Creativity & innovation
Definition of attribute
- Meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work and develops innovative approaches and ideas
- Acts with imagination, displaying original thinking and creativity
Integration of attribute into practice
Standard
- Encourages innovation and initiative by reducing barriers to performance and responding to, or adopting, beneficial innovations quickly, in order to enable maximum benefit to be derived from them
- Encourages and rewards entrepreneurialism and new initiatives at all levels
- Uses creativity to adapt to changing conditions and circumstances
Enhanced
- Creates and sustains an environment that supports experimentation, values initiative and freedom of action, rewards professional judgement and risk-taking, reinforces curiosity and challenges the status quo by encouraging open-mindedness
- Encourages new ideas from colleagues, fosters a positive attitude to new ways of solving problems and provides greater opportunities for entrepreneurialism
Skills and tools
- Creativity tools and techniques
- Managing risks and opportunities
- Innovation management tools and techniques
- Implementing innovation
- Communication, persuasion and influencing
- Developing an `innovation culture’
- Entrepreneurial skills