Elements and Performance Criteria
- Create opportunities to maximise innovation within the team
- Evaluate and reflect on what the team needs and wants to achieve
- Check out information about current or potential team members' work in the context of developing a more innovative team
- Bring people into the team or make suggestions for team members based on what needs to be achieved and the potential for cross-fertilising ideