It’s been a very short amount of time of me being off of work, but my children have quickly adapted to a new routine. We have been visiting one park almost every day (except for the STOP day!) to play tennis, head to the pond to feed the ducks, and then go for a walk around the park until we find the picnic spot. Today, I suggested going to another park, ‘NO, we NEED to play Tennis!’, ‘We NEED to feed the ducks’…
So I still decided to break up the routine and pick another park- I’m a disruptor after all! We didn’t play tennis, but we really enjoyed ourselves and had a great time, running, rolling in the grass and having a kick around with a volleyball! Lucky, I am a morning person so we managed to enjoy the nice weather before it started raining! They loved it, and my eldest also agreed it was a great idea.
Now, one of the things we end up doing at work is sticking to the same routine and not challenging the meetings in the standard diary, the objectives and the way we do things. The morning starts off the same way; head into work, visit the kitchen for a quick coffee, take it back to your desk and start emails at exactly 08:00 AM so we don’t miss our global colleagues in time zones that are almost ending their working day. How do we foster creativity if we around the same routine day in and day out? The culture may be one of challenge encouraged, but if we don’t see the positive change ourselves because we feel like ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’, then we resort to normal routine and potentially not gain the advantage of entrepreneurial thinking. What are your thoughts in your workplace about how you break up the routine for some creativity?
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