The influence of creativity training in the workplace

Creativity training enhances the divergent thinking and problem-solving ability of employees, which is essential to produce new ideas. Which are the employee and organizational benefits that creativity training brings, and which approaches might efficiently aid its establishment?

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Shipton et al. (2016) highlight that creativity training may considerably contribute to organizational performance if the right approaches are followed in the appropriate context and with the necessary support. We may argue that the impact of creativity training in the workplace brings positive benefits for the employees but also for the organization.

Those benefits can be described as follows:

Employee benefits

Through creativity training the employees discover ways to improve their work and be more efficient and capable of solving problems more easily, since they get trained to perform in innovative ways and adapt in easily changing situations.