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6 Ways to Unleash Creativity in the Workplace
Tahsina:
5. Diversity Among Employees
How can different ideas exchange if everyone thinks in a similar manner? Employees with comparable backgrounds, qualifications, experience, etc creates a homogeneous working environment. Perhaps having such homogeneity between the employees will facilitate team-bonding and such, but when it comes to workplace creativity, a uniform and agreeable crowd leaves little room for ideas to flourish.
Rather than setting stringent recruitment prerequisites, you might consider giving more allowance in your criteria. Hire staffs from different knowledge and background and get them to mingle around in projects and even company events. Organize more informal settings between employees with dissimilar profiles for the interchanging of thoughts.
Tahsina:
6. Positive Working Environment
Sometimes, too serious a mindset can hinder creativity. Having fun during work allows one to be relaxed and that’s where one tends to get inspired with wonderful ideas. Needless to say, a stressful or even depressing work environment doesn’t give one the mood to think of doing things differently. The employee would only look forward to the end of the day.
Psychological studies have revealed that positive mood can spur creativity. The idea is that positive mood awards us with greater flexibility in thinking because our perspectives are widened. We become more open-minded in that sense and are willing to explore alternatives. Knowing such findings now, incorporating fun into the work through team-bonding activities or retreats every once in a while can be a crucial element in injecting creativity in the workplace.
nujhat.eng:
to be positive and be in positive environment, its difficult to set. But take anything positively can make the toughest thing easier.
Afroza Akhter Tina:
Sounds easy and cool but requires lot of practice(I guess) :)
Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer,Dept.of English
Daffodil International University
A.S. Rafi:
I have shared a similar article in my previous post on employee morale , thanks for joining the league!
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