Company leaders: seven ways to stimulate employees' enthusiasm for innovation

1. Set an example. An innovative company must start with its founding fathers and senior executives. Even the most creative founders cannot rely solely on their own power to drive innovation. It needs to be led by someone. Tell your employees with your own actions (not just verbal) to make innovation part of your daily life and let employees know that you value innovation very much.

2. Recognize the target. Innovation will not happen out of thin air. Each team member should be clear about the business objectives of the startup company and what should be achieved at each stage of development. This will enable them to understand what is the focus and what areas may benefit from new ideas.

3. Provide rewards. As a startup company, you don't have much cash at hand, but you can still reward your innovation team in other ways. For example, public recognition, bonus, paid holidays, or promotions are good ways to recognize innovative employees. Even if employee innovation does not work in the end, as a business boss, you should let the public know that you are very grateful for the employee's efforts in innovation.

4. Write innovations into employee job descriptions. Put it into the evaluation process, that is, employees can be rewarded for innovation, while other employees need to actively seek innovation. These should apply to every employee of the company from customer service to engineering supervisor. Not every employee can provide constructive comments for the company's business model, but they can reflect on their work and provide valuable opinions for them.

5. Conduct regular hacker day activities. Learn about Google's famous 20% project, that is, the company allows employees to spend one day a week, about 20% of their time outside of work. The company can schedule regular hacker day activities one day or one morning each week, so that employees can explore things they are interested in and create unlimited creativity at their discretion.

6. Carefully consider the ideas proposed by employees. If the ideas proposed by employees are rejected without being taken seriously or seriously considered, or worse, they are ridiculed by employers, their enthusiasm for innovation will not continue. If the employer and employee are friends, they will hurt each other's feelings. You can develop a system that gets employee ideas to ensure that innovative ideas will not disappear into the black hole. Listen carefully to the creativity and respect of every employee, and ensure that other employees adopt such an attitude.

7. Creative execution. Although this is obvious, many innovative projects tend to be verbal and there are no signs of implementation. If you have no motivation for employee creativity, you will find that the company's creative well will soon dry up. Do not miss a good time to execute ideas. Select two or three potential employee ideas, and then assemble the team members to correct them, and finally select at least one for testing.