Loud Thinking April 29, 2015 at 01:58PM
THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review
April 29, 2015
Prime Your Team for Creative Thinking
Innovative thinking is fueled when a wide range of talents, skills, and traits come together. If you want to enhance the creative potential of your team, develop the diversity of their skills. Here are a few ways to get started:
Build expertise. Send your team to professional conferences, or arrange training sessions to help them gain new skills.
Take field trips. Arrange a site visit to a customer or even to a competitor. Or observe best practices in an unfamiliar industry. For example, an airline hoping to improve customer service might visit a clothing retailer known for its excellence in that area.
Host creative events. Bring in outside speakers to give talks or workshops.
Seek additional resources. Gather your team to watch and discuss a TED talk, or form an ad hoc reading club to discuss books and articles of interest.
Adapted from Innovative Teams (20-Minute Manager).
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