When you think of creativity, you might think of job titles like graphic designer or marketer. Nevertheless, creativity and innovation are crucial in all companies, as organizational challenges demand creative solutions.
Creativity has multiple functions. It not only fights stagnation, but also promotes growth and innovation. While the skills are essential in business, it is an abstract process that works best when combined with a tangible structure. This is where Hienobiz steps in.
We were recently approached looking for ways to encourage communication and collaboration between teams after working from home for the past few years.
Bearing in mind that our creative team has put together a Draw your Colleague with a referenced Creative Training workshop, with an interactive session that enables their team to broaden their horizons, increase their cognitive skills and establish lasting relationships to make a meaningful and productive contribution to their work environment .
What are the benefits of Creative Training for individuals?
Mental well-being It is a well-known fact that the left hemisphere is responsible for motor functions, while the right hemisphere focuses on melody. When the two hemispheres communicate with each other through creative training, your cognitive function improves, which improves the well-being of individuals.
Helps Build Confidence Repetitive creative movements such as drawing or painting are perceived to activate flow and are tasks that create a result. When you succeed in creating a result, your brain is flooded with dopamine, which helps build self-confidence and internal motivation. Whether you are aware of your increased happiness or not, the hit you get after being in flow will energize you and influence you toward similar behaviors personally and professionally.
Self-Expression The workshop we curated provides a safe platform for individuals on a team to express themselves with a free-flowing Creativity tool. With no prior painting experience required, this judgment-free environment coupled with Art of Creative is perceived to challenge conventional thought patterns to encourage a wide range of both personal and social expression.
Ability to explore multiple perspectives While encouraging the team to express themselves, each participant was asked to explore different visual perspectives of their colleague with an open mind. This approach improves nonlinear thinking in individuals in combating workplace uncertainty.
What are the benefits of Creative Training for teams and organizations?
One of the main barriers to a company’s growth is cognitive fixity or the idea that there is only one way to interpret or approach a situation or challenge. Cognitive fixity is an easy trap to fall into because it can be tempting to approach every situation the same way you did in the past. Therefore, our inclusion of the Cubist style in creative training for the team had to let go of their cognitive of the past few years and explore their individual strengths and weaknesses while broadening their horizons to achieve tangible growth.
Increases Productivity The other important factor in nurturing a creative workplace is giving all employees a way to express their ideas. In this timed workshop, the team was divided into groups and given the opportunity to express their true and honest understanding of their peers through art. When these results surfaced after the activity with the whole group, the team felt seen, understood and valued all at the same time, which reportedly spread a new, inhibition-free mindset throughout the company, which also resulted in increased productivity. These art classes are for teams of all shapes and sizes with both in-person and virtual team building workshops.
Promotes Collaboration Pandemic changed the way teams work overnight. The biggest concern was the collaboration between teams after the lockdown. It provides a great environment where individuals can bring forward and challenge established patterns of thinking that will help employees understand fellow teammates and build a sense of belonging, which in turn promotes collaboration.