Jennifer Yaros's guest appearances

Jennifer Yaros

TLDCast Podcast

Soar to Success Podcast

Dorie Clark

Scott Cooper

Perry Marshall

Nick Taylor

Michael Zipursky

Mike Michalowicz

Jeff Long

Matt Johnson

Joey Fameli

Mark Sheppard

Brian Fanzo

Ivan Misner

Michael Jones

Jeb Blount

Dan Schawbel

OwlTail

My guest today is Founder and Chief Creativity Officer of BrainSpark, Jennifer Yaros. She is the author of Conditioning Your Mind to Fuel Creativity.  She explains how she came to be an expert in creativity at work and offers tips for sparking your creativity on the Soar to Success Podcast.

Jennifer Yaros Generates Her Own Success and Helps You Build Yours, Creatively!

Today’s guest, Jennifer Yaros, talked about creativity and the work she is doing with her new product BrainSpark. She came into the Training, Learning &amp; Development industry by starting off her career in technical writing. She took a course in Instructional Design and realized that it’s very similar to tech writing and expanded her skill set into ID seeing herself as a knowledge transfer expert. We also talked about working with subject matter experts, and audience analysis, and the importance of being empathetic in the work we do. Creativity was a big part of our conversation. She has some great tips and tricks around nurturing creativity.  3 main things to improve: work on your body improve your thinking through divergent thinking let go of your ego through collaboration Playing and thinking like a child by asking a lot of questions is another great way to be creative.She also shared an example of “failing like a genius” using the story of the slinky and how it was invented. Jennifer has a lot to share about #1 above because she is an ultra-runner, and yoga practitioner. She also recommends staying away from caffeine for being creative, but it IS helpful when after you’ve had a creative idea and need to execute. She shared so much more!

Today’s guest, Jennifer Yaros, talked about creativity and the work she is doing with her new product BrainSpark. She came into the Training, Learning &amp; Development industry by starting off her career in technical writing. She took a course in Instructional Design and realized that it’s very similar to tech writing and expanded her skill set into ID seeing herself as a knowledge transfer expert. We also talked about working with subject matter experts, and audience analysis, and the importance of being empathetic in the work we do. Creativity was a big part of our conversation. She has some great tips and tricks around nurturing creativity. 3 main things to improve: <ol><li>work on your body</li> <li>improve your thinking through divergent thinking</li> <li>let go of your ego through collaboration</li> </ol>Playing and thinking like a child by asking a lot of questions is another great way to be creative. She also shared an example of “failing like a genius” using the story of the slinky and how it was invented. Jennifer has a lot to share about #1 above because she is an ultra-runner, and yoga practitioner. She also recommends staying away from caffeine for being creative, but it IS helpful when after you’ve had a creative idea and need to execute. She shared so much more!

Special Guest Jennifer Yaros on Creativity