بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
(In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful)
Challenges
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As I indicated from my first posts in this blog that I will share my
experience from this room in all stages in order to benefit anyone who wants to
establish a similar room in his/her place. One of the main topics to share
experience on is challenges while establishing creativity room.
Challenges are something normal while implementing any new idea or
project. We, as creativity room team faced many challenges before and during implementation
of creativity room.
To be honest, I suggested in our division suggestion system to apply the
idea of creativity room, but it was rejected
with the comment: not feasible – as I remember -.
The matter didn’t stop here. Our department head had the same idea in
her mind since we attended together a conference about creativity and the
concept of creativity room was mentioned there. The department head took the
opinion of her subordinates and she was very happy to know that I suggested the
same in the suggestion system – before it was rejected -, so she assigned me as
a team leader to manage and apply this idea with a team of five members from
different department.
We faced different challenges before starting this project, but the main
two were: no budget was available for this project and no location was
specified for us. We started to think how to overcome these challenges. The
main important thing that we all focused on that this room should be
established despite of the challenges we were facing.
We started with the second challenge which was the location of the room.
We started to look for different options and study the advantages and disadvantages
of them. We proposed three locations for approval and we got approval on the
largest room – thanks Allah for that -.
Suitable location is an important factor for success and very significant
for such rooms since it will provide space for more activities. Our selected
room was large enough to have many activities. Really we took an opportunity to
get this location since it was planned to be future offices for employees, but
our department head supported us to take it to establish creativity room.
One important lesson that I personally learnt that management support is
one of the key elements for success of any project, and that is what we got
from our management.
I will continue with more challenges in the next post. Until that time,
see you Insha’Allah :)
