10 Steps to Successful Teams

STEP SEVEN:

Tap Into Creative Energy of the Team to Develop Innovative Approaches

• Get out of left-brain thinking
• Create a new environment
• Turn creativity into innovation
• Use creativity and innovation daily

If you always think what you always thought, you will always get what you always got.

—Gerald Haman

Innovation is vital to the health of organizations and to the functioning of successful work teams. As noted earlier in this book, teams naturally stick to familiar practices they know to be successful. And, of course, that makes perfect sense. But imagine what might happen if a team sought better ways of working and constantly searched for new efficiencies. Certainly, greater results would follow. So what does innovation mean in a team ...