Our book describes creativity as “the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things…” (Sack, 1995, pp. 241-242). I feel I have had many chances in my lifetime to be creative as have many of us.
I can think of one time where we were doing a team meeting for Best Buy and it was boring just as it always was. ME and a few other were chosen to do a presentation of the new Geek Squad roll out best buy as doing in order to give our people some knowledge on where the company was going. So we got out materials and read through and decided it was way to boring to go through slides and just read off of them. So instead we put a skit together and dressed up like geeks and acted out the slides instead of just reading them. This was the first time one of our meetings was actually fun.
JRod,
ReplyDeleteYou give a really good example of how to be creative at work. I’m sure a lot of us have been in those situations where we have had to either give the presentation, or pay attention to them. Those types of events can be boring, and a lot of the time no one remembers the information.
Putting together a skit is a good way for people to understand information. This way of presenting can be fun, and can take a lot of stress off as well. We are used to receiving the information via the same means, but when that is changed it is shocking; we're forced to pay attention.
Good job!
Henry