Questions? Comments? Want to call BS? Email your hosts at TwentyOne20podcast@gmail.com
Why, at times, does it seem hard to get good ideas from your team?
If you’re frustrated that you’re not getting input from your team, you need to look to yourself first.
Have you squashed ideas? Failed to set context? Or, have you unintentionally created a status quo culture?
Ideas & innovation… that’s the topic for this edition fo the 2120 podcast.
- It’s the leader’s responsibility to set the table for ideas… You need the right people with the right talents around the table.
- Set the table by having a dialogue before the meeting to help others prepare for the idea meeting.
- Most leaders fail to create intentional space for ideas to happen.
- Think time is undervalued in most workplaces.
- What can you do to help make meetings where ideas are needed more productive?
- Look for ways that you, as a leader, create a spark where ideas will occur.
- Ideas are thrown around all the time…
- If I believe that people aren’t bringing ideas to me, I have to look at myself first.
- People are frustrated when they’ve given ideas but nothing happens with them.
- You have to show people why — or why not — an idea is worth pursuing.
- Squashing ideas causes people to feel deflated. It leads to them feeling disempowered.
- When someone brings an idea, don’t kill it by asking “How?” They say, “Wow! Tell me more.”
- Asking how automatically creates limits and kills further ideation.
- Even if it’s not the right idea… it may lead to other powerful ideas that lead to a better solution.
- You can’t halt progress. Let others run with the idea.
- It’s valuable to understand each other’s Strengths and gifts.
- The best leaders build teams with people who complement each other.
- It’s not OK with just being OK… status quo is easy to fall into.
- One of the greatest threats to success is success. You can lose the edge.
- If you have a leader that isn’t a driving force to excellence, your team will always be limited.
- When you hire someone with mad potential, but you don’t push them to greatness, they’ll either become complacent or leave to go somewhere else.
