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7 Ways to Encourage a Team to Be More Innovative

Ron Edmondson

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. But as leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate our people to be innovative. We can’t mandate our people to be innovative. And the longer people haven’t been innovative, the the more difficult it is to get them innovating again.

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7 Easy Ways to Encourage Innovation on Your Team

Ron Edmondson

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. As leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate innovative people. And, if our people haven’t been innovative in a while, then there may not be much innovation going on in our world. Great innovation comes from the gut.

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Where My Best Ideas Come From | Ron Edmondson

Ron Edmondson

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Culture » Where My Best Ideas Come From Where My Best Ideas Come From January 22, 2011 in Culture , Encouragement , Innovation with 24 Comments Where do you get your best ideas? I love ideas, so I’m always trying to create new ones.

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But Does Collaboration Really Work?

Lead Change Blog

Of course, there were some great books such as those by Morton Hansen, Amy Edmondson, and Ron Ricci. Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation. The charge was to brainstorm ideas. I started my research into collaborative organizational cultures about five years ago.

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Where Many New Ideas Come From

Ron Edmondson

We have to be open to them and we must be brainstorming as we work; looking for key places we can innovate, explore and grow as individuals and organizations. But if you want to learn to innovate, if your organization needs changes, if you need some new ideas – often when you do more you’ll discover more.

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7 Ways a Team Becomes Idle

Ron Edmondson

One way we have addressed this is to periodically schedule times where the only agenda is brainstorming – dreaming – answering the question “what’s next?” Therefore, leaders must become champions of new innovation and continual progress individually and for everyone on the team.

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3 Questions Every Church Leader Needs to Ask NOW

Ron Edmondson

If I were to come alongside of your church, (and I’m certainly happy to do that through my coaching ministry), I would help your staff or leadership think through each of these in a brainstorming session. This crisis has reminded me that innovation can occur in any size church. You can certainly do this on your own.

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