Motivate & Energise

Given the right stimuli and support, everybody is capable of producing useful new ideas and contributing to their development. The creative leader works hard to ensure that people enjoy the process, want to be involved and participate to the full.

A creative leader will seek to provide the right kind of motivation to promote team working and idea sharing and discourage knowledge hoarding and plagiarism.

This means harmonisation of objectives and shared goals. They look to create an environment that is fun to work in. Where satisfaction is gained from an enjoyable work environment and achieving the respect of others. To encourage initiative, they minimise any form filling and bureaucracy around processes to the truly necessary.  They make it easy to kick-off initiatives and to share ideas. 

Clearly there need to be controls to ensure resources are being used wisely and that risks are being managed.  However, these should not be brought in so early that they stifle initiatives. The creative leader is willing to take and sanction risks – to make and allow mistakes.  They encourage new ideas and initiative. They set challenges for themselves and their team and encourage a desire to challenge and improve.