Recent surveys and research conducted by McKinsey in their Global Innovation Initiative have highlighted that innovation and creativity are both extremely critical to business growth today. While 84 percent of all executives agree with the importance of creativity and innovation in the corporate world today, only 6 percent are actually satisfied with how their organization and workforce are performing on this front.
Creativity and innovation are both metrics that come through the right environment. Regardless of how well they have scored in your aptitude test, employees will require the right environment to blossom their creativity and get the right innovation in your products and services. Sadly, most organizations fall short when it comes to providing this environment and rue the missed opportunities later.
In this article, we take a look at the importance of providing the right creative platform to your team. It is highly essential that you create an environment focused on problem solving and creativity.
Encourage an Inclusive Team Environment
A genuinely inclusive team environment can work wonders for your organization. Such an environment is highly essential for your team and allows your employees to work together and achieve a remarkable difference in the creative results they deliver.
In an environment based on teamwork and inclusivity, employees get to work together in departments and spark creativity from within. Innovation flows freely and helps achieve the results that employers desire.
Promote Creativity in Office Design
Besides just working on teamwork and inclusivity, organizations should also focus on their office design to incorporate creativity within it. Design and the colors within it play an important role in inspiring creativity. You should work on the ergonomics of your workspace as well to ensure that employees avoid backaches and other physical impediments that block creativity.
Provide Freedom
No employee can think creatively in a micromanaged environment. If you want to inspire creativity, you will have to take a step back and allow employees to have some freedom in the way they think and their decisions. This freedom eventually empowers individuals to expand their research and make innovative decisions.
Support Employees in Risks
Carrying on from the point above, managers should also support employees in the risks they take. Give employees the freedom they require, but also learn to support decisions and steps that employees take using this freedom. The freedom and flexibility will account for nothing if employees don’t have your support for their creative endeavors.
At JS Benefits Group, we can help discuss and identify the ways to inspire creativity in the workplace. Get in touch with us to know more about what we offer and how we can help you.
