Foster a culture of innovation within your company or organisation.

1. The Leader’s Guide to Fostering a Culture of Innovation © ideachampions, 2011

2. Communicate a clear, compelling vision for the future

3. Increase the sense of urgency

4. Eliminate the fear of failure

5. Match people with projects they really care about.

6. Help people go beyond limiting assumptions.

7. Invite more “unusual suspects” Into the game.

8. Invite people to look for hidden insights within each “failure”.

9. Help people see the invisible… (Do you see the arrow?)

10. Listen deeply and give timely feedback

11. Remove bureaucratic obstacles

12. Share best innovation practices

13. Create dependable ways to identify new challenges, problems, and opportunities.

14. Make it fun!

15. Reward Teams (not just individuals)

16. acknowledgesmallsuccesses

17. Let things morph!

18. Make sure everyone knows what the decision making process is

19. Find simple ways to capture new ideas

20. Let people play with possibilties

21. Define thecriteriathat will be used to evaluate and fund new ideas.

22. Encourage a mindset of curiosity and openness to the unexpected… “HAPPY ACCIDENTS!”

23. Provide more time for incubation and reflection

24. Allow more ambiguity. (Data is not always king. Sometimes he’s a tyrant).

25. Find new ways to jump start creative thinking

26. Help people frame the best questions to brainstorm

27. express genuine appreciation

28. Protect people from naysayers and idea killers

29. Track new trends

30. Rally people around ideas they really care about

31. ASKpowerful questions You don’t need to have all the answers. .

32. Foster teamwork and collaboration

33. Encourage cross fertilization of ideas. Bust the silos!

34. Invite people to do more blue sky thinking

35. Let people follow their fascination

36. Get your team out of the office

37. Establish an environment of passionate focus and discipline borne of commitment, not fear.t

38. Encourage more experiments and pilot programs.

39. Create simple ways to measureprogress.

40. Simplify and humanize your innovation process

41. Ready? Willing? Able?

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