Stephen Harvill

Biography

Just seeing one pop up on your calendar causes a flood of wasted time history to slam into your expectations.
Why have we destroyed the unbelievable impact that can be created when a group of smart people gather? Where have we gone wrong and is there a chance to do something different, to change the model?
Stephen Harvill and Creative Ventures introduces a process for creating a new form of energy that taps the potential that exists in all meetings.
A Simple 3 Part Process
• PRE: Create a sense of anticipation by developing participation ahead of the meeting.
• MEETING: This is the heart and soul of the strategy. Your challenge is to design something different, to deliver information and gain insights, to create an experience.
• POST: A strong post-meeting strategy captures the energy you have created by developing a “re-connect” tactic that ties into both your PRE and MEETING experience.
It’s time to capture the unlimited potential that exists in meetings.
It’s time to focus your strategy in an area of the highest possible return.
It’s time to unlock THE OPPORTUNITY OF MEETING

THE CURIOUS CLARITY OF TEAMS
Leaders have the responsibility of defining clarity , of defining a vision of purpose and value. Clarity will drive a teams understanding of missions and goals.
Clarity is about driving a way of moving ideas and actions forward:
• The Clarity of Paying Attention: When clarity is lacking, opportunity goes undiscovered
• The Clarity of “Seeing”: Nothing is more important to clarity than the ability to create a means for everyone to see it. We are visual creatures and the ability to see creates clarity!
• The Clarity of Enrollment: To create forward motion forget about Òbuy-inÓ. Buy-in is the lowest form of engagement in any idea or project. ItÕs engagement driven from on high to those down below, without their involvement. Clarity thrives on ÒenrollmentÓ, the active participation by those who will be impacted by the plan.
• The Clarity of Purpose: Purpose creates a laser like focus on issues beyond the job order. Define your purpose in three areas:
• Your story: Can you define what you do?
• Value: What value do you bring to your team, THEN your clients
• Differentiation: What makes you different in a comoditized world?

The Journey from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Why do we continually settle for ordinary, when the step to extraordinary is so simple?
Why do we ignore the power of a simple story? Why do we miss the return we are given when we focus on the client experience? Why don’t we create opportunity instead of waiting for it and when we see the chance why don’t we make the opportunity scream WOW!
These questions form the core of the DAZZLING BLUE MOVEMENT, a journey to your ability to become extraordinary, to develop a sustained performance that will separate and differentiate you in a world continually marginalized by common experiences.

DAZZLING BLUE is the latest strategic platform from Stephen Harvill and Creative Ventures. With DAZZLING BLUE you will be immersed in a multimedia experience specifically designed to provide you with a simple three part plan to start you on the journey to extraordinary.

The death of effective planning lies in our desire for “more”. We believe that more allows us to gain ground, to move forward, but the reality is that more leads to complexity. The more complex a model, the less likely that model is to become reality.

Creative Ventures presents a dynamic, multimedia, and interactive learning experience in strategic planning.

• The Love of Complexity: Why we move towards complexity?
• Simple vs. Easy: The key difference.
• Are Systems Always the Solution?
• The space between cause and effect.
• The Power of 3: A powerful strategic model with only 3 parts.
• Architects of Time: How to create TIME impact.
• Band of Thinkers: The advantage of teams.
• Thoughtful Reduction: A discipline of thinking that brings the model together.

Companies don’t suffer from a lack of ideas; they suffer from a lack of knowing what to do to make an idea impactful. They lack any sort of process around the development, implementation and measurement of ideas. In fact, according to the Maurer Group, 78% of companies have no idea system at all which leads to an average failure rate of 70% for new ideas
launched. 70%!

Ideas vanish from a lack of understanding, a lack of agreement and an utter lack of engagement. For over 25 years Creative Ventures has been in the business of creating and developing ideas. We find our success in THE IDEA FACTORY, a simple, efficient and repeatable process for providing a systemic approach to the development of ideas. THE IDEA FACTORY provides a place for ideas to gain form, to discover function, and through a committed process, find value.

Looking to find a home for your ideas?

Welcome to THE IDEA FACTORY!

A fundamental aspect of success is focus. Successful companies develop such intense emphasis on their business and their markets playing field that, to their benefit, creates a supreme level of knowledge. This type of knowledge tends to develop a myopic sense of vision. Just outside their laser like concentration lies a world of ideas and strategic tactics that, when discovered and leveraged, can create new and exciting opportunities.

Welcome to The Beyond Series, a customized connected cycle of new ideas that the global business community has put into successful application. When these concepts are applied and implemented they can lift your business to new levels that separate and differentiate you in a commoditized world.