Cultivating Creativity In The Workplace

Let’s commence with some information to pave the foundation for this online program.

Note that additional reading resources that provide further details on this topic.

Learn how an organisation’s work environment is the most important and hardest creative element to design for, as it can enhance or detract from creativity by influencing the other three internal components in the Creative Elements Model.

Then undertake 3 reflective activities to determine:

1. What work environment factors are important to support your intrinsic motivation?

2. What do you consider important to support your intrinsic motivation?, and

3. What should I look for in a future employer?

When it comes to the success of creative projects, management and supervision rate highly in the research. Learn more about the clear links between work environment and creativity and the practical areas of focus when aiming to enhance creativity in the workplace.

The six areas are challenge, freedom, resources, work-group features, supervisory encouragement and organisational support. Then undertake an activity to assess to what degree you’re managing for creativity and, if not, where you might focus to develop your own, and staff, creative competencies.

In the VUCA world, is it enough to just manage or is there more we can aim for, recognising the complex social, environmental and economic problems our world is faced with? These modern problems, where past experience may not be sufficient, require more novel and, yes, creative ways of approaching them.

Let’s explore the dominant trends underway that necessitate a change in the way we live, work and create. While some of these we’ll all experience over our lifetime, others are more applicable to the world young people are entering. They all point to the need to develop creative skillsets to assist to navigate the new economy.