Innovation intimidation is a fairly common occurrence. But there are also easy ways to dispel it so that your people can experiment, learn, and innovate without restraint.
Episode Transcript:
What should you do if your team is intimidated by innovation? Well, this is actually a fairly common occurrence. Many assume innovation isn’t for them but for research and development teams or that it means creating the next big tech product to sweep the market. But that’s simply not true. Everyone is an innovator, and everyone innovates in different ways, both big and small.
There are many things you can do to dispel this innovation intimidation.
As a leader, you want to take away the fear of failure. After all, innovation is all about learning and experimentation. Start by creating a culture where no one is afraid of trying because the results of failure are celebrated as an opportunity to learn how not to do it next time. In de-emphasizing failure and overemphasizing the importance of experimentation, you can create a team that is continuously improving and coming up with new ideas.
Building team chemistry will also help—you cannot create a culture of continual improvement without it. Notice where your employees play well together, feed off each other, lead each other to creative solutions, and generate more of those opportunities. The more you practice working together around different problems and solutions, the better the chemistry will be, and the more your people will be willing to experiment, learn, and innovate freely.
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