Thursday, November 8, 2012
Openness Fosters Creativity
Openness helps facilitate creativity, especially during conflict and problem solving. This is a concept that we use with my hockey team all the time. At the beginning of the season, the head coach told our players that he wanted the kids to be vocal and express any concerns or suggestions that they have. This includes when we do drills during practice. In one of our first practices of the season, the coach said he wanted the players to give their input about drills during practice if they thought the drill was not working well. From the point on, the players have continued to contribute in that regard. There have been a few instances in practice this season where the drills the the head coach and I created did not flow or work out the way we hoped. But since our team created an open environment, the players have felt comfortable approaching the coaches, telling us what is wrong, and suggesting what we can do to make the drill work better.
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I’m on a basketball team and the season is just about to get started and openness I feel has made us a better team than we were last year. My coach also wanted us to be more vocal not only with him but with each other on and off the court in regards to basketball. I felt that because of this we were able to become closer and on the court it was good to see how great our chemistry was building. Openness I feel is kind of essential for creativity; it helps build things like chemistry when it comes groups. All of us being able to equally contribute to the team’s development in some way I think helped us grow.
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