Business owners often talk about the desire to bring more creativity to their company and their personal life. Creativity certainly will have different meaning for each person, however, a common denominator in a business context is coming up with creative solutions for your customers or processes.
How does someone unlock creativity? Is there a way to increase the likelihood of getting your creativity quotient higher?
I recently read an article that quoted Deanna Berg and Chuck Dymer, who have been speakers at various Vistage events, on ways to unlock creativity. Here are a few tips.
Business Creativity
- Brainstorm session with your team where the session has the following principles.
- Defer judgement…criticism derails creativity.
- Freewheeling…no idea is a bad one.
- Quantity not quality…get the ideas out there.
- Speed is important…impose a time limit on the session.
Personal Creativity
- Consider the following for personal creativity boost.
- Change a habit…change the time you work out.
- Experiment with something new…. learn a new hobby.
- Find a new path…. take a different route to work.
- Change an attitude…. take something that annoys you and change your attitude about it.
Carve out time on a regular basis to get creative. It can be the best time spent to build your business.
Here’s how taking time for creativity can propel your business to new levels!
Mike