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Innovation is the key to long term success for any business. If you coast along, doing what you’ve always done, you won’t be able to keep up with the competition as they roll out new ideas. To get your employees away from only focusing on their day-to-day responsibilities, encourage them to include innovation as part of their regular work activities. Check out these four ways to get your team to think more creatively.

 

  1. Spruce Up Your Surroundings

Environment plays a major role in sparking creativity, so spruce up your surroundings. In your immediate workspace, include prints with inspirational quotes or any imagery that your team enjoys and encourage them to add personal touches to their individual workspaces. Also, try to completely change environments periodically by taking your brainstorming sessions elsewhere, such as to a coffee shop or even outdoors.

 

  1. Problem Solve with Dream Solutions

Thinking creatively is a skill that can be developed with practice. To help your team get into an innovation mindset, regularly challenge them to stretch their minds. At brainstorming meetings, pose relevant workplace or industry problems and ask them to come up with their dream solutions, without considering budget or plausibility. Even if nothing comes of it, the exercise encourages your employees to not limit themselves and to think outside the box.

 

  1. Learn Something New Together

Your team can’t think big and stretch their imaginations if they are always focused on the same work in front of them. Inspiration can come from anywhere, even places that seem completely unrelated to your work. Integrate learning something new together, such as reading the same book or article and comparing insights or trying a random activity or class, into your regular workload.

 

  1. Make it a Consistent Priority

Unless you actively carve out time for your team to think creatively, it’s likely they may end up putting it off to focus on more seemingly urgent tasks. Prevent brainstorming from being delegated to “whenever there’s time” by making it a consistent priority. Schedule time for creative thinking into your regular staffing meetings or set aside time on an ongoing basis devoted solely to idea generation.

 

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