Invite Ideas

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• You need a lot of ideas to foster innovation. Most of them aren't yours - they come from your team.

• To encourage fresh ideas you want to build a culture across your team where you invite ideas. The best way to do this is to keep asking one simple question, "What do you think?"

• The more you ask your team what they think, the more likely they are to suggest ideas. They're also more likely to ask other team members what they think.

Invite Ideas

You need a lot of ideas to foster innovation. Most of them aren't yours - they come from your team. To encourage fresh ideas you want to build a culture across your team where you invite ideas. The best way to do this is to keep asking one simple question, "What do you think?" The more you ask your team what they think, the more likely they are to suggest ideas. They're also more likely to ask other team members what they think. By inviting ideas you're building an inclusive, collaborative, problem-solving culture across your team.