Tag: Business
Promoting Creativity in the Workplace
Innovation is a driving force in business these days and gives companies their competitive edge. So how do you promote creativity and innovation in the workplace? In the article “Why You Should Treat Your Employees Like Children” Anita Campbell offers suggestions on how to foster innovation through encouraging creativity among employees. Here is a summary of her tips.
- Encourage employees to ask questions and find answers.
- Appreciate creativity even if it fails.
- Know which rules can be broken to foster creativity.
- Have fun and don’t expect the workplace to be serious all of the time.
- Expect with creative employees you might have more drama.
- Give employees slack to try things on their own.
- Let employees explore departments outside of theirs.
- Allow employees time alone to think.
- Don’t get hung up on being too organized.
- Encourage friendships among different departments.
- Set employees up with mentors.
To read the full article click here.
Have any examples of how you have inspired creativity in your workplace? Share them in the comments!
Doing More With Less
Computerworld’s 2011 Forecast survey of IT executives found that most viewed spending restraints as the biggest challenge for the upcoming year and few expect to reverse the cuts made over the last two years.
So what does that mean for the future of today’s businesses? This kind of situation can be handled many ways. Companies can start charging more for their products and services, they can cut the more costly products and services they have to offer – but in the end all that does is hurt the end user. The way to produce quality results is to do more with less – re-evaluate the way you do business instead of just looking at the cost of the end result. Are there ways to implement technology you are currently using to automate processes and cut down on your workload? Are there new technologies that are more efficient at doing what you need to do?