Creativity Room Objectives - Part 2

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

(In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful)

(Creativity Room Objectives -2)

I started from last post to write about the objectives of Creativity Room. I want to remind all that our first objective for the room which I wrote about in my last post was (Creative Thinking).

In this post, I will mention the second main objective which we are concentrating on in the creativity room which is (Successful Team Work).

Why we chose this objective? We believe that Successful Team Work is one of main keys for Success in life and work whether in small or big projects. Individuals can think, suggest and perform some task, but surely they wouldn’t perform and achieve like a success team.

Also, UAE & Dubai government beside our organization (DEWA) are concentrating on team work, so we saw that this objective is important to be set for our room.

It is not only about team work, but it is successful team work. We thought about the ways of delivering this objective to staff. First, we agreed to set the elements of a successful team work. We knew that there are many, but we chose the following: Leadership, communication, Role Distribution, Planning & Time Management.

When we conduct any activity concentrating on team work, we ensure that these elements are delivered to staff. Personally, when I run an activity and notice that one element is missing, usually the team doesn’t succeed or achieve the target.

After each activity, we always inform teams while discussing with them the benefits of the activity that theory part is important, but implementing these theories is more important.

I saw many times teams starting without assigning a leader and, after several failures, they realize that leader is important. The same applies to other elements also like communication or time management.

On the other hand, there are great teams which start with assigning a leader and have good planning and usually their results will be better unless they didn’t apply their plan or missed any of the important elements.

One of the things which I benefited also is that communication between team is very important. When each person listens to the other, he or she will be closer to success; otherwise, as we say always to teams, “ We are in fish market not creativity room!!!”

In the next post – Insha’Allah – I will mention examples of activities which support this objective.

Until that time, see you Insha’Allah J