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Creating a Culture of Innovation and Creativity
I am choosing option 1, imagining I am creating a new and innovative company in the travel industry. It would be a destination hotel and the products and services it would offer would be: entertainment, dining, and spa services along with transportation to and from tourist attractions using an in-house app. This new company would require a lot of team work and collaboration in order to make sure guests are treated like kings and queens and that everyone has a fantastic experience. Most of all it would require an innovative leader willing and able to think outside the box and lead others in creative new endeavors.
Ideal Qualities of a Leader for Inspiring a Culture of Creativity
The ideal qualities of a leader who inspires a culture of creativity and innovation include being a trusting and trustworthy person, possessing social and emotional intelligence, and being supportive of people taking risks. If risk taking is not permitted, employees will be reluctant to test out new ideas. That is why it is important that a leader be able to empower followers by showing trust in them and accepting that those followers might fail (Wang et al., 2021). But so long as everyone learns from the failure, it should be viewed as a success. For a leader to inspire a culture of creativity and innovation, he must be positive and promote positive in the workplace, never threatening punitive action against someone whose idea did not work out. Innovation comes by trial and error, so it is up to the leader to be sensitive of what others are going through, to support them as they work out kinks in their designs, and to trust them as much as he wants them to trust him.
Steps to Contribute to a Culture of Creativity
The steps a leader may take to be a contributor to a culture of creativity and innovation include creating a sense of urgency to take risks and try out new ideas, establishing a vision for change, communicating with personnel, and removing obstacles to innovation (Hornstein, 2015). Rather than implemented a rigid system in which results are expected, the leader should be flexible. Another positive step is to turn a group of workers into a team, wherein everyone knows what everyone else is doing and can be supportive and helpful in different ways. People should feel that they are assisting one another than competing with one another. Fear of punishment should be removed from the workplace, and instead the leader should...…group from communicating effectively with people in other groups. It is thus important to remove silos and bring everyone together into one culture, and communication is key to making this happen.
Ways Leadership May Coach and Support Employees
Ways leadership may coach and support employees with overcoming these barriers would be to show that all ideas are welcome and to reward employees for communicating and working with others to get everyone involved, to obtain feedback, and to seek out support. Leaders can coach employees to listen to what others have to say without judgment, to offer advice in supportive and emotionally intelligent ways, and to serve one another for the greater good of the team and of the organization. Leaders can support employees by demonstrating emotional intelligence themselves, giving and accepting feedback, and emphasizing the vision that the organization is wanting to make a reality.
Conclusion
An innovative new company has to be able to bring its new ideas to the market in ways that have not been accomplished before. It takes a lot of talent and hard work to bring new ideas to life. The best way for a leader to do that is to possess authentic leadership, and to promote a culture of acceptance wherein new ideas can be tried without fear of…
References
Gigol, T. (2020). Influence of authentic leadership on unethical pro-organizationalbehavior: the intermediate role of work engagement. Sustainability, 12(3), 1182.
Hornstein, H. A. (2015). The integration of project management and organizationalchange management is now a necessity. International Journal of Project Management, 33(2), 291-298.
Wang, L., Wu, Y., Liu, C., & Wan, Y. (2021). Leaders’ positive and implicitfollowership theory and team creativity in a university scientific research team. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 49(4), 1–14.
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