INTUITION, IMAGINATION AND INSPIRATION<\/em><\/p>\nPerformance poetry, as the name implies, is written for the stage not the page.\u00a0 As an art form it is the entrepreneur of the spoken word.\u00a0 It has a freer form, flows, leaps, raps and hip hops.\u00a0 Its style mirrors the mind and emotions of the successful entrepreneur, who must retain the capacity to adjust, adapt, and take risks, to be inspirational and creative.\u00a0 By inviting performance poetry into the arena a company not only learns the value of these skills, but also an ability to articulate with language that emotionally engages rather than distances and dehumanises.<\/p>\n
Teeming e-mails and nihilistic twitters, that are mere crumbs from the banqueting table of human communication, ensure that our minds become so cluttered we become discombobulated. In an attempt to decipher at the speed of the web we cease to listen. In fact we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
More than 60 per cent of communication is non-verbal.\u00a0 Is it any wonder that communication and interaction end up in disarray?\u00a0 All too often, business language can deteriorate into insular jargon, lacking emotional engagement, let alone clarity of meaning where it is most needed.\u00a0 Far from motivating staff, it can lead to undermining, blocking the free flow of interaction, inspired management and acknowledgement.<\/p>\n
In the business of poetry you learn to eliminate unnecessary fogging words and craft a story with the minimum of words. Its performance provides confidence building and communication skills, since you will need to use your intuition, imagination and inspiration to create it.\u00a0 These are also vital tools in managing the fear factor, focusing on business growth and, most importantly, motivating staff in an economic climate that needs to be seen as challenging not fire fighting.<\/p>\n
Listening to a performance poet also fires the imagination. Where we listen from is central to our interactions and dialogue.\u00a0 Listening from our own cluttered minds and anxious focus we cease to be engaged with the person or people with whom we are in communication.\u00a0 This is why \u201cPoetry Matters\u201d because without it we cease to dream.<\/p>\n
LISTENING, LAUGHTER AND EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT<\/em><\/p>\nTo write performance poetry requires emotional engagement with oneself and others, for its aim is to bring the audience into the world of the poet. It also requires humour, which is a vital tool of successful leadership and an integral part of human nature.\u00a0 By observing life poetically, we can often find the humour in the most banal as well as the most tragic of situations and carry ourselves forward.\u00a0 Laughter is a great stimulator of endorphins.\u00a0 Without it we become stuck in a hamster wheel.\u00a0 The hamster has an advantage over us \u2013 it knows it\u2019s a hamster and is doing what hamsters do best \u2013 running round in circles.<\/p>\n
It needs an artist\u2019s eye of the world to see both the minutiae of paperclips and the bigger issues of passion, death and rock n\u2019 roll! By learning to view business and its challenges metaphorically and with humour, it becomes possible to focus in an entirely new and revitalised way.\u00a0 A paperclip can be just a paperclip to a business mind.\u00a0 To the creative mind it can inspire new ways of exploring problems, like viewing staff difficulties. It may indeed be a metaphor for clipping words together to ensure that they do not fall by the wayside, but are filled with attention- motivating thoughts.\u00a0 So too, the volatility of markets and downturns might be viewed as existential death experiences from which much can be learnt about leadership.<\/p>\n
Through performance poetry the mind is moved from the urgency of the next meeting, sales targets, and profit margins to a place of ease, release and new thinking, moving from the past and the future into the moment to listen in new ways.\u00a0 This is why \u201cPoetry Matters\u201d for the moment is all there is.<\/p>\n
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Louise Taylor of Taylor Motivation is a Creative Dynamics motivational coach and performance poet with more than 30 years of business and arts experience. \u00a0 To learn more about how Poetry Matters motivational talks and coaching can build business confidence and improve performance call her on 07772 464672 or e-mail for a copy of her marketing story: enquiries@taylormotivation.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\nPerformance Poetry works better when spoken aloud \u2013 so share this with someone \u2013 communicate creativity\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\nShout the Sun<\/em><\/p>\n(inspired by Liam, aged 12)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\nby Louise Taylor, Performance Poet<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\nWhen life is tough<\/em><\/p>\nAnd full of stuff<\/em><\/p>\nNot wanted<\/em><\/p>\nScheme a dream<\/em><\/p>\nHullabaloo<\/em><\/p>\nYip Yap<\/em><\/p>\nRip Rap<\/em><\/p>\nTwist and shout<\/em><\/p>\nThere\u2019ll be no doubt<\/em><\/p>\nYou\u2019ll win through<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\nWhen you\u2019re stuck<\/em><\/p>\nIn a rut<\/em><\/p>\nWith a belly<\/em><\/p>\nFull of jelly<\/em><\/p>\nThat turns you inside up<\/em><\/p>\nTake a drop of joy<\/em><\/p>\nBecome your favourite toy<\/em><\/p>\nLeap and lark<\/em><\/p>\nFrom dawn til dark<\/em><\/p>\nLook up not down<\/em><\/p>\nBe the clown<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\nWander barefoot in the sand<\/em><\/p>\nFeel the fun inside your hand<\/em><\/p>\nPlick pluck it<\/em><\/p>\nTuck it<\/em><\/p>\nUnder your chin<\/em><\/p>\nTake a break<\/em><\/p>\nBe a snake<\/em><\/p>\nWiggle your toe<\/em><\/p>\nThen let go<\/em><\/p>\nShout the sun<\/em><\/p>\nBe your fun!<\/em><\/p>\nSparkle star on the beach<\/em><\/p>\nNothing is ever out of reach.<\/em><\/p>\n
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