Suggest eight ways of creating an environment suitable for the nourishing of creativity in an enterprise.

Ways of creating an environment suitable for the flourishing of creativity

1. Promote regular team brainstorming sessions, which allow employees a chance produce a high quantity of ideas.
Once you have a large amount of ideas, analyze and choose those ideas that are of high quality

2. Create an encouraging work environment. If employees see that their ideas are encouraged and accepted, they will be more likely to be creative leading to potential innovation in the workplace.

3. Create a collaborative work environment.

Creativity and innovation can stem from employees working together to reach-a goal. Foster communication between employees and between departments and reward those that work together to solve problems.

4. Encourage, your team members to take risks.

The opposite of creativity is fear. Employees won’t be creative or innovative if they fear a backlash from failure. Create an environment that is free from fear of failure; treat your employees' failures as a learning tool, rather than a means for passing around blame.

5. Be willing to stretch the rule book.

Leaders who promote creativity among their people don’t disregard guidelines and policies, but they inherently know when they need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken. David Kelley, founder of Ideo Product Development said, the most important thing I have learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone’s got to follow the rules.

6. Stress the importance of creativity.

Ensure all your staff knows that you want to hear their ideas. Unless they understand how innovating your business processes can keep your firm competitive, your efforts at encouraging creative thinking risk falling flat.

7. Make time for brainstorming.

Allocate time for new ideas to emerge. For example set aside a slot at the end of meetings for brainstorming, hold regular group works and arrange team days out. You should also give individuals the space to reflect. Privately on their work if you think they need it

8. Actively-solicit ideas.

Place suggestion boxes around the workplace, appeal for new ideas to solve particular problems and, quite literally, keep your door open to new ideas

9. Train staff in innovation Techniques.

Your staff may be able to bounce an idea around, but be unfamiliar with the .skills involved in creative problem-solving. You may find training sessions in formal techniques such as brainstorming, lateral thinking and mind-mapping worthwhile.

10. Cross-fertilize.

Broadening people’s experiences can be a great way to spark ideas Short-term job swaps and shadowing in-house can introduce d fresh perspective to roles. Encourage people to look at how other businesses do things, even those in other sectors, and consider, how they can be adapted or improved,

11. Challenge the way staff work.

Encourage employees to keep looking anew at the way they approach- their work'; Ask people whether they have considered alternative ways of working and what might be achieved by doing things differently.

12. Be supportive.

Respond enthusiastically to all ideas and never make someone. Offering an idea, however hopeless, feel foolish. Give even the most apparently outlandish of ideas a. chance to be aired.

13. Tolerate mistakes.

A certain [amount of risk-taking is inevitable with creative thinking. Allow people to learn from their mistakes. Never put off the creative flow by penalizing those' whose ideas don’t work out.

14. Reward creativity.

Motivate individuals or teams who come up with winning ideas by actively recognizing creativity, for example through an awards scheme. You could even demonstrate your recognition that not all ideas work out by rewarding those who just have a rich flow of suggestions, regardless of whether they are put into action at work.

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marto answered the question on January 30, 2019 at 07:50