EP. 29 7 Ways to Develop a Creative Team

According to Denise Jacobs, Author of Banish Your Inner Critic, one of the greatest ways to strengthen a hybrid or virtual team is to lower the fear of failure and encourage people to bring out their creativity. Everyone has their unique creative gifts and by supporting your team to unleash theirs. Denise's most powerful strategy to unleash creativity is to promote failure. In today's changing environment, perhaps building up a tolerance to try fail and try again is the best way for a team to achieve great results from anywhereMany people believe that they are not creative. This belief is a myth that is holding them back from leveraging the creative power that they really have. In fact, creativity is a top desired skill in the workplace. Creativity is a skill that only humans have. It’s one of the main skills that set us apart as humans. But how do you develop it? First, uncover what you love doing and can’t stand doing. Then, increase your awareness of what you enjoy, and see where you are the most creative. Lastly, take that and start to capitalize upon it. 7 Ways to Build a Creative Team1. Get in touch with your own creativityIf you don’t believe yourself to be a creative person, ask yourself, how are you creative? What part of your day do you identify yourself using your creativity? The first step in developing your own creativity starts with recognizing that you are creative.2. Role Model BehaviorsThe first thing you should do to spark creativity on your team is to role model behaviors.By role modeling the  behaviors first, you give your team permission to take on behaviors they need to spark their own creativity. 3. Develop your curiosity & Pretend to Not Be The ExpertDenise explained the importance for you to pretend that you don’t know what you know. She calls this releasing the tyranny of the expert. Working through your entire day as “the expert” blocks you from receiving valuable input. If you want to be a more creative leader, pretend to not be the expert and see what you learn.4. Fail Failure is how we learn, and failure forces you to be creative. If you want to reframe failure, fail on purpose. Deliberately do something wrong or poorly. Denise has teams do an exercise where they write the worst poem that they can possibly write. Then they discover what they learned from it. 5. Seek SurpriseTo seek out surprise, make a surprise journal. Answer the questions located in our blog. Seeking out surprises helps us become more creative. 6. Understand the mechanics of flow so you can be in it.To develop your creativity, learn to lay the foundations and set the stage for flow. Look back to times where you’ve been in a creative flow state, and you've been in the zone, think about what was happening. What you didn't realize at the time, was that in that flow state, there’s an intersection of skill and challenge. When you are walking that fine line, you get into a flow state. The way you stay in that flow state is when your skills and the challenge are equal. 7. Leverage the Power of PlayToo many people take work too seriously, underestimating the value the role play has in effectiveness. When people play, they are more productive, and do things better.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.