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May 4, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Creating a Better Work Place for Innovative Employees

This blog post is an interesting article written by the innovative people at IncFile.com Incfile.com began with the goal of helping individuals and businesses meet their incorporation needs. Their mission is to deliver the best incorporation value, online or offline, and to provide service that is fast, friendly, and efficient. Let me know how you enjoy the article. Thanks to IncFile for writing this post just for Communicate with Impact Weekly.

When it comes to owning a corporation, it is extremely important to create an environment where employees can be creative and innovative.

Having creative and innovative employees is a huge plus for any business: such workers not only offer great new ideas, but they also become increasingly more invested in the business as they begin to generate ideas in and for the place they work. So whether you are starting up a new corporation, or simply looking for ways to improve your current business, it is always beneficial to create a workplace geared towards innovative employees. Here are some ways that you can do exactly that:

Break down walls

People are far less creative and innovative when they feel as though they are locked behind bars. High walls separating cubicles is a way to positively shun creativity. Instead, remind people that they are in a fun office space – not a prison – and their brains will run with ideas.

You can even go a step further by adding an atrium or a few fountains to create an atmosphere and ambiance that produces creativity in all of your employees.

Open up the space and create common areas

People also become far more creative when they have open spaces where they can interact with fellow creative minds. Apple’s innovative founder and CEO Steve Jobs was famous for designing a company campus where employees had to interact throughout the day, because he felt that it led to great thinking, and the churning of excellent new ideas.

That building utilized features such as a common room and lunch room in the middle of multiple areas, so that employees from different sections of the company would all meet together and start talking. He also placed bathrooms far away from many workers, so that they would have to walk past other employees constantly.

All this new found discussion in the workplace may look like simple water cooler banter, but in reality it’s great ideas and innovations blossoming before your very eyes.

Have a boss accessible

Many creative minds shut off their innovations while at the workplace because they feel that their ideas will not be heard, or that it’s too much trouble to have their ideas heard. This can all be solved by having an easily accessible boss.

If a boss has an office placed right among his or her employees, with an open door, then workers are far more likely to feel creative, because they believe that their ideas are growing in a workplace where they can be heard.

Weekly innovation meetings

Employees are the most innovative when they are encouraged. Weekly innovation meetings can do exactly that.

Consider starting (or ending) the week with a meeting where employees can suggest ideas, or bounce thoughts off of one another; make sure to also use this time to check in on past innovations, to see if employees are following through with their work.
With these ideas, you can create a workplace that is ideal for innovative employees.

About the Author: IncFile provides incorporation services specifically to entrepreneurs and can help create a low business entity to register with your secretary of state and start a new company immediately. You can follow them on google+, twitter or facebook.

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This is Joyce Weiss, Conflict Resolution Consultant
I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results.
How do I do this?
I teach them to tackle the tough conversations with bullies and negative people to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…
The Result? My clients get a better night’s sleep!

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

April 12, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

You Have an OK Team…Now Make it an A Team

You’ve worked hard to create a successful team.

People are getting along and things are going well…but you know that they can become more engaged. You may want to improve accountability with some of your team members. Morale is OK yet you want the environment to be a bit more positive.
This article is a good start for you to turn your team into an A team.

Here are your next steps to develop an even stronger team:

1. Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the team.
It will be easier to assign tasks to team members.

2. Agree on team rules.
Strong teams have written rules which they develop themselves. Start with these helpful rules: Tell a person when you don’t agree, don’t talk about people behind their backs, and never be late for trivial reasons.

3. Find or create a team leader
Great teams don’t just happen. Find someone to take charge – whether it’s the manager or anyone interested in group leadership.

Click here for more ideas on How to Create an A Team

Thoughts from Joyce

My clients know that good is not good enough today due to stiff competition. Our brainstorming sessions are always very exciting when we discuss ways to change how teams communicate. There is always a better way to communicate and conflict is there even if you think it is not present. Think about your own team and what rules it can come up with to reduce conflict in the workplace. I will write about the Code of Honor in the next article which will give you more ideas on how to do this. Feel free to call me at 800.713.1926 to discuss how we could make your team into an A Team.

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Visit her website at www.JoyceWeiss.com to sign up for your own FREE video series on Resolving Conflict in the Workplace.

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Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Conflict Resolution Consultant

I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results.
I teach them to tackle the tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…
The Result? My clients get a better night’s sleep!

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

PS Click here for more ideas on How to Create an A Team

April 5, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

Making Amends to Become Better Friends

Is there someone at work with whom you’d like to improve your relationship? Decide what you want to say to this person. Make sure that you practice before you communicate your concern to the other person. You will get better results when you communicate in a positive and productive way. Watch the communication improve in the workplace immediately!

