How can leaders encourage creativity and innovation in others? transcript

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Blue screen appears with text: How can leaders encourage creativity and innovation in others?

Text appears at bottom left of screen: Nita Wi Repa (Ngāti Porou, Taranaki) Freelance Consultant Policy, Research and Evaluation

Nita: That’s a really great question for me because I work in a work programme around encouraging more Maori into science, tech, engineering, maths fields. So my whole job was all around trying to inspire rangatahi and also to ensure that staff are creative and innovative in their approaches.

So I do a few things. One of the big things is design thinking and implementing that type of paradigm
into the workplace. But also using “better by design” techniques, so using items like Playdough, crayons that are not through sitting at a computer and trying to type up some stuff. It’s actually using your hands, and using making and disruption to actually come up with better solutions.