7 Ways to Implement Great Ideas at Work
Great ideas at work are a blast when they succeed. They charge up emotions and boost self esteem for the creator. They excite bosses and co-workers.
Even better, innovative employees who consistently come up with valuable ideas often get promotions, better pay raises and positive evaluations.
A great idea, no matter how exciting at first, achieves greatness only when it comes fully to fruition and meets or exceeds expectations. Some “great” ideas never make it that far for both good reasons and bad.
Influence breeds innovation
Innovative managers are in a strong position to come up with new ideas and also implement them. They often have enough influence and access to the resources necessary to make them happen.
Because they control some resources, they assume some of the risk as well as the reward for making an idea successful.
Staff people have more upside and less downside with a great idea. The launch decision often belongs to someone else. They usually don’t control the resources to make it successful and therefore don’t have as much risk. But if the idea works, they can get an important share of the credit.
Seven tactics will help managers and staff people implement great ideas and increase their…
