How Do You Inspire Your Team to Share Their Best Ideas? Let's Discuss!

Five Ways To Encourage Your Team to Come Up With Ideas

Hello Professional HR & Business Veterans, please find attached a very inspiring entrepreneurial lesson in ET on five ways to encourage your team to come up with ideas.

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Thank you very much for the post. I have a quick question. Most of the time, team members fear disclosing or expressing their ideas because they worry about potential targeting by their superiors or peers. How can we help them overcome this fear? Should we encourage them to submit their ideas anonymously? If so, how can we reward people for their contributions and ideas?

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To overcome the fear of team members, superiors and peers must ensure that every idea from the team is received positively. If an idea is not liked, it should be conveyed in a very polite manner. While this solution may be impractical sometimes, submitting ideas anonymously could work. However, I suggest that every member of the team, including team members, team leaders, and superiors, should have a positive approach towards every idea and provide trust to each other that they won't be targeted later. This trust should come from within each individual. They must understand that ideas should not be taken personally.

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