Organizational Innovation: Foster Innovation and Reward Innovative Habits

In today’s world of exponential change and technological disruption, encouraging innovation on an organization-wide scale is key to helping your organization leverage Hard Trends and use them to anticipate what’s to come. To help achieve that, there are various ways to adequately nurture and ultimately sustain an innovative culture. These ways are included, but not limited to, financial rewards, time off, and the flexibility to work remotely from a place that’s inspiring, oftentimes easily from home in today’s connected world.

But, no matter if it’s a question of innovation or really any organizational goal a company may have, a salient principle holds true: Reward the behavior you want to spread throughout your company or department.

In working with all sorts of organizations, I’m often surprised how often this relatively simple yet powerful idea is overlooked. But understanding it and applying it on a consistent basis can and will help boost the organizational goals that you wish to achieve, especially innovation, being one of the most fundamental pieces of anticipating change and turning disruption into opportunity.

Changing a Sales Direction

Here’s a scenario of inadvertently overlooking the essential value of rewarding…