Three Principles in Building a Creative Digital Workplace

Digital is the age of people, and it is also opening the new chapter of innovation. Digital workplaces are about building an environment with the abundance of information and the culture of innovation, to put people at the center of business, and to both engage employees and delight customers. How can digital leaders set principles to encourage creativity and building a creative digital workplace?


Encourage curiosity and build digital mindset: Creativity is an innate ability to create novel ideas. Creativity in the workplace is fundamentally about the mental production of new ideas, not just any new ideas, but the creation of ideas that are both original and valuable. Everyone has the ability to create, but creativity is an inherent ability that cannot be taught, only developed. As businesses get more cut-throat in the hyper-connected working environment, this puts stress on the labor force that is not conducive to more creative and experimental thinking. But if you wanna to make a "creative culture," and build long term business competency, you have to build a creative workplace which evokes the endless curiosity of its people and encourages the growth mindset for catalyzing changes. More specifically, a creative digital workplace will: - Provide intellectual challenge and help people make progress. -A place to strengthen their strength and expand their knowledge -A Change to apply their ideas and recognition for their ideas.-A place people enjoy learning and doing, sharing insight and bring wisdom.
Encourage people to question the status quo and think independently and xreate an environment that encourages dissent and candor : Innovation is about seeing things from different angles, or solving problems in different ways. It’s about breaking down silos, and breaking through conventional wisdom. Innovation is all about how to disrupt the old thinking and old way to do the things. Innovation journey is like taking a hiking trip at the trail very few or even no people ever went before, it takes courage and emotional maturity. Innovators are disruptive to the status quo, and often they are visionary as well, it means the seemly “misfit” nature of innovators are invaluable to push the business or the world for advancement. Also working with innovative individuals who have a strong sense of self has many benefits as well, because often they are authentic with independent thinking skills with clear thought processes, no hidden agenda, say what they mean and mean what they say, to keep things simple, as simplicity is one of the innovation principles.
Help people feel more comfortable with chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity and develop creative capacity: Due to the “VUCA” characteristics of digital new normal, digital workplace today needs to be more dynamic and informative.  The more innovative the employees is, the less tolerant of structure (policies, rules and paradigms) and less respectful of consensus one is. The workplace needs to be designed to help employees at all levels within an organization (from top leaders to front-line employees) understand and develop their creative capacity to solve problems and exploit opportunities in new and innovative ways. The emergent digital technologies and tools help to break of silo paradigms and loosening overly restricted structure, utilizes cutting-edge narrow band psychometrics to diagnose, assess and train the core factors of creativity such as, cognitive processes, personality, motivation, and confidence, and build an open, hyperconnected and highly collaborative working environment for growing innovation seeds, and harnessing innovation effectiveness.
Digital workplace is fluid, live, creative and productive. Organizations need to invest in the cultivation of capacity for innovation. Mutual trust, innovation leadership, and emotional maturity are all critical in building a highly effective innovation workforce and workplace  and achieve an exceptional result.


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