Building Blocks for the Innovative Team

Abstract

In this chapter, we offer our thoughts on how you and your team can rise to the creative challenge and get ready to run a creative team session together. We provide you with a series of practical activities and exercises, split into thirteen important Building Blocks that focus on the following five main areas:

• Building your own confidence, skills and abilities to function effectively as the process leader.

• Taking practical steps towards creating a culture of idea generation and building trust and openness.

• Boosting the ability to work and think creatively and finding new ways to tap into the potential of the team.

• Preparing the way for the Crea8.s Model (Chapter 10), used to run a creative team session, putting essentials into place and making sure you are all prepared for lift-off.

• Equipping everyone with the knowledge, confidence and motivation that will make using coaching to drive innovation a sustainable approach.