Mindfulness for leaders: Innovation and collaboration

- [Narrator] Encouraging innovation. Do you have more or less creativity than you did when you were a child? Most children become less creative as they become older and more educated. That's one reason people respond with trepidation when leaders ask them to be more creative. As you supervise people, learn to distinguish between their creativity and their innovation. You can't measure creativity, and much of its quality and vigor depends on the person engaging in the activity. By contrast, people can innovate in line with their regular work. For example, when an employee modifies a relatively static system. To encourage employees to innovate or to be more creative, help them overcome their emotional blocks. Staffers could fear that people might laugh at their suggestions. Or they could be apprehensive that someone might take credit for their ideas. As a leader, you want to find safe ways to allow your…