In a good many ways, Triple H runs NXT with an old school mentality, but it's tempered with a realistic POV & knowledge that some of what's "old school" has to be updated a bit.
These two items are both good examples of that mentality. It's one of the many things that Triple H has gotten huge praise for among the wrestlers in NXT, wrestlers on the main roster, wrestlers from other companies, the NXT creative team and officials in WWE. I don't believe that Triple H is a fan of scripted promos, I'm fairly sure that his promos aren't scripted, and will do away with them whenever he ultimately takes over from Vince. Triple H's management style is much different from Vince's in a lot of ways, at least it comes across that way in everything I've read concerning the backstage stuff in NXT. He's not as obsessive as Vince is, he doesn't feel the need to micromanage every single little detail the way Vince does. There are numerous reports in which Vince has said to drive creative nuts by obsessing over every tiny thing or by going back & forth on decisions, especially during WrestleMania season. Triple H trusts the guys in NXT to do what they're hired to do, which isn't to say that he doesn't throw out ideas himself or agrees with them on everything. Allowing talents to ultimately do their own thing on promos is another way that Trips is much different. Again, Vince feels the need to control everything right down to the last detail, partially because, I believe, to a lack of trust. Vince has become pretty damn cautious in the wake of the Benoit tragedy, which I can understand. When the United States Congress considers launching a full investigation into your company and ultimately regulating it, thereby taking the real power out of your hands, it's probably the realization of a true nightmare for Vince. He also doesn't want to run the risk of something pissing off sponsors and cutting into that big revenue that WWE gets from them. Triple H trusts that the wrestlers aren't gonna go off the reservation and he wants them to express themselves in their own way and words, with the bullet points being only subjects that they talk about in their promos. That's not to say that Triple H cares any less for the image of WWE than Vince does, but he's not constantly harping on it like Vince does.
As far as the talent being asked to come up with character ideas, I didn't know about that one. Again, it's something that suggests an old school mentality on Triple H's part. At the same time, it's also putting pressure on the wrestlers that they don't necessarily have on the main roster and I mean that in a good way. It gives Triple H & the other honchos in NXT ideas on who could be genuinely creative aside from their promo work. As a result, listening to the ideas could, in turn, give creative ideas or directions for ideas that maybe they hadn't considered for some wrestlers. Again, it's an example of Triple H not feeling the need to obsessively control every aspect of what's going on. On the main roster, you can sometimes run afoul of Vince if a talent presents ideas that Vince doesn't like or voices dislike ideas that Vince likes or comes up with. It can sometimes depend on what day of the week it is. One day, Vince might be on top of the world and very friendly while, on the next day, he could be huffing & puffing about like an elephant with rabies and a nail stuck in its foot. In everything I've read, there's a sense conveyed that Triple H is someone who's much easier to approach and talk to, someone that doesn't blow a gasket if something doesn't go exactly according to plan, doesn't chew talent or commentators out like a rabid wolf if they make a few mistakes. For the most part, Trips comes off as someone who encourages talent to come forth with different ideas & plans. After all, they might come up with something that's better than what the creative team has planned.
