<p>In order to make sure that the team members make the most of their creativity, leaders should focus on creating working spaces where individuals feel at ease with each other and, therefore, feel free to share their ideas. Furthermore, it is essential that your team's creativity is acknowledged and praised. </p>


Encouraging creativity within the team

<p>When encouraging your team's creativity, you might find it useful to try all the new ideas they provide as soon as these have been introduced.</p><p><span>This way, your employees will feel trusted and appreciated. Moreover, you will most certainly have a nice surprise discovering that, at the very end, all this results also in an increase in productivity.</span></p>


Handling your team's ideas in the best way

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<h3>We don't need more creativity</h3>
<p>To hear many business leaders tell it, creativity is in short supply. They want their people to be more creative. But their people are already creative. They have good ideas all the time and they have lots of them at work.</p>
<p>When we talk about a creative team, we mean one where people share their good ideas. That's your challenge. Here's how to have a more creative team with all the same people you have now.</p>
<h3>Make the team a great place to work</h3>
<p>Ideas flow more freely when people are relaxed and enjoying what they do and who they do it with. Here's a quick test: listen for laughter.</p>
<p>If your team is a great place to work, easy laughter will be in the air a lot. If it's not, <a href="https://www.threestarleadership.com/supervision/how-the-great-supervisors-do-it">you've got some work to do.</a></p>
<h3>Praise the behavior you want not the outcome you hope for</h3>
<p>When people bring you an idea, thank them and praise them. Don't worry about how good the idea is or what it's worth.</p>
<p>Like magic, ideas will start to flow. But praise isn't enough, you have to do something with the ideas you get.</p>
<h3>Develop a process for handling ideas</h3>
<p>Most places that get a steady flow of ideas have a process for dealing with them. Here are suggestions based on what works for others.</p>
<p>Try all the ideas you can as soon as possible. A quick real life trial sends the message that ideas are important and sets you on the path to developing and adopting the idea.</p>
<p>Require peer buy-in before testing more elaborate ideas. If your team member can convince other team members that his or her idea is worth a try, it probably is.</p>
<h3>Immediate payoff</h3>
<p>Most of the ideas that your team members will come up with will be about ways to improve the way they work. Expect a payoff in productivity in addition to a boost in morale.</p>
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To hear many business leaders tell it, creativity is in short supply. They want their people to be more creative. But their people are already creative. They have good ideas all the time and they have lots of them at work. When we talk about a creative team, we mean one where people share their good ideas.

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