Management

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Tips for Building an Ideas Culture 1. Take leadership and make communication about innovation a priority

Challenge your people to look for improvements in everything they do every day and talk about this at every opportunity.

2. Formalise opportunities to present ideas

Incorporate an ideas-exchange session in your regular team meetings, or create a suggestion box or forum on your intranet, with a means of acknowledging the idea.

3. Reward ideas

Provide positive feedback for all ideas. Even if it is an idea that won’t work, be sure to say thanks to reinforce a culture of innovation and idea sharing.

4. Implement, implement, implement

Failing to implement ideas is the fastest way to kill innovation and your team’s motivation. Co-author of In Search of Excellence, Bob Waterman, states “The companies (that) persist where others give up?accomplish the most difficult part of strategy: implementation?”