How the Best Teams Keep Good Ideas Alive
Many leaders feel stuck. They know that employee perspectives are crucial for retention and innovation, but they struggle to single-handedly create a culture where employees are empowered both to speak up with ideas and to see them through — where it’s the good idea that matters, rather than the role or status of the person who initially raises it. Based on their research on “voice cultivation” — the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team members’ voiced ideas reach implementation — the authors have identified several tactics leaders and their teams can use to help ensure good ideas make it to implementation: amplifying, developing, legitimizing, exemplifying, and issue-raising.