Role of a Leader to build creativity among team Members

 Dr.Priya Kalyanasundaram

In today’s competitive environment leaders have to play a major role to motivate his team to be creative and think out of the box for ensuring the team to be effective and to solve the problems in an effective manner.

The following are the tips

• Supporting and building an innovative culture

Creativity is not a distinctive ability like other human skills the capability to be creative is only reliable if practiced often. Leaders need to play a close attention to the deadlines and the best way for breaking the cycle ids to allowing spaces within the organisational work structure. The organisation may conduct Friday or fun day projects where they can take teams to be away from their computers. The leaders can create a culture of innovation and creativity.

• Building a Knowledge sharing process

The best way to help each team member of the team is setting up opportunities for working together. Leaders get greatly benefitted from cross learning. This kind of knowledge transfer is beneficial for teams that are prone to working in isolation. Leaders can schedule a regular informal chats by going around to the team’s desk. A leader might not choose to offer a direct solution but can rather pair with another team member. Leaders can encourage team members. Creativity can also be nurtured by the leaders by setting up a time to share what they have learned with the team. So next time instead of starting from scratch there already exist a record of how the problem was tackled previously.

• Encouraging new tools and skills

Leaders have to ensure that their teams are exploring new tools and techniques that can help to manage their day to day work to perform well. Creativity is also dependent on how fluent one is with the latest technology as team tackles with new challenges the team has to educate themselves on which tools and skills can help them to achieve success.

• Promoting Change

Change is the part of organisational Development any leader who isn’t able to make the team comfortable won’t be able to do better .The more the creativity promoted the more likely we can unlock creativity within team members.   Leaders developing an attitude will help team members more comfortable in finding out a creative solution for their work problems.