How Artistic Expression Benefits Work Life

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Every business owner or manager wants to keep up with the latest trends and stay ahead of competitors&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Creative thinking — dreaming up new and unique ways of doing things — is obviously a part of that process&comma;” notes Nicole Fallon of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;businessnewsdaily&period;com&sol;8894-creativity-business-success&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">BusinessNewsDaily<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;landing&period;adobe&period;com&sol;dam&sol;downloads&sol;whitepapers&sol;55563&period;en&period;creative-dividends&period;pdf" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">study by Adobe and Forrester Consulting<&sol;a> found that 82 percent of companies believe there is a strong connection between creativity and business results&period; In fact&comma; companies that actively foster creative thinking oftentimes outperform their competitors in revenue growth&comma; market share and competitive leadership&comma; according to the report&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Boland Jones&comma; the founder and CEO of PGi&comma; encourages creative thinking because it helps employees to see the bigger picture and leverage productive focus on issues with a deeper business impact&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;While the creative process can seem less productive than simply churning out work&comma;” <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;entrepreneur&period;com&sol;article&sol;234997" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Jones says<&sol;a>&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;by ultimately transitioning those efforts to bigger-picture problems&comma; workers’ productivity becomes more meaningful &&num;8212&semi; and the business flourishes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">So how do we get those creative juices flowing&quest; For a number of business leaders&comma; the answer lies in the lens&period; For Allison Melnik&comma; a consultant at PR 20&sol;20&comma; developing photography as a hobby <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;marketingagencyinsider&period;com&sol;blog&sol;nurturing-talent-beyond-the-workplace-five-lessons-learned" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">taught her<&sol;a> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;to always think outside the box to uncover new ideas&period; It has also given me confidence&comma; allowing my creativity to flourish&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Eileen Richardson&comma; CEO of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;angel&period;co&sol;diadanholdings" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">DiaDan Holdings Ltd<&sol;a>&period;&comma; also takes time to nurture her artistic side&period;  The Nova Scotia based <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;diadanholdingsltd&period;blogspot&period;com&sol;2018&sol;09&sol;diadan-holdings-ltd-evergreen-studios&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">businesswoman<&sol;a> says she finds satisfaction in creating art&comma; mentioning also the value that comes from the fact that photographs allow people to see things they might not be able to experience in person&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Radio host Julie Burstein <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;petapixel&period;com&sol;2017&sol;09&sol;14&sol;4-lessons-creativity-photographers&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">offers insights<&sol;a> into how the process might work&colon;  &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Modern life is full of distractions designed to take us away from the reality in front of us&period; Viewing images or reading articles of distant countries allow us to detach from our own reality&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Burstein strongly believes that creativity can come out of a break in the everyday&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our experiences can change us if we take the time and pay attention to the world around us&period; It seems simple&comma; but in fact&comma; it is something we often overlook&period; Creative ideas are around us&comma; but they are only revealed by looking in a different way&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;<em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;em>Photographs are the universal language of our era&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;time&period;com&sol;4839246&sol;photographers-passion&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">says Kathy Ryan<&sol;a>&comma; director of photography at <em>The New York Times<&sol;em> magazine&period; She argues that photographers – whether professional or amateur—can &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;distill the mayhem and beauty that surrounds us&period; They call our attention to the things we miss in our everyday lives and they call our attention to events and people at a great distance from our own patch of the universe&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Such thinking can only help in the workplace&comma; when coworkers are challenged to work alongside people from vastly different backgrounds or sell products to someone halfway around the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">And it can increase focus&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I believe that creativity leads to productivity&comma; provided that the workplace environment is developed and in a way that allows the two to peacefully co-exist&comma;” adds PGi’s Jones&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;