How can you foster creative thinking among your team?
Creativity fosters innovation, but nurturing creative thinking isn’t a top priority in most corporate environments. A lack of time, linear thinking from leadership, and a fear of failure are just a few common barriers to embracing creativity in the workplace. Breaking through these barriers requires intentional effort, open-minded leadership, and a culture that celebrates experimentation and learning from failure.
The experts in this interactive EXLEARN Talks episode offer practical strategies for enhancing personal and team creativity, including doodling to stimulate creative thinking, engaging in improvisational warm-up activities to foster team connection, and colliding diverse ideas to spark innovative thinking.
Highlights from the Panelists:
“Creative vitality is essential to your work life. Most employees aren’t connected to this vitality in their work life… If you’re [experiencing a lot of] stress and fear, there’s no way that you can simultaneously take a deep breath, chill, and let your mind wander and go to creative spaces.”
– David Whitley, Senior Solutions Consultant and Change Strategist at TiER1 Performance
“You don’t know how people will react [to your ideas], so to be co-creative you have to be vulnerable. You have to be incredibly curious…[and] let go of your [ideas] and look at other people’s, which [gives] you more ideas. Lastly, you just [have to] collide things. When you collide ideas, you create something new…but you have to be at a state of trust and openness and [let] go of some ego and [practice] vulnerability to do it.”
– Gary Hirsch, Co-Founder and Partner at On Your Feet
“If you develop [doodling as a] creativity habit, it’ll help you do three things: generate new ideas, break through creative blocks, and improve memory retention.”
– Nicole Dalichau, Senior Solutions Consultant and Learning Strategist at TiER1 Performance
