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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.
Category Archives: Personal Development
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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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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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
Ideas, Insights, Decisions, & Direction. Learn about yourself. Take a road trip.
Tweet Put the rubber to the road and experience life and this amazing land for yourself. In a plane you don’t get to stop along the way. We need more “drive” in our lives. Driving allows you more control than … Continue reading
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Experiment on achievement: Small daily goals or big ongoing goals?
TweetWhat works better for achieving something important? A big goal over a long period of time or smaller daily goals? My vote is for smaller daily goals because they help you take consistent action…and you have daily achievements to savor … Continue reading
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Tagged achievement, article, challenge, goal setting, yoga
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Start a mini hero’s journey to innovate your life: Reflections on a 30 day yoga challenge
TweetI’m fascinated with “The Hero’s Journey” from mythologist Joseph Campbell. The Hero’s Journey has also become popular in Hollywood, with movies like Star Wars, The Matrix, and Avatar building the path of the main character in the film consistent with … Continue reading
Innovate your life with new ways of moving, thinking, and learning
TweetWhen we want to innovate our own lives, trying something new can help. We should do more than just TRY something new, we should stick with it and integrate this something new into our lives on a consistent basis. This … Continue reading