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A better strategy for encouraging creativity is to build a team with a variety of different skills and strengths, and to encourage healthy debate among them. Create an environment where failure is OK, and different points of view are encouraged. Ban the expression "that's not the way we do it here."

Kathy Bernhard

President and Founder, KFB Leadership Solutions

Asking more questions, and truly listening to the responses rather than just telling people what to do can strongly contribute to creating a coaching culture. A command culture puts a tremendous burden on the leader to always know the answer, and in today's world, that is simply no longer possible. 

Kathy Bernhard

President and Founder, KFB Leadership Solutions

A really smart boss once told me, “You get paid to have a point of view.” That made it much easier for me to share new ideas and also to disagree. Try reframing the problem and remind yourself that smart leaders know good ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. In fact, the best ideas often come from the people closest to the work.

Kathy Bernhard

President and Founder, KFB Leadership Solutions

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