Você quer tornar sua equipe mais inovadora. Quais são as melhores maneiras de fazer isso?

Foster curiosity by being curious with your team and in spaces where your team can see you model behavior that supports a curious learning style. Lead with empathy and listening skills - ask questions and listen. Share your mistakes and what you learned from them; and let your team know that it is safe to make mistakes - that is how you learn. The key is to iterate, adjust, and grow. Prioritize life-long learning and a growth mindset. When asking questions, don't stop with one answer... get multiple perspectives. Play games from time-to-time. Scenarios, role-playing, what is the customer/partner/end-user thinking, etc... be creative and think out-of-the-box.

In my opinion, autonomy plays the most vital role in bringing innovation on table. From being part of team to now Managing one, I have realized that every problem have multiple solution and to bring the innovative solution on table you need to provide freedom, authority as well as responsibility to team members.

If you want your team to give you the BEST of results. Give them the power do it. As simple as that. If I will restrict my employee with a set of rules and they are not allowed to break it you won't get anything new but if they have the authority to add the hint of your their expertise. You are going to get something that you did not even imagine and will be way more better than what you thought of in the first place.

A team with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives can bring a wider range of ideas and approaches to problem solving. This can be accomplished through various ways, being inclusive to involve members from different functional expertise, hire gig worker or early careers who brings a completely different point of views on certain aspects, varied experiences in completely different industry. It is equally critical to grab or identify the ideas as they are shared, sometimes naive comments could be path breaking and recognising them at initial stages can give any organisation an early mover advantage.

Diversity is extemely important when creating an innovative team. Think about your customers and persective customers and their customers; as well as your goals. How are you going create a plan to achieve them if you don't have a plan as diverse as the landscape you want to reach? Our world is bouquet of wildly different flowers and flavors of humanity. Having a team with different backgrounds, ideas, and perspectives will help create rich strategies and innovate under your consolidated team which will benefit your organization.

Trust is a two way street. You need to have faith and trust on your team to deliver which will lead them to trust in you. Once this is there then inhibitions are gone and teams are ready to experiment and deliver. Then it becomes not about can i do this but about what is stopping me from doing this. Bridging this gap is very important for a successful team.

In my opinion, few aspects of innovative teams which needs intentional attention are a) Providing opportunities for learning and development – Ideas can be generated when someone is aware of the challenges and also about available or potential resources – technology or otherwise to bring in transformative mindsets. Can there be trainings and resources for team to learn about newer tech, industry trends. This will enable to stay upto date and bring fresh ideas to the table. b) Provide resources: Make sure team members have the resources and support they need to experiment and try new things. This along with encouraging culture of experimentation and risk-taking can allow team members to try new ideas and approaches without fear of failure.

An important aspect to promote innovation within teams is by removing the fear of failure ... Some useful ways to remove fear of failure: 1. Share failure stories equally loudly ... As the team shares success stories 2. Leadership behaviour should have genuine appreciation for the effort put in and the help the team draw learnings from the failure 3. Keeping a substantial chunk of innovation team's metrics on leading indicators of innovation ... Eg. No. of insights, no. of experiments, no. if prototypes etc. and there can be more ways ... However removing the fear of failure .. definitely can support the innovation drives within the teams and organization ...

A clear brief and goal. Then reflect on the mantra: 'Be in awe of what you do not know, for it is infinitely bigger than you will ever know'.