66% of US employees are bored and unhappy
In coming up with new ideas, teams are the engine and leaders provide the fuel.
According to a 2019 Gallup poll, 66% of US employees are bored and unhappy in their jobs.
Which members of your team fall into this category? Or have they already had enough and left?
It’s hard enough to keep staff motivated without the additional obstacles of remote working, new communication platforms, and furloughs.
And yet, it can be done. (One of my favorite quotes comes from “Britain’s Schindler” Sir Nicholas Winton: Nothing is impossible if it can be done.)
The good news is that there’s nothing like a good crisis for focusing the mind.
Through chaos comes opportunity
Done well, creative problem-solving pulls a team together while giving individuals renewed purpose.
Using the analogy of a generator for coming up with new ideas, teams are the engine and leaders provide the fuel (tools, time, space, and motivation) to produce creative potential. Even if teams are spread across a wide geographic area, we are lucky to live in a technological era where physical barriers are no longer a major impediment to working together.
It’s time to fire up the creative problem-solving engine if you’re currently asking these kinds of questions:
How do we prepare for the new normal?
How could we be flexible in response to future crises?
How can we fly the plane while we’re building it?
How do we stay productive?
How will we continue to have a real impact on the lives of the people we serve?
Using creative thinking enables you to generate new ideas and solve strategic problems while keeping staff engaged and building a stronger team.
Case study
An example of this was where I used my Light Bulb Thinking™ framework at a technical college that was experiencing a high level of student no-shows. They thought the problem was related to student attitude. They discovered that, instead, the problem was related to teacher availability outside of class. This shift in perspective led to changes in scheduling and new initiatives, and the college was delighted to see attendance rise at a level beyond their expectation.
I’m hired by leaders in visionary organizations to disrupt “business as usual” and bring serious fun to the workplace. Fun that moves them from future-planning overwhelm and unmotivated staff, to innovation and more productivity, cooperative learning, and ideas that can transform the entire organization.
Would you like to see what tapping into creative potential could look like for your team or organization? Arrange an exploratory call by emailing me at Ellia@ThePotentialCenter.com.
With the right support, any organization, team, and individual can learn creative ways to solve problems. The mission of The Potential Center™ is to simplify the creative problem-solving and innovation process to address urgent, pervasive and expensive problems. All while building stronger teams.
The Light Bulb Thinking™ framework demystifies and simplifies the creative problem-solving and innovation processes that open the door to fresh ideas and creative strategic solutions.
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