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As creatives, and often leaders in our fields or teams, the temptation to provide answers to people’s questions is a strong one. After all, it’s what makes us leaders!

 

Most often times, we are expected to have all the answers. We’re required to be able to solve people’s problems using the expertise we’ve picked up along the way. This, however, forces us into a trap.

 

A trap of feeling like we should always know what to say (in fact, some leaders even pride themselves on it). But this doesn’t foster creativity - far from it.

 

 

So much emphasis is placed on having the right answers in the exact moment that we often fail to realise that it's not always the best way to lead people. Giving problems or people (sometimes they’re the same thing ;) what we think they need may be a...