Leading Innovation and Change Inspire Your Team             Vadim Kotelnikov    As a Leader, you must envision the future, passionately believe that you can make a difference, and inspire people to achieve more than they may ever have dreamed possible.  >>>   Team Creativity  >>  10 Tips  ●  Product Vision  ●  Passionate Team  Team Leader  ●  Inspirational Leader  ●  Innovation Leader  ●   Leadership Attributes   Tweet   Team Vision Statement   Launch a Crusade Teams innovate best when they have a clear, inspiring and energizing strategic intent and innovate within that strategic intent. Create a challenging strategic intent or a cause and communicate it to your team members if you wish to launch a crusade and inspire entrepreneurial action. The strategic intent must convey a significant stretch for your team. The cause and crusade should become the reason for existence of your team. You and your team should live the cause. Everyone should be involved. Reward the activities that advance the crusade and celebrate all victories, be them big or small.     Inspire, Empower and Energize People Provide an inspiring vision and create strategic excitement. Energizing your team members to pursue a challenging innovation goal that seems impossible to reach. Empower your team members. Make sure they have the information and the best tools they need to do their job and allow them to influence their own performance goals.    → New Product Development: 10 Best Practices   Create an Inspiring Team Culture An inspiring team culture ensures that individual members both demonstrate their best talents and function synergistically as a unit to achieve common goals. People can create amazing things if their work is challenging, thrilling, collaborative, rewarding and fun. Set stretch goals, create opportunities for your people, work in small creative independent groups and reward risk taking. Teach your people how to use advance ideation techniques and play innovation games to enhance entrepreneurial creativity of your team and its individual members.  >>  Examples     How To Prevent Innovation: 10 Humorous Tips          The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind our products. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.  >>> Steve Jobs Apple We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity. Akio Morita Sony    Tweet                               From the same bunch of the keys to Innovation Success 360             Lessons from Winners  >>  Culture of Innovation  ●  Team Culture Cross-pollination of Ideas  ●  Cross-functional Teams >> Examples