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Published at: 01/11/11 21:00:00
Your organisation is full of clever people.
There is no doubt that your organisation is full of very clever people - that’s what gives you your competitive advantage.
The challenge is how do you get the best out of them?
Let’s start with what we mean by clever people. It’s all too easy to look at qualifications, IQ and experience as what defines cleverness. But the really clever people are the ones that ‘add disproportionate value to your organisation’. These are the people who are capable of turning good into great and you will find them at all levels of your organisation performing all kinds of roles.
They are the ones that are capable of creating the breakthrough ideas and innovation that will differentiate you from your competitors. Ironically given how important these people are to you they often feel that they are under utilised.
So here are some insights that will help you get the best out of them:
- They love a challenge - in fact the more difficult the challenge the more motivated they are to find the answer.
- They want to have the opportunity to improve things – they start with a belief that ‘they can do better than that’.
- You can tell them what they need to do but never tell them how to do it.
- They don’t respect hierarchy but do respect contributions that add value to them, irrespective of where they come from.
- They work best when they are put together in high octane teams.
- They often don’t want to be leaders but equally they don’t like being led.
An even bigger challenge you face is how do you quickly identify them and then how do you pull them together into a team to meet your challenge. That’s where Wiki-Labs comes in.
We have created an on-line environment that we call Ideas Lab that has been specifically designed to bring these clever people together wherever they exist in the organisation and focus them on finding solutions to challenges that matter. What’s more we facilitate the whole process for you to ensure everything stays on track.
If you would like to see how it could work for you just gives us a call. It could be a really clever move!
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