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Inspire creative action to control attrition
Today’s workplaces have personalised cubicles and comfy-creative ambience. The new age workplace is all about creative and whacky decor, to spur the creative juices of the employees. While creative decor is just one of the many ways, employers are keen on formulating many other ‘inspirations’ that could inspire some real creative action from their employees. If you thought your educational and technical qualifications
were pretty impressive and could bag you the job, think again. Employers are also looking for a dash of creativity on your resume. Be it in the form of your list of extra-curriculars or simply the way you put across your achievements; innovation is the key here.
Reality shows on television are passe. The new trend is to hold contests at workplaces, that above all eggs creativity and boosts participation. Contests like the ‘most creative department’ or the individual with the most number of creative ideas are being encouraged.
An important aspect of being creative is to challenge norms.
Questioning established workplace mores and coming up with reasons or better replacements is a great way to boost logical and lateral thinking.
Lean games, puzzles and toys that stimulate better thinking abilities are being used before and during meetings, to propel employees to come up with great solutions. Humour is another aspect that forges a light-headed, yet loaded approach.
A happy-go-lucky workplace is a dream come true for employees. Perhaps, you could get your employees to come up with jokes everyday and share it on the common network. A creative resource library in the cafeteria is a great way to get minds thinking. Your employees could stock up the library with books they have read and loved.
Encourage communication. Unless your employees do not peep into each other’s cabins and do not exchange a few giggles and high fives, it wouldn’t work. At their communicative best employees can not only make the ambience friendly and jovial, but can also brainstorm and pave way for the emergence of ideas that can really cater to company needs.
Weekly doses of crossword puzzles, jigsaws and a lot more, involving the current state of affairs of the company can definitely act as an informant to your employees, besides sparking quick thinking and creativity.
Your staff could go on picnics and hang out together, during those times of the financial year, when things get stressful.
Creative sessions are not only stress-busters, but also tend to throw up some novel ideas.
Creativity needs to be applauded and rewarded. Provide incentives to your most creative employees, even if it is just an extra day off. It means a lot and also encourages employee innovation.
Presentations and meetings are times when employees must be motivated to bring in some element of creativity in their mode of presentation and in the manner in which they put across the idea. This not only transforms dry technical matter into interesting facts, but also gets grey cells ticking.
Evidently, a creative workplace is one that can help reduce attrition, make jobs more challenging and innovative and above all, enjoyable.
Freedom and delegation of tasks is definitely the major way to enforce creativity; an autocratic model of leadership leaves little room for such luxuries.
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