Posts Tagged ‘innovation’
Three Questions You Must Ask to Improve Workplace Innovation and Creativity!
There are three questions that children routinely ask that you can use to improve workplace innovation and creativity.
Read MoreHow to Stifle Creativity and Innovation
If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking! — General George Patton The quickest way for a manager or leader to stifle innovative and creative thinking is for the leader to discourage the team from disagreeing with each other. The other quick method for stifling breakthrough thinking is for the leader to always insist that…
Read MoreIdea Quota for Innovative and Creative Solutions
How to Involve Your Team in Problem Solving Resolving problems in organizations often requires managers to take off their usual supervision hat (telling their employees what to do) and put on their facilitation hat (asking their employees what to do). As these managers have learned, seeking the input of their employees who do the work…
Read MoreFour Solutions for Creative and Innovative Problem Solving
We are all creative, but by the time we are three or four years old someone has knocked creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve,…
Read MoreEight Ways to Increase Innovation
A report representing companies of all sizes across various industries identifies 8 high quality ideas for increasing innovation.
Read MoreObservation for Innovative and Creative Problem Solving
How to Improve Innovation Let’s face it busy operational managers and senior leaders need solutions! They recognize that today ordinary, quick-fix solutions have limited benefit in an environment where constant change is routine. These managers and leaders want innovative solutions to the problems they face in the workplace. In working with business professionals, I often…
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