👀 Soft-skills for Creativity and Innovation
“If innovation had ingredients, they would be: creativity, the capacity to be curious, and other soft skills to complement technical abilities - innovation is a dish seasoned with a lot of experimentation and fun.”
Curiosity & Imagination:
Curious people have active minds, and the reason is a muscle, so the more you work it, the stronger it becomes. It opens up new worlds and possibilities through imagination. You see things that you wouldn’t typically see and start imagining new ways to solve or do something by being curious.
Agility & Adaptability:
Being agile is the ability and willingness to learn from experience and then apply that learning to perform successfully under new situations. Being flexible and adaptable demonstrates our ability to cope with new and changing responsibilities.
Initiative & Entrepreneurship:
It helps us solve challenges on our own and have the ability to turn ideas into action. It involves creativity, innovation, risk-taking, and planning and managing projects to achieve objectives.
Collaboration and Co-creation:
Take advantage of the multidisciplinary teams, it gives different perspectives to the same challenge or problem you are trying to solve. Through creation you encourage to think different viewpoints and contexts and develop new solutions around a provocative possibility.
“Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.”