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| Cultivating creative change | ||
CULTIVATING CREATIVE CHANGE |
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| Emergence Many change management initiatives that are imposed to a top-down fashion often fail to live up to expectations. People come to their own understanding of what change means to them and how that can make their work more valuable to themselves and their institution. Creativity plays and important role in guiding such a process of understanding. Creativity at work cannot be mandated by fiat from a higher authority. At the same time creative change that emerges does not absolve senior leaders from their responsibility to nurture creativity and champion its virtues. Senior leaders can do a great deal to either help or harm the cause. The beauty about creativity is that we all have it and are capable of developing these skills and gaining the experience to master it. Zooangzi simply provides the professional learning environment and the expert guidance that enables you to grow. Skills and understanding Studies reveal that although most institutions realise the importance of innovation and are prepared to mobilise their managers and staff to be involved, many of them have not yet been able to create a creative culture and devise suitable policies to encourage change and creativity positively within the wider context of their institutions. It is also discovered that there is a surprisingly low level of understanding of the most commonly known processes, techniques and best practices. Contextualised training in applied creativity and creative leadership can close this gap and be a strong enabler for institutional learning and empowered action.
Become empowered What is needed is more self-confidence. pride, self-management and motivation to compete. Not in isolation but in a team where stress and pressure is compensated by better management, sharing knowledge and breaking institutional barriers. Employees in higher education can become high-profile role models by showing how creative problem solving can be used to address the daunting challenges faced by the institution. Change and creativity is a social phenomena supported by collaboration, new constellations of people, processes and knowledge.
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