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3 basic rules to make your people’s ideas count

It is an old mantra that successful organizations have relied on motivated employees as one of their key competitive levers. But what are the factors that keep your front ranks motivated? Listening to what they have to say and putting in action their ideas seems a good way to start. Employees actually have a lot of suggestions that an organization can use to improve. However, many corporate initiatives intended to unleash this potential fail to deliver the expected results. Why is that? Aren’t employees willing to take part in ‘best idea’ programs? Is it that managers don’t really care about what their workforce is telling them? Far from it, many organizations start this type of programs with the best intentions, but they fail for several reasons: read more