17th January 2020
2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm – &frankly
This content was taken from our latest eBook: ‘2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: Employee Ideas from our global Engagement 101 Influencers’. To download the eBook in full. simply click here.
Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm
Sales & Business Development, UK
&frankly
It is no surprise why the best employees’ ideas are those emanating from the creative powerhouses of the likes of Disney or Patagonia. The Post-it notes for example, did not come about because some genius got let out of a bottle in a 3M lab on a grey morning of 1977. Brilliant ideas come about because they are given the systematic right to be born, not because they are the result of a once in a blue moon ‘idea hackathon’ marketed internally by the Chief Marketing Officer. Rather, ‘employee ideas’ (those that make business sense to pursue) originate from a purposively carved out time woven into the fabric of organizational life. Google notoriously carves out 20% of every employee’s time for such purpose.
My top tip is not a quick fix, it is a strategy to stay away from the mediocrity that all too many of us have settled for as we assume – in our simplified Western models of organizational Cultures of Heroes – that brilliance is the domain of the few. Organisational brilliance is the territory of the many! It is the result of a carefully designed set of internal practices. It is a choice turned into organizational capability. Concretely, as an organisation, don’t allow a Culture that suppresses human’s immense creative power to exist but recognise that People are ‘wholly’ and create space for them to flourish as individuals.
As we support our employees in becoming a better version of themselves, as we nurture Purpose, as we practise Mastery and allow Autonomy, beautiful things will happen that will undeniably positively alter the fortunes of most companies.
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This content was taken from our latest eBook: ‘2020: The Year of the Employee Idea: Employee Ideas from our global Engagement 101 Influencers’. To download the eBook in full. simply click here.