Innovation

Why intentional creative time matters

When your team makes time for creativity it has benefits toward innovation, productivity, adaptability to change, individual growth and overall morale. Despite the benefits, sometimes creative time is deprioritized, and the exception instead of the rule. 

When my product teams have made time for creativity, we've definitely seen more failures than successes, but we've learned, continued to make progress, and had some good, clean fun.

Whether it's a hackday/hackathon, innovation lab, or discovery sprint making time for creative exploration, experimentation, and failure is critical to a healthy product team.

Learn more about integrating intentional creativity into your team's practices from creativityatwork.com

Watch the video below for a quick snack about what I learned from my kid's summer break about making time for creativity: 

When failure is not an option

There are countless quotes about failure and innovation:

It's widely socialized that innovation by nature involves failure because when we try something new and fail we learn what not to do the next time we try. Fear-based ways of operating often are the biggest hindrances to innovation because instead of being driven by innovation's tolerance for failure, they are constrained by perfectionism and fear of failure. Innovation can be messy, failure can make you feel out-of-control, but the returns are ten-fold. 

Watch the video below for a quick snack about what I learned about failure from kids doing a ninja course: