Some of the greatest innovations of our time are the result of someone being curious enough to keep asking questions and to go beyond their current knowledge or area of expertise to address a problem.
Do you encourage your team to seek new and fresh perspectives and ideas?
Are you a real model for your team and probe for further information and ask open questions?
Are you looking to learn and share new ideas or models or great articles or strategies?
I believe that you nurture greater curiosity by encouraging the following activities.
2. Be Curious – Ask great questions
3. Desire to improve – (What can we learn from other companies within and outside our industry?)
4. Introduce new talent and contacts into your business and bring in creative thinkers.
5. Train your team on techniques to foster a new way of thinking and different methods of problem solving, encourage them to be curious too!
6. Search out and encourage new initiatives and people and teams who are going out of their comfort zone and share good new stories.
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Collaboration is a crucial area to embrace for your business to build a successful innovative company.
It is important within your business and the best results I’ve seen are when I have had the same approach with customers, suppliers and other key business partners.
You need to create an environment where people are comfortable collaborating, sharing their ideas and knowledge. For this to succeed all members of your company should seek open and honest feedback and listen and act on it.
The following techniques and approaches will help you to get collaboration going:
We’d love to hear your ideas or discussion on what you have in place within your organisations to help collaboration and innovation happen.
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Speaking of collaboration, we would like to invite you to join a (Private – invite only) Group. You will get free access to the group with regular posts and content that can be shared by members and you can receive feedback on your own posts and ideas, in a safe and nurturing environment. Great market research!
Click this link to join: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12465980/
We also have a Facebook Group as we found innovators were evenly split between LinkedIn and Facebook, partly driven by how they market to their client base. You would be very welcome to join that Group also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/322860915771948/
I’ve been trying to share the link between mindset and innovation as it’s very important. According to research by Deloitte, 84% of leaders see innovation at the core of their growth strategy, however, understanding innovation and unlocking it tends not to be a strength.
I want to share another key mindset characteristic – Humble Leadership. Research from Harvard University found that humble leadership leads to greater innovation, employees feel more included and it creates more positive team behaviours.
It shows that we can all benefit from the input and expertise of others at all levels in an organisation. People can challenge assumptions, work together on challenges and shape new ways of thinking.
I highly recommend that you read Matthew Syed’s great book called Growth Mindset. He identifies four main ways to develop and demonstrate humility that I believe we can measure ourselves against.
Ask yourself these four questions and if you are brave; ask your team if you ‘actually’ demonstrate these behaviours!
I firmly believe humility makes you a stronger and more effective leader with a great team behind you that you can trust and rely upon. Would you agree?
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Speaking of collaboration, we would like to invite you to join a (Private – invite only) Group. You will get free access to the group with regular posts and content that can be shared by members and you can receive feedback on your own posts and ideas, in a safe and nurturing environment. Great market research!
Click this link to join: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12465980/
We also have a Facebook Group as we found innovators were evenly split between LinkedIn and Facebook, partly driven by how they market to their client base. You would be very welcome to join that Group also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/322860915771948/
How open are you to negative feedback or failure?
Do you see negative feedback as an excuse to give up or do embrace it as an opportunity to learn and improve?
I think it’s important to have a positive attitude towards all kinds of feedback and failure as this encourages the team to keep learning and striving to improve.
My tips for driving this are:
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Speaking of feedback, we would like to invite you to join a (Private – invite only) Group. You will get free access to the group with regular posts and content that can be shared by members and you can receive group participation and engagement on your own posts and ideas, in a safe and nurturing environment. Great market research!
Click this link to join: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12465980/
We also have a Facebook Group as we found innovators were evenly split between LinkedIn and Facebook, partly driven by how they market to their client base. You would be very welcome to join that Group also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/322860915771948/
All too often problems are addressed by the same management team, and although the team may be close knit, they are not always the best members of the business to generate new and innovative ideas.
Here are 5 tips to address these challenges:
1. Create project teams with a diverse mix across experience and areas of your business.
2. Very important – Always include people from different job functions
3. Encourage team to seek expert advise from outside of your business or from customers or suppliers.
4. Ensure teams have a balance of youth and experience to generate differences in perspective.
5. Ensure that project leaders encourage debate and alternative viewpoints.
Follow these 5 pointers and you will be well on your way to generating new and innovate ideas to grow your existing products or services or new business venture!
Business Navigation Services specialise in facilitating and supporting you with workshops, keynotes and project management. Book a FREE 30 minute consultation call with us to help you identify the next steps for your business.
Speaking of feedback, we would like to invite you to join a (Private – invite only) Group. You will get free access to the group with regular posts and content that can be shared by members and you can receive group participation and engagement on your own posts and ideas, in a safe and nurturing environment. Great market research!
Click this link to join Thames Valley Business Innovation Group on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12465980/
We also have a Facebook Group as we found innovators were evenly split between LinkedIn and Facebook, partly driven by how they market to their client base. You would be very welcome to join that Group also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/322860915771948/
Another important area is how to encourage ‘healthy conflict or debate’ within your organisation. Most of the best ideas come when positive views or opinions are expressed.
The challenge is creating and nurturing an environment where your people can express themselves and speak up without fear of recrimination in a safe and positive environment.
My tips on how to create a ‘healthy conflict and debate’ speaking up culture are:
Remember to make sure your leadership team role model this behaviour at all times!
Business Navigation Services specialise in facilitating and supporting you with workshops, keynotes and project management. Book a FREE 30 minute consultation call with us to help you identify the next steps for your business.
Speaking of feedback, we would like to invite you to join a (Private – invite only) Group. You will get free access to the group with regular posts and content that can be shared by members and you can receive group participation and engagement on your own posts and ideas, in a safe and nurturing environment. Great market research!
Click this link to join Thames Valley Business Innovation Group on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12465980/
We also have a Facebook Group as we found innovators were evenly split between LinkedIn and Facebook, partly driven by how they market to their client base. You would be very welcome to join that Group also: https://www.facebook.com/groups/322860915771948/
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