Quiet quitting drains the workforce of creativity

Creativity and Quiet Quitting

I’m going to jump right in with both feet to the big debate on Quiet Quitting.

Why? Because it is an absolute disaster for Creativity.

Creativity needs positivity, inspiration, great leadership, an open mindset and intrinsic motivation to want to engage, look up, out & wider to improve things.

Quiet quitting, where you do your job role no more & no less is, in my mind, a form of self-sabotage, a sign of poor leadership & management or loss of purpose and a long way from living a full & happy life in all aspects of your being. It has undertones of being passive-aggressive to yourself but wrapped up in a justification of regaining work/life balance.

Yes, Work/Life balance is hugely important, but if you need to achieve it through quiet quitting, you need to question, how you got to this situation & why and then do something about it as a priority.

Here are my top tips using creativity on how you can change your mindset around this:

1 – Re-find your motivations, especially your intrinsic motivation, your internal drive for success your sense of purpose. Ask yourself. What do you stand for? How do you want to be perceived? What is your personal brand? And most importantly, actively listen to your answers. This will give you rich material to then…

2 – Find a thing or task that you personally would like to move forward & have a passion for and make it a project. If you are passionate about it, you will be creative to make it happen. This will help your mind focus on a positive activity & not languish in the QQ zone.

3 - As a Leader reading this, know what passions your people have within them & then enable them to incorporate them into their work, so they can flourish and excel.

4 – As a leader, accept people have peaks & troughs but be close enough to know when a trough flat lines. This takes empathy if you don’t have enough to see this coming then work on it.

5 – As a leader, the phenomenon of QQ is not about people not doing a good job – they do, but about the discretionary effort put in so they are happy, fulfilled & taking part to their greatest potential.

As leaders remember very few people are ever criticised for not coming up with creative ideas. A business brimming & overflowing with creative ideas is both healthy and thriving.

The fabulous thing is working on improving creativity levels & embracing innovative ideas through open dialogue, good leadership & embracing change is that they will move people & the organisation out of the QQ zone.

It will get you back towards full participation, fun & a much more positive working environment. Where your creativity is focused on process improvement, this then leads to efficiencies that give back people time & improve productivity.

Processes that are faster, better, simpler & produce more value, should, with good leadership, enable a better work/life balance. Now there is a real WIN/WIN.