6 ways to stop creativity in its tracks
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Every company wants to foster creativity. Unfortunately, not every company knows how to do so effectively. If innovation is on your company's to-do list, then you should check out this Psyblog article to make sure you haven't accidently set up a creativity slaughterhouse. You're in for a nasty surprise if you company fits any of these six creativity-killing categories. For example:
Role mismatch
One of the easiest ways of killing creativity is by giving a job to the wrong person. It could be an assignment or the whole role. Employees need to feel their abilities are stretched, but that the assignment is within their grasp.
Within many organisation the usual system is to give the most urgent work to the person who appears most eligible (i.e. is most senior/most junior/has the least work/is the next cab off the rank etc.). Managers typically fail to really look at the requirements of the job/assignment and then at the skills of the employee. Mismatches are a recipe for an unsatisfactory and creativity-free result.
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