Nurturing creativity in your professional surroundings

Nurturing creativity in your professional surroundings

I am collecting inputs to better understand how important it is to encourage creativity at work and how to best do that.
Thanks for taking time out to tell us more about your experience on how much creativity matters and how it can be enhanced in the workspace.
How important is creativity in your work?

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How creative do you think you are?

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How important is it for you to become more creative than you are at the moment?

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What is your definition of creativity?
If nothings comes to mind you can also just type 2-3 words.
Next we are going to find how creativity is encouraged in your professional surroundings.

Professional surroundings can mean different things according to your situation: workspace, office, team, business, studio, company, practice, atelier, crew, group.
To which extent is creativity encouraged in your professional surroundings?

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How important is to encourage creativity in your professional surroundings more than it is done at the moment?

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Do you have practical ideas on how to do it?
Thanks for sharing your inputs so far!

As last step, we are going to assess practical ways to nurture creativity in professional surroundings.
1. PSYCOLOGICAL SAFETY

Psychological safety is the belief that you won't be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes

PSYCOLOGICAL SAFETY

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Do you feel psychological safe in your professional surroundings?
Do you think it is urgent to make your workspace more psychologicaly safe?

2. CREATIVITY TRAININGS - DOMAIN UNSPECIFIC

Creativity trainings that are domain unspecific are trainings that occur in a well defined amount of time, i.e. 2 hours or 4 hours, to train participants general creative muscles, without focussing on a specific theme, i.e. automotive or dance, and without focussing on a specific challenge, i.e. a new commercial product or a new song.

CREATIVITY TRAININGS - DOMAIN UNSPECIFIC

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Do you feel creativity trainings can encourage creativity in your professional surroundings?
Do you think it is urgent for your professional surroundings to offer more creativity trainings?

3.CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING SESSIONS

Creative Problem Solving (CPS) involves breaking down a problem to understand it, generating ideas to solve the problem and evaluating those ideas to find the most effective solutions. It uses techniques to make the problem solving process engaging and collaborative. Unlike Creativity Trainings that are domain unspecific, creative problem solving sessions are specific to a dOmani and/or challenge. For the sake of this form, Design Thinking sessions are also included in the definition Creative Problem Solving sessions.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING WORKSHOPS

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Do you think creative problem solving sessions can encourage creativity in your professional surroundings?
Do you think it is urgent for your professional surroundings to offer more creativity trainings?

4. CREATIVITY WORKGROUP

A Creativity workgroup is a group of professionals within a given organizations that is responsible for collecting ideas, organizing and testing activities and suggesting new procedures to enhance creativity in the workspace.

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Did you come across a person or a team that can be described as a creativity workgroup at your work ?
Do you think it is urgent to set up a creativity workgroup in your professionals surroudings?

5. DIVERSE TEAMS

Diverse teams are more creative because a person’s individual creativity is enhanced by their ability to integrate different points of view—something that many of us learn when interacting with people from different backgrounds.

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Do you work in a diverse team?
Do you think it is urgent to make your team more diverse?

6. A STIMULATING PHYSICAL WORKSPACE

Think if the place where you work, and the way it is set up with markers and whiteboards for brainstorming, areas to relax, color, light, temperature.

A STIMULATING PHYSICAL WORKSPACE

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Do you work in stimulating physical workspace?
Do you think it is urgent to make your physical workspace more stimulating?

What are the 3 most important ingredients to encourage creativity?

1. PSYCOLOGICAL SAFETY2. CREATIVITY TRAININGS - DOMAIN UNSPECIFIC3. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING SESSIONS4. CREATIVITY WORKGROUP5. DIVERSE TEAMS6. A STIMULATING PHYSICAL WORKSPACEOther
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