As a leader, it is important to create an environment where the team can grow and develop their creativity.  How is this achieved?  Simple steps such as…..

• listen to your team carefully – without prejudging them
• honour their ideas
• credit their ideas without claiming credit for yourself
• continually seek opinions from team members
• help the team turn their ideas into reality
• thank the team for ideas and then thank them again
• show them that you care – have a pastor’s heart
• demonstrate with action as well as words
• accept challenges to your own ideas
• reward people for ideas – even if they are not actioned

none of these ideas will be new to you – implementing them does, however, take time and effort – that time and effort will be well rewarded