WHEN TEAM MEMBERS ARE TOO BUSY TO BE INNOVATIVE.

Last week, I discussed how team members could assist their leaders by taking innovative initiatives. In this article, I’m going to explain, if the situation is reversed, how leaders can help team members develop innovative initiatives, even when busy.

Leaders have the ability to take a bird’s eye view of their team’s activities. It’s important to make sure everything aligns with the intended goals. When team members are extremely busy, it’s difficult to be as innovative as they’d like to be. At times, they can be inundated with greater responsibilities, and feel trapped in minutiae. Without time to see the big picture beyond this, it’s impossible to focus on the most important priorities. Individuals and leaders can feel frustrated, knowing the organization is losing out on their creativity.

Some team members may focus on improving their personal career, and impressing their leader. They try to appear indispensable, reliable, trustworthy and hard-working, but their specific activities may not align with organizational goals.

It’s not always easy for a leader to immediately see exactly where, and why, their team members are focusing.?

If team members and leaders aren’t communicating fully and regularly with each other, many important details may slip from notice. Things such as accurate skills, specific job activities, and even collaborations, may not be in full focus, slowing progress towards desired outcomes.

Without the right system documenting these things, it can be tough for leaders to successfully manage and motivate team members.

A system that facilitates working with team members effectively, in a human-centric, practical, and effective management, is Optevo .? What does that mean? Let’s take a look:

Leaders have a responsibility to plan, strategize and manage the execution of specific tasks to achieve specific outcomes, not to mention increase high-level communication. Working with their team members proactively, they need to ensure shared input and innovation.? Team members need to feel included, as well as psychologically safe to offer innovation, and suggestions.? Trust relationships, need to be fostered, and collaboration between colleagues and leaders encouraged.

There has to a framework, a system, a shared environment for this to happen. There has to be both transparency and accountability. It has to go beyond traditional surface conversations and meetings. It also has to include records of goals, visions, and tasks, as well as details of what has happened during collaborations, discussions, references, data etc.

Optevo facilitates the leader’s interactions between team members, from a human-centric, practical, and effective management style, while aligning all factors in a robust, openly accessible system.?

Being able to access every area of specific task work, details, data and every factor which influences outcomes is hugely important. When it also saves time, provides accountability and helps make work easier, it not only helps leaders be more effective, it includes, empowers and engages each team member.

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