What art is in front of you when you look up from this post? Your unique spatial intelligence to solve problems at work calls for art and Liz Strauss' Successful and Outstanding Blog shows many new kinds. The discussion over there reminds us that when we draw it out, art comes to work in the form of multiple intelligences.
1. Place your favorite art on the wall and ask others what they think of it. I once hung a picture of a gal in short sleeves feeding farm animals a few oats during what looked like a breaking storm to start the winter. That painting reminded me to take care of people around me, and to remember the vulnerable people who get less attention at work. Art offers us a language that words
alone may lack. That’s art from interpersonal intelligence.
2. Observe an artistic person, watch for unique interests in art and consider how these could help your business day. Then apply what you observe to solve a sticky problem in your day in a bit of a new way. Ok, now you have drawn art from your intrapersonal intelligence.
3. Use images to describe or imagine the end results you want in the next project you complete at work, and you’ll draw art from your spatial intelligence
4. Jot down a few poetic lines, describe in your own words - a difficult process people are learning at work or read an interesting article and share it with peers and you’ve added art to the mix – through your linguistic intelligence.
5. Build something, mime something – or just plain dance your way into a room – and you’ll begin to see and draw more art from kinesthetic intelligence, than you knew was there.
6. Arrange numbers as symbols to show new images such as recent growth rates your dept made or plans to make in the coming week. It’s that simple for art to begin to take shape through creative numeric forms.
7. Open your drapes to take in nature’s beauty, take a walk in the park at lunch with a colleague, or buy a peace plant for your work area, and your naturalistic intelligence springs alive in art.
8. Let the music ring and a favorite band begin – so that music become more central in the art you bring to work. Then watch musical intelligence work wonders in pretty much any setting.
What else could be done to discover art and position it into a more central place at your business...? Where would you begin, if you were Picasso or Robert Frost?
Hi Dr Elen.
I came here via successful blog.
I write out a long word occasionally. I'll use that word "occasionally" as the example. I then find all the words I can hidden within that word.
i.e. Sally, lan, sin, silly, can, occasion…
This is great for calming the mind when too many things are overwhelming at once. Learned of this one from my mom.
Nice to meet you.
Posted by: Jessica Doyle | April 17, 2007 10:38 PM | Permalink to Comment