Leadership and management excellence skills in building different work teams and professional communication between the team and management at all levels are considered very important for any leader who wants to elevate himself and his team to the top of managerial and leadership creativity, and this is achieved through a set of strategies, such as the creative innovation strategy, which is one of the most important strategies in building effective work teams.
The success of any organization is based on two main pillars, one of which is that the team performs the work assigned to them in the desired manner and the other is that it works in a team spirit, which is one of the most important pillars of the success of the organizations.
Managerial creativity is considered one of the most important pillars of the leader, creativity is one of the most important mental advantages that God Almighty has preferred man over others. This feature has helped humanity to develop by solving problems, finding ways to meet basic needs, and providing prosperous Possibilities; Scientists have identified several levels of creativity, including:
1. Individual creativity:
It depends on the innate characteristics of the human being, such as intelligence of various kinds and different talents.
2. Collective Creativity:
is based on cooperation between different teams.
If we want to talk about the meaning of creativity, we find that it is the unfamiliar production of an individual or a small group of working, characterized by seriousness, and distinguished by appropriate, and executable ideas and employment in specific uses; Scientists have identified a number of creativity motivates that work to create an managerial leap for the team, including:
3. Self-motivations:
It is what drives the leader from within, motivate him to create a creative environment, and leads him to achieve personal goals and find new and innovative values for him and the work team.
4. External motives:
They are the ones that result from the challenges and difficulties facing the leaders of the work teams, and lead them to create a qualitative impact and a fundamental difference on the level of managing these problems in more creative ways; as it was said: "need is the mother of invention", Rather, it is the one that lead the person to creativity.
How does the leadership innovation process happen?
"Over the years, I have discovered that ideas come from a burning desire to find them," says Charlie Chaplin. So how does the leadership innovation process happen?
The process of creativity goes through a set of operations, it is not the result of the moment or chance; these processes are:
1. Exploration:
A stage of work and seriousness that results in experience and practice, enabling the leader to consciously begin the process of creativity.
2. Analysis stage:
Analyzing the problems or outcomes that result from the practice of work teams, searching for their causes, and seeking to solve them in creative ways.
3. Meditation stage:
After the process of analysis and recall of the causes of problems, the leader needs to meditate on the results and solutions he has reached in order to start drawing the way to lead the team towards creative performance.
4. The action stage:
The stage of insight into the results, innovative solution, preparing the team and involving them in the solution, to form a work system characterized by positivity and creativity.
In order to achieve the process of leadership creativity, it is necessary to achieve specific conditions detailed in more than one reference, and talked about by more than one expert in the field of managerial leadership, Among them:
- Awareness: That is, the creative process appears in human consciousness, ideas are translated into action, and the idea is put into practice, creativity and leadership go hand in hand, and awareness is a cumulative process that does not arise out of a vacuum, and does not depend on specific abilities or talents.
- Composition: That is, the creative work must be tangible, continuous, and constant.
This process confirms the theory of (Zaltman and others 1973) in which the process of creativity is determined in two stages and between them there are overlapping stages, namely: the start-up phase, and the application phase; while the intermediate stages include: start-up, awareness, decision, application, and then experience and formation. Entering the stage of maturity and continuity; it is an exercise in the process of creativity to reach something tangible.
This theory focused on the creativity is a collective process away from individual authoritarianism and ego, and it is worth noting that this theory depends on the theory (Hage and Aiken), but other additions enter into it and work to develop it.
Characteristics of Creative Leadership:
Let's take a look at the characteristics of creative leadership away from theories of creativity and talking about the creative person:
1. Confidence:
A leader must have confidence in himself, his abilities and others; as an inevitable result, we find that a leader who has this quality enjoys the confidence of others. Confidence is an essential pillar of the leader.
2. Intelligence:
Intelligence, although it is innate, but can be acquired.
3. Expansion of the culture and knowledge:
It is not enough for a leader to have certain qualifications or experience, but it is important to increase knowledge and create multiple cultures, especially among leaders who work in multiple environments.
4. Imagination and elicitation:
The ability to implement creative ideas and elicit things; He is not satisfied to see the phenomena as they are, but analyzes them and raises questions that lead him to untraditional solutions.
5. Ability to build relationships:
Has wide social relationships, deals with others, and benefits from their opinions.
6. Intrepidity:
The leader must have the ability to boldness, intrepidity and take calculated risk, and lead him and the team to present ideas that have not been presented before; he must not submit to laws that restrict his movement and cripple his creativity.
7. Curiosity:
The creative leader has a passion and curiosity towards searching for everything new, and changing the present status.
8. Leading change:
Leaders who aspire to lead others and make breakthroughs are characterized by being quick to respond to changes, accept change, and deal with it positively through cooperation with others and working in a team.
9. Analyzing:
The ability to analyze problems and suggest approaches and ideas to solve them.
Is creative leadership limited to the individual, the leader, or the institution?
Of course not. The following are the levels of creativity:
1. Creativity at the individual level:
That is, the team members have a part of creativity and leadership, and leaders come out of them, each in his field; in this case, the team at the individual level has a creative ability to develop the work, in the form of indicators, including:
- Solving the Problems
- Creative ideas.
- Vision and clear and guiding message.
2. Creative leadership at the organizational level:
Just as there are individuals and creative leaders, there are creative organizations and institutions, and they are able to create ideas and opportunities to lead the market and the team they belong to in a very different way from what competitors think.
Management experts have stated that organizational creativity means "the outcomes of the interaction between the strategic plan and organizational building on the one hand, and the organizational culture and environment as mediating or influencing factors in the creative process on the other"; it has also been defined as "adopting a new idea or behavior for the organization".
Researchers in the field of organizational leadership also distinguished between two types of creativity at the organizational level, namely:
2.1. Technical Creativity:
It relates to the product and production technology, that is, the basic activities of the organization that produce goods or services.
2.2. Managerial creativity:
relates directly to the organizational structure and Managerial process of the organization, and indirectly to the organization's basic activities.
Promote Creative Leadership:
Finally, creative leadership at the individual and organizational levels can be enhanced by:
- Avoid fear of failure.
- Self-confidence.
- Supporting others.
- Freedom of thought and expression of opinion.
- Constructive competition.
- Continuous development and training.
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