Today, more than ever innovation is vital for the future of our organization.
Leaders who believed that just doing the same things faster and cheaper would be sufficient for success, now acknowledge that this approach will not work anymore.
The landscape has changed.
If we keep doing the same things, competitors will overtake us.
New products, services, and methods of working are needed.
What can you do as a leader to replace a culture of comfortable incremental progress, with one of innovative high performance?
A great starting point for this, at every one to one meeting, ask your people these four questions:
- What innovative/improvement ideas do you have that you feel will benefit the organization?
- What are we doing around here that we shouldn’t be doing?
- What are we doing around here that we should be doing better?
- What aren’t we doing around here that we should be doing?
This will create a culture in which you are open to listening to new ideas.
It will create a culture in that you expect staff to develop new/innovative ideas.
It will create the culture that you want staff to challenge the ‘status quo’.
It will create a culture of ‘constructive dissent’.
It will start the process of turning your people into ‘innovation champions’.
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