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Do You Generate Employee Creativity and Innovation?
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Posted by: Ben Simonton
Posted on: Thursday, 18th January 2007, 3:10 PM.
Or do you cause your employees to refuse to use their natural creativity and innovation?This is a simple test of 10 questions. Rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 for each question, 10 being the best or almost always, 1 being the worst or almost never. Add up your points. If you get close to 100 I would expect that your employees will be over 3 times more creative, innovative and productive than if your score was 30 or less.DOES THE MANAGER-provide regular and frequent opportunities for employees to voice complaints, suggestions and questions, provide reasonable and timely responses, and give employees what they say they need to do a better job?-elicit answers/responses from the team and get them to use their brainpower to solve problems?-listen to employees with 100% attention without distraction, without trying to figure out a response and with the use of follow-up questions to obtain missing details and suggested fixes?-refrain from giving orders since by their nature they demeaning and disrespectful and destroy innovation and commitment?-treat members better in terms of humility, respect, timely and high quality responses, forthrightness, trust, admission of error, etc than they are expected to treat customers and each other?-publicly recognize employees for their contributions and high performance and never take credit him/herself?-openly provide all company info to employees to the extent they need/desire?-use values and high standards of them in order to explain why certain actions are better than others?-use smiles and good humor with subordinates, not frowns or a blank face?-generate in employees a sense of ownership? How?Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"
http://www.bensimonton.com
Message Thread:  | | Thanks, Mike by Ben Simonton on Wednesday, 24th January 2007 |
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