“May this New Year bring many opportunities your way to explore every joy of life. May your resolutions for the days ahead stay firm turning all your dreams into reality and all your efforts into great achievements.” -Unknown
And the winner of the 2016 Business Creativity Award goes to YOU- for Generating, Creating and producing the Best Business Breakthrough Results from Your Great Ideas. This can be your business.
Happy New Year- Now that it’s 2016, you already have your goals set, and your creative thinking is in place. What you are missing is the how and where to get started with actually generating ideas for creating and producing innovations.
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
-Oprah Winfrey
The idea for your business to be creative and innovative is for you not just to stay in business, but to thrive beyond your expectation.
The start of the year is a great time to gear up to start your business anew. Of course, you first need to figure out a winning concept. Most likely you have come up with a lot of great ideas to be successful, you now have to take action on them.
The creativity and innovation of your business shows how you can shine through generating and creating ideas that come from your most valued assets- your employees. Your employees can generate your organization’s best ideas as long as you reward and recognize them and of course make use of what they present. On the other hand, when a problem, challenge or difficult assignment comes into your workplace, allow your employees to generate and create solutions to produce the result that is it needs.
Ask Yourself “What’s Next?”
Surpass your goals in 2016 by using hard goals. Essentially, start with success goals you can achieve. Then gradually make your goals more challenging and harder at the same time. This helps your employees prepare for the next levels they need to achieve for success.
There is a huge opportunity waiting for you. Take advantage of it. Don’t wait for the right time. Become creative and innovative now even with starting on small tasks is better than waiting for long periods of time when you think the time is right. Too many people missed opportunities that were right in front of them and are still waiting for their big break.
Change your perspective of how you look at things by doing other things. This helps you not stay focused on something you may get stuck on. The other things can help you think of how to get unstuck on the work you are doing. Think both inside and outside the box, or create a new box and re-start your project for a fresh start.
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
-Edith Lovejoy Pierce