What is a Navigator Journal?
Navigator Journal pages distill creativity and innovation practice into a proven inspiring toolkit. Even the note pages offer an innovative approach to create more results. There are six themes for editorial pages.
Listening, learning, and note taking
Research tells us that taking notes is effective for learning, insight, and creativity. Learn new ways to take notes as a platform for future ideas.
Pages include:
- Challenge yourself to innovate: define inspiring challenges
- Make notes, capture learning, create ideas: an innovative way to take notes
- How to learn more every day, any day: be open, curious, diligent, and involved
- Where do great ideas come from? Ultimately, you are the source of your great ideas.
- 5 ways to enhance collaboration and innovation
Improve problem-solving
Everyone solves problems every day. We work on our own and in groups. Nurture your skills to be a creative problem solver. Use these pages to challenge your thinking. The best solutions combine discipline and creativity. Pages include:
- Not another team meeting! What type of team thinking do you need?
- Plan your participation strategy for in-person and virtual meetings: tips for success
- Solving the problem of problem-solving: three phases
- Detailed problem-solving process: use the disciplines to improve your results
Enhancing teamwork and collaboration
It is easy to work with people who think like you. What about people who do not think like you? Learn to work with all people. Pages include:
- Working with people who do not think like you: notice your style of thinking
- Strategies to communicate your ideas: how should people hear your ideas?
- What is a great idea? Develop intuitive skills for judging ideas
- Notice the ideas you think are “great”: capture great ideas that inspire you
- How to avoid being killed by the creativity killers: capture any creativity killers you hear
- Creativity creators who inspire you: save quotes that are meaningful to you
Use idea management to solve your challenges
Everyone faces problems and opportunities. These are our challenges. Your insights shape ideas to solve these challenges. Use these pages to manage your ideas, from insights to opportunities. Be a creator. Be a giver of ideas. Pages include:
- Making notes, managing ideas, solving challenges: four steps for great opportunities
- Manage your ideas to build great opportunities: use these prompts to design career-building ideas
- Challenge pages for designing solutions: use challenge pages to manage four challenges
- Collecting your ideas: capture your ‘hot’ and ‘loony’ ideas (loony ideas can never work unless…)
- Passing on great ideas: Post It® Notes are a great idea. Use them.
12 Months, 12 Challenges
Create your idea management plan. Look ahead 3, 6, or 12 months to define your challenges: opportunities to create, and problems to solve. This plants the seeds for future solutions.
- Where do you need innovative thinking to get the results you want?
- When do you need these innovative solutions?
Assign one challenge to the month when you will create a solution. Don’t be overwhelmed. Start with two or three challenges. Add more later. Work on one each month. Gain confidence in the process as you create ideas when you need them.
A unique design of note pages
Thousands of people have used this research-proven design to elevate how they record what is important for success.
Left-hand note page: grid for idea sketches and visual thinking.
Right-hand note page: lined with prompts to capture insights, ideas, questions, quotes or references, and actions.
Wow! That’s a Great Idea!
Your note pages need not be works of art; they need to be works of imagination. They help shape new possibilities. Note pages can be messy as long as they make sense to you.
You can use it like a regular note book. Once you can see a new idea in action, use digital tools to formalize your vision.
When Navigator concept was conceived, we explained our vision to help people be more creative to potential users. We kept hearing, “Wow! That’s a great idea.” People saw it as novel, vibrant and inspiring. We want you to create ideas that you see as novel, vibrant, and inspiring. We wanted you to be excited by your ideas. This became our cover theme.
