BE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE
Ken Robinson’s book ‘Out of our minds: learning to be creative’ (2011) is one of those great reads about learning to be creative. In Chapter 1, Robinson writes about the importance of the imagination, creativity and innovation, and the value of reframing our potential.
Can we really learn to be creative? How do we harness the imagination so that we can really reframe our potential? What do you really want in your mind so that you allow it to become the way you want it to be every day? You can learn to be creative and you can imagine and harness what you imagine every day. Engage your total body and mind in an activity that will motivate and inspire you – it only needs to be about 10-15 minutes a day. Or read a book that helps you to explore your imagination and share your imaginings with a friend or your partner or your work colleague.
Whatever action you take now that is positive is a start to setting a new foundation for your future. The more you think about how to feed your mind and the more you take time to allow your mind to explore, the more creative your thinking can be: and eventually you will reframe your potential.
How is this important today? Whether you are an entrepreneur, self-employed professional, changing career paths, work for a large or small organization, getting clear on what you can do to enable creativity and innovation in your life and your workplace provides for better outcomes. In their 2016 study, Huynh Thao Tai and Nguyen Quynh Mai (Intl Jnl of Organisational Analysis, Vol 24, No 3) reported that the psychological aspects of a workplace such as communication, social interaction and atmosphere as well as consultation significantly affect creativity.
How can organisations and individuals create an environment for creativity and innovation to flourish and strengthen employee satisfaction, and, ultimately better individual and corporate innovative outcomes? Huynh Thao Tai and Nguyen Quynh Mai (2016) suggest that employee creativity has a positive correlation with organisational innovative capability. What can be done? Really, this is a great question, isn’t it. Let’s start with the purpose of the organization or the individual’s purpose. Is there clarity? Are values aligned? If not, conduct an exercise or have someone who knows what they are doing, facilitate strategy setting/clarification with you or your organisation.
Then, determine how well you or your employees are behind the strategy? Are you or your employees motivated and enabled to be creative? In what ways do you allow yourself to think out of the box? Do you know how to think out of the box? What do you do with your thinking that is outside of the box? One way is to identify your creative and innovative DNA and manifest it so that you can achieve what you want that will better your life and your world. Some of us put into tomorrow and the next day, and maybe the next that we will start on giving our brains and minds the opportunity to think outside the box. The question is, why wait when you really know you can do that today and achieve the creative and innovative state right now. You can do this and much more.
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