Employees Have Ideas

Many employees in a business have great ideas that will benefit sales, growth or customer service but management never hears about those ideas. They may be worried that if the idea is considered worthless they will be looked down upon and it could hurt their chance for promotion. Managers & owners should always encourage their staff to come forward with any ideas they feel are helpful to the company. If the idea is not used the employee should still be thanked for submitting it.

Make a serious effort to get those ideas and suggestions and reward the ones that are used. Also let their peers know they had a great suggestion and make it easy for others to submit them. A regular meeting with your staff can have an item on the agenda that is time for ideas and suggestions. It's important to let the staff know that no ideas is too foolish if they feel it might benefit the company. Encourage input from everyone.

 Barry is a business speaker and international author www.idealetter.com