Challenges - Part 1

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

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

Challenges -1

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 :)