63 Ways to Stimulate Employee Creativity and Innovativeness

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Apart from a #0. Bottom-up approach, I. In what other ways can an organization stimulate creativity and innovation in its employees? II. What conditions and strategies are needed to support these approaches? Thanks for your ideas...

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		#1. Training in Creativity Methods Dr zahra gheidar, Consultant, Iran, Member
	More than 7 years experience in creativity classes, showed me that in order to maintain and nurture creativity, several issues must be considered. Although elements of creativity are in human nature, they are during life destroyed by training methods. Creativity can manifest in the conscious and non-conscious. With non-conscience I mean things like children 's creativity or adults when they do something without awareness of related concepts and processes. One of the most important ways to stimulate creativity and innovation is "training about creativity concepts and methods, because it will open up a new space for discovering creativity.

		#2. Appoint a Humble, Central Facilitator #3. ASK them how THEY believe C and I could be Stimulated Mandy Kendall, CEO, Canada, Member
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		#4. Implement Lateral Thinking Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States, Member
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		#5. Grant Freedom to Employees #6. Provide Support by Managers DANNY SUSIKWANA, Accountant, Zambia, Member
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		#7. Create an Environment of Inquisitiveness Herman, Manager, South Africa, Member
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		#8. Organize Assistance to help Incubation Ceferino Dulay, Jr., Philippines, Member
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		#9. Train Only Talented People Md Sufyan, Manager, India, Member
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		#10. Create a Safe, Fearless and Risk Taking Environment pawan jain, HR Consultant, India, Member
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		#11. Do Away with a Blame Culture #12. Institute Organisational Learning #13. Reward System Martin, Manager, Member
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		#14. Establish a Culture of Playing and Fun Michael Nestor, Management Consultant, United States, Member
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		On #3: Ask them Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
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		#15. Inititate Special Creativity Events, Competitions, Exhibitions, Projects Roberta Rizzo, Project Manager, Ireland, Member
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		#16. Organize the C&I Effort Satya Narayan, Strategy Consultant, India, Member
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		On #2 (Humble Facilitator): You are Right But Humility and Transparency are Rare GJ Tahash
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		#17. Create Trusted Expectations that we're Serious about C and I Alan Kennedy
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		#18. Empower Employees #19. Appoint an Innovation Committee for Best Ideas Albert Anthony D. Gavino, Analyst, Philippines, Member
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		#20. Avoid Rules, Regulations and Restrictions harish ramakrishnan, Management Consultant, Member
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		#21. Listen Actively #22. Provide Non-judgemental Feedback #23. Stop Immediate Filtering Jean-Marc Guillemette, Canada, Member
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		#24. Collectively Create an Innovation Strategy Alexander N. Raikov, Director, Russian Federation, Member
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		#25. Visualize the GAP between Current (IST) and Desired (SOLL) Situation Marcel Rietmaeker, Belgium, Member
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		#26. Determine the Focus Areas to Raise the Corporate Creativity Competence Susanne Kanter, Management Consultant, Member
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		#27. Use External People for (Extra) Creativity Anand Brambha, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
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		On #7: Inquisitiveness is not Enough for a Creative Solution, but is the First Step Julio Hennings, Professor, Peru, Member
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		#28. Top Management Must Recognize the Relevance of C&I Erico Ebeling, Consultant, Brazil, Member
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		On #5 and #20: Just Like you Encourage Children... Ching Quek, New Zealand, Member
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		#29. Delegate Tasks as Much as Possible Zaynabfaps adeleke, CEO, Nigeria, Member
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		#30. Give Employees Time to Think and Work on own Projects Rodel Carandang, Manager, Philippines, Member
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		#31: Find and Match the Right Employees #32. Provide Talent Career Development kvssiyer, Consultant, India, Member
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		#33. Look for a Freewheeling, Creative Thinking Mindset Ceferino Dulay, Jr., Philippines, Member
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		#34. Challenge Employees N.Prabha, Teacher, India, Member
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		#35. Unlearn Past Experiences and Impressions #36. Welcome and Encourage Diversity of Ideas srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member
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		#37. Look for Inspiration Outside the Own Company Borders Feyzal Peeroo, Accountant, Mauritius, Member
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		#38. Encourage All Staff to Do Things Slightly Differently Harp Minhas
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		#39. See this Change as an Investment and as a Strategy Martijnse, Management Consultant, Netherlands, Member
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		#40: Try to Focus the Creativity on CLIENT Requirements PEDRO PAULO COSTALLAT BRUNO, Project Manager, Brazil, Member
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		#41. Become a Problem-solving Organization Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
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		#42: Listen to Internal Customers too #43. Establish Informal and Transparent Communication #44. Establish a Flexi Budget for R&D Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member
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		If Creativity = Problem Solving, How do You Make it Happen? Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States, Member
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		#45. Create a Bottom-up Communication Platform Nelisa Koti
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		Creativity - the Recipe Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member
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		#46. Create an Innovation Club and give Parties Essentia, Coach, United States, Member
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		#47. Make Innovators Rediscover the Creativity in Their Inner Self Dr zahra gheidar, Consultant, Iran, Member
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		#48. Reengineering WAFULA BENJAMIN, CEO, Kenya, Member
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		On #39. See Innovation as a Strategic Effort rather than as Fixing Problems Ceferino Dulay, Jr., Philippines, Member
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		#49: Prize for Innovation #50: Avoid Routine Environment #51: Encourage Visiting Creative Events #52. Ask for Feedback on Events #53: Coffee Breaks #54. Plants in the Office GHESSASSI, Student (University), Morocco, Member
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		#55. Do not Mandate Creativity; Nurture It Alan Kennedy
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		The Skunk Works as Important Metaphor Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States, Member
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		On #30: Creativity and the Ampersand Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member
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		#56: Creative and Innovate Efforts Should Not Be Discouraged Ofori Cassandra, Teacher, Ghana, Member
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		On #56: Creativity, Innovation and Discipline Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
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		#57. Creativity is not an Exercise. It's an Attitude Bernhard Keim, Business Consultant, Germany, Premium Member
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		On #56: Creativity, Democracy, Leadership Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member
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		Transparency and Democracy are not Synonymous Except in Retrospect Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States, Member
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		The Leader's Trajectory Arif ur Rehman, Professor, Pakistan, Member
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		Management as a Performance Art Tom Wilson, HR Consultant, United States, Member
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		#58. Establish Employee-led Innovation Anneke Zwart, Student (University), Netherlands, Member
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		On #19. Innovation Committees and their Decisions Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
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		#61. Ask Many Challenging Questions Ceferino Dulay, Jr., Philippines, Member
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		#62. Give Innovators a Status they can be Proud Of Samoletov, Coach, Russian Federation, Member
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		#63. Create an Idea-driven Organization Prabhavathi A, Coach, India, Member
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