Last week I posted an article titled ‘The great idea is the easy bit, part 1. My boss in an ass’. Its’ premise was that if you want to get your good idea accepted as just that, you need to do the hard yards to convince your boss and other stakeholders of your genius. If they don’t get it, you need to accept some responsibility for that.
Part 2 looks from the other perspective. If the business wants to have great ideas generated by the team, no matter how junior, what does it need to do to enable that? Not every good idea will come from people with the skills to address the requirements of all stakeholders, and if that’s the expectation, you may not get the engagement you’d hoped for. So here are three things to consider when trying to enable your team to contribute to the next big, game changing idea. Make it easy. Put together a simple template that contains the information you need to help the interested parties decide. Think about the perspectives of each stakeholder; have room for the figures for the finance lead, the big idea for the GM, the value proposition for the marketing lead etc. It needs to strike the balance between having enough ensure to deliver a reasonable understanding, but not so much that it becomes a barrier to ideas being presented. Think about using an A3 template or a short PowerPoint presentation. Maintain enthusiasm. Not every idea is a great idea, and not every good idea is the right one for here and now. So how do you say ‘pass’ on an idea and keep the originator enthusiastic about submitting another?
Create the environment where the sales lead, the finance manager or the chief engineer want to engage with other members of the team, no matter how junior, to develop their great ideas. Depending on the business, this may be done through specific objectives, or providing a regular forum where the skills of the business can be tapped in to. In summary, turning great ideas in to outcomes that benefit the business is vital if you want to keep ahead of the pack, but doing so is not straight forward. That said, if a business creates the right environment to encourage new ideas to come forward and individuals understand their role in convincing others the idea is great, then the chances of generating that business changing opportunity improve considerably.
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26/11/2021 09:11:21 pm
Thank you so much! I hope to see more updates from you!
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