Blog – The Painted Sky

Forbes: Could An Executive Coach Help You Succeed In Business?

June 21st, 2016

Forbes recently ran an excellent interview of Jody Michael, CEO of Jody Michael Associates by contributor Larry Myler, (MAY 24, 2016). I particularly love the comment “Great coaches don’t do the work; they hold their clients accountable to do the work for themselves. A coach is a catalyst for change.” Coaching is still in it’s infancy in India, and while the awareness of Executive Coaching as a powerful process of ...

HUFF: Surprising Insights From Interview with Zappos’ Training & Development Leader

February 10th, 2016

Heather Younger, Customer and Employee Experience Consultant, Author, Speaker I reached out to Rich after noticing that not only does he work for Zappos, but that he had an executive career in restaurants and also was a volunteer Incident Commander for the Civil Air Patrol. How cool is that! He works for Zappos, one the most admired companies for customer experience and culture, and fly’s planes? I had ...

“CONCURRENCE”, August 2015

August 15th, 2015

Art-Based Training Concurrence

We are delighted and proud to bring to you our second instalment of‘Concurrence’, on its quest to explore “What Businesses Can Learn From The Arts”. It is now 10 years since we got into Training, the last five of which have gone primarily in the space of developing Art-based methodologies. This has been a fascinating journey for us, a journey that has taken us overseas to nine countries, and inwards into deeper ...

Stop Being Busy, Start Being Creative!

July 17th, 2015

Creativity Empathy ideas

6 Ways Spending More Time Alone Leads To Greater Creativity Stop being busy, start being creative. BY ANNA GUERRERO, Editor, Canva Design School PUBLISHED ON: JUL 15, 2015 Between our laptops, phones, tablets and even wearable technology–our 21st century world is not slowing down. The result? One you’re probably familiar with. A perpetual state of “busy-ness’–with no escape. There’s no doubt that our fear of missing out is greater than ever.

Painting in the Training Room: Where Process Trumps Product

July 16th, 2015

Art-Based Training Creativity Learning Painting Training

In almost all my programmes where we use Painting, be it for Influencing or Conflict Management, Collaboration or Managing Change, one factor is common – the participants’ worry about the Output. Most of my participants aren’t experts in Painting, most haven’t painted in years, maybe decades. Some have never painted in their life (at least the way we do it – all formal and proper, stretched canvases framed to perfection, easels ...