The power talk formula is a great tool to help you gain control in stressful situations.

I am ____________________ (your emotional response-

When __________________(non judgmental statement)

Because _________________(how it affects you)

For example: “I am frustrated when we discuss the importance of team participation because no one gives input at our staff meetings.” This is a safe tool that lets others know about expectations in a non judgmental way. Do your best not to use the word – you!

Click here for my 3 minute video on the power of direct communication. I tell a story about a neighbor borrowing a rake and my clients really enjoy the message.

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Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

Click here for my 3 minute video on the power of direct communication. I tell a story about a neighbor borrowing a rake and my clients really enjoy the message.

March 29, 2014 By Joyce Weiss Leave a Comment

There is No I in Co-Worker but There is a WE

Do you include everyone in team meetings… even those who work on their own?
Do you want to reduce conflict in the workplace and improve communication?

What can you say and do to help others feel included? Team members who feel isolated are not going to be productive, especially when they want to be part of the team. Of course some colleagues want to work on their own and don’t want to be part of team meetings. We all have different behavioral and work styles. Different equals different. Different does NOT equal wrong!

Here are ideas to help others feel like they are an important part of the team:

1. What solutions do you have to help solve this problem?

2. I consider you to be a key team player and need your advice.

3. How do you think we can improve our staff meetings?

4. Go out to lunch with your team members.

Some of your team members may feel left out and they don’t know how to express this feeling of isolation. I suggest that everyone on your team do his or her best to be as inclusive as possible. This may sound like something that you heard in high school yet I hear numerous clients tell me how they did not feel like part of the team when they did not share office space with colleagues or were in another building. This one idea will improve morale immediately.

Click here to listen to my powerful podcasts on Team Synergy and Communication

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Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Conflict Resolution Consultant
I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results.
I teach them to tackle the tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…
The Result? My clients get a better night’s sleep!

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

Click here to listen to my powerful podcasts on Team Synergy and Communication

Weiss

March 20, 2014 By Joyce Weiss 2 Comments

Great Leaders Ask The Right Questions

Leaders who really understand the importance of employee involvement ask their team for input. This is nothing new! This is something that many leaders don’t do. You may ask…”Joyce, how can you say such a bold statement?” I’m glad that you asked. I have had the privilege of working with some of the greatest leaders in Corporate America. The questions in this article come from my clients who learned how to grow from being a good leader to becoming great in his or her field.

Voltaire suggested that we “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

Here are some thought-provoking questions you might pose. They will elicit ideas for doing things better:

1. What would you do first if somehow you became the owner of this business tomorrow morning?

2. What is the best use of your time? Your knowledge and abilities? How are they being wasted, if they are? What could you be doing that you are not doing?

3. What should I know about your work that I don’t know? What do you need to know about the business that you don’t know?

4. What seems to you to work well here? Why? What doesn’t work so well? Why do you suppose it doesn’t?

5. What opportunities do you see that we’re really not exploiting? What problems do you see ahead that we’re not aware of? What would you do about them?

6. What do customers say to you or reveal to you about our product(s) or service(s) – about price, quality, the competition? What three comments do you hear most frequently?

Click here for more ideas to improve morale and employee engagement.

Send me your GREAT Questions that you ask your team to engage them to be their very best. I will send a hard copy of my booklet, “19 Surefire Ways to Bring More Joy and Harmony into Your Life” to those of you who send me quotes that I use in future articles.

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Of course! You are welcome to print this, and any other articles we send, if you use the following byline: A recognized expert on Resolving Conflict in the Workplace, Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP is an author, accountability coach, and a Certified Speaking Professional. To book Joyce to speak at your event or company call: 800.713.1926 or email: Joyce@JoyceWeiss.com. Visit her website at www.JoyceWeiss.com to sign up for your own FREE video series on Resolving Conflict in the Workplace.

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Until next time,

This is Joyce Weiss, Conflict Resolution Consultant

I help people become top level leaders who get GREAT results. I teach them to tackle the tough conversations to build employee engagement, accountability, and rock star performance…The Result? My clients get a better night’s sleep!

Remember…You Get What YOU Tolerate!

PS Click here for more strategies to improve morale and employee engagement.

Creating a Better Work Place for Innovative Employees

You Have an OK Team…Now Make it an A Team

Making Amends to Become Better Friends

There is No I in Co-Worker but There is a WE

Great Leaders Ask The Right Questions

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