Happy World Creativity and Innovation Day! If I had my way, this may be a global holiday, 😁 but jokes aside I am so incredibly glad to celebrate #WCID this year. As an Innovation Lead, my mission every day is to inspire my team and my organization to reach our most innovative potential. Not only in product development or process improvement but in the way we think of Innovation and Creativity. And contrary to popular opinion, we can all be creative. Creativity is not intended for a select few, or for the “cool kids”, we can all be creative.
To be creative is to do new things after all, to understand a problem and present an unexplored perspective, to challenge your assumptions and think of unusual ways out. Surely, we can all do that, and it becomes even more imperative in these present times. If you do not believe you are a creative person, well it may be time to believe it, because you can be, you have it in you and it won’t manifest when you need to save the world but first in your day-day, in how you solve conflicts, in how you pick your outfits, in how you communicate your feelings and in how you tell your stories. We can all be creative, you may not be artistic, but you can do old things in a new way and that’s what creativity and innovation is about after all.
Happy #InnovationDay! Do something in a new way today and you are already a “creative”!
Cheers.
