Complacency is a considerable obstacle to creativity. Staying in your comfort zone by sticking to what you know rather than trying something new blocks creativity. Business leaders may get through this obstacle by enlisting the aid of imaginative team members and giving them room to experiment.
You can stimulate creativity in the workplace using a variety of strategies. One is creative problem-solving, which makes it easier to develop original solutions to challenging issues. An outline of innovative problem-solving and its significance in business is provided below.
HOW DO YOU SOLVE PROBLEMS CREATIVELY?
First, to solve a problem, get a sense of the problem space and complexity by researching the issues involved and their interrelatedness. However, there are times when it is challenging to identify the precise root of an issue. This could happen if it takes more time to identify the issue’s fundamental cause or if there are conflicting viewpoints.
In these circumstances, you can explore diverse creative solutions that could shift how the problem is perceived.
Creative problem-solving necessitates the investigation of open-ended possibilities. It also emphasizes gaining fresh viewpoints and encouraging innovation at work. Benefits of it include:
● Finding innovative solutions to challenging issues: To demonstrate the complexity of a situation, user research must be more rigorous. Creative problem-solving may provide solutions without this information, but other innovation methods depend on it.
● Business executives must adjust to the ongoing evolution of their industry—creative problem-solving benefits from finding answers to unusual difficulties and overcoming unanticipated obstacles.
● Creative problem-solving may provide original ideas and solutions that fuel business success. These concepts may result in new service offerings, product lines, or an improved operational structure.
As I researched various approaches to solving complex issues, I learned of the work of Dr. Anneloes Smitsman (Ph.D., LLM). She is an award-winning pioneer in human development and systems change who has relentlessly delved into new revolutionary ideas and brought radical new scientific truths to light to design the new systems in education, governance, business, and economics that are needed for an increasingly complex world.
Her background as a creative force of systemic transformation in education, economics, governance, and ecology has resulted from a marriage between her scientific originality and her extensive experience in indigenous wisdom and consciousness development. She is well known for her powerful consciousness-shifting practices to catalyze people’s inner development.
Anneloes has developed a unique theory about ‘futures’ as quantum states of information that act as imaginal possibility states, which is quite different from the conventional view that our future is a linear progression of time. By shifting our consciousness to these quantum states, she explains, we can significantly enhance our transformative capacities. In her article on ‘future creative learning,’ she explains this in the following way:
“You can’t access future potentials from consciousness states that are not resonant or compatible with the consciousness of the explored future information. In other words, merely thinking of or worrying about our future does not make us ‘future creative’ and does not catalyze future-directed learning. Many great ideas and initiatives fail to manifest because people do not have the appropriate consciousness for accessing, activating, and engaging their future potentials.”
Her books and educational programs offer profound hope during these tumultuous times by providing a robust new definition of ourselves with tools and practices everyone can work with. Anneloes provides leadership for tipping point times by empowering people to get creative with the challenges of our time. She does so by helping us understand how life is always in the process of transformational change and how you can enhance your creative capacities by working with the transformative powers of life.
She explains that our approach to a problem may form the most significant barrier, not the issue. She describes how by shifting your consciousness to the future human potentials of your evolutionary next step, your consciousness becomes resonant with the quantum states of possibility from which new futures are born. Then the mind opens and expands, and transformative capacities you never knew had become unlocked.
Anneloes brings complex ideas to practical realization and puts this to use for organizations, individuals, networks, movements, and communities. She can work fluidly from vision to action. She has dedicated her life to developing capacities and systems that can make a critical difference in our world’s transformation. This is also evident in her EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization.
She has a proven track record of working from vision to strategy, strategy to tactics, and tactics to operations. As such, she facilitates the necessary practical realization of the future we want by working on co-creating new economic, governance, and educational based on living systems.
She is a true renaissance woman who brings her unique gifts to the kinds of design and implementation that have the power to shift the negative trajectories of our present world. Thus she creates innovations and solutions that introduce a whole new architecture that inspires while it implements the creation of the promise and dream of a thriving planet. Anneloes combines the tools and practical knowledge to accomplish this evolutionary task.
