That experience taught the company about the need to keep honing creative skills among all rungs of employees.
Thus, the creativity workshop became part of our staple curriculum.
People are innately creative, but as adults we tend to complicate things.
It seems to me that managers are apt to show distaste for creative types.
────────────────────────────── hone, [動] 磨く ────────────────────────────── If you hone something, for example a skill, technique, idea, or product, you carefully develop it over a long period of time so that it is exactly right for your purpose.
ex) His body is honed and kept in trim with constant exercise.
────────────────────────────── rung of, …の段階 [レベル] ────────────────────────────── If you reach a particular rung in your career, in an organization, or in a process, you reach that level in it.
ex) I first worked with him in 1971 when we were both on the lowest rung of our careers.
────────────────────────────── staple, [形] 主要 [重要] な ────────────────────────────── A staple food, product, or activity is one that is basic and important in people's everyday lives.
A staple is something that forms an important part of something else.
ex) Fish is a staple in the diet of many Africans.
stapleは「ホッチキスの針、かすがい」という意味もあります。
────────────────────────────── innately, 生来、本来 ────────────────────────────── An innate quality or ability is one which a person is born with.
ex) I believe everyone is innately psychic.
────────────────────────────── be apt to do, …する傾向にある ────────────────────────────── If someone is apt to do something, they often do it and so it is likely that they will do it again.
ex) This type of weather is apt to be more common in winter.
「人や物持つ本質的な好ましくない性向、傾向」に使うようです。
────────────────────────────── その他にも、次も押さえておきたい。[誌面の都合上省略] ★は重要表現 ────────────────────────────── showboater, [米口] 目立ちたがり屋 bad pun, だじゃれ accepted wisdom, 一般常識 standard mold, 標準的な型 oddballs or not, 変わり者であろうとなかろうと
"NHKラジオ 実践ビジネス英語 Fostering Creativity (2) 6/5 2008"
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