What happens when we stop using our imagination at work?
After recently stepping onto the TEDx stage, strategic leadership and team-building facilitator Shannon Russell is reflecting on the idea at the center of her talk: The Imagination Recession.
As adults, we become focused on productivity, efficiency, deadlines, and getting more done. Somewhere along the way, many of us stop making time to play, experiment, create, and imagine what else might be possible.
But organizations still expect employees to innovate, solve problems, adapt to change, and develop new ideas.
So how can leaders expect creativity without creating space for it?
In this episode of Build Better Teams, Shannon shares lessons from her TEDx experience and explores why imagination at work is essential for leadership, workplace innovation, team collaboration, and the future of work.
Drawing from her experience facilitating LEGO® Serious Play® workshops, leadership retreats, and strategic planning sessions, Shannon explains how hands-on play can help teams move beyond traditional brainstorming, unlock new ideas, and get every person in the room participating.
You'll discover why imagination isn't something adults lose. It's something we stop using, and something leaders can intentionally bring back into the workplace.
If you're a leader, executive, HR professional, or manager looking for new ways to encourage creativity, innovation, employee engagement, communication, and collaboration, this episode will challenge you to rethink the relationship between work and play.
Because before we can build better teams and better organizations, we have to be able to imagine them first.
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Watch Shannon's TEDx Talk on The Imagination Recession
