bike to the woods with it in mind, and then … Continue reading