Tip to Trans4m - Creating an Innovation Environment

Creating an innovation environment is extremely difficult but here are some tips that you might want to consider:

• Create a practical and achievable vision for your organisation;
• Do an audit of the management skills that you are missing and work out a plan for bringing those skills into the organisation either by employing the right people or getting third parties to assist you;
• Make sure that you have a strong experienced leader who is not just a ‘yes’ person but who can make the changes in the organisation that are necessary;
• Review your performance management and incentive systems to support the new culture you are trying to achieve;
• Eradicate any fear that staff may have in speaking up with fresh ideas. No matter how far out of the box an idea is give it appropriate consideration.
• Introduce good internal communication systems and celebrate wins as they occur.
• Remove any obstacles to experimentation. Encourage your staff to have a go at doing things differently.