Creativity is a fragile thing.
As someone who is on creative team, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to best handle the ideation and creation processes. Brainstorming sessions are extremely helpful but, like any meeting, can get messy really quick. Having been on the positive and negative end of both, I’ve noticed three essential traits leaders of creative teams should possess in order to get the most out of their people:
Remote work. There are days I love it. There are days I hate it. In early 2022, the refrain was that “Remote Work is Here to Stay,” but that seems to have changed at the 3/4 mark of 2024. An article in The Business Journals last week declared that:
The other day, I was out for my evening dog walk when I ran into a neighbor. We started discussing something from the past, and I said, “I’m not sure, but it was before the COVID-19 shutdowns, so I know it was before March 2020.”
My kids are in college, so it’s been over a decade since I coached pee wee sports. I coached one year of softball tee-ball and a couple of seasons of youth basketball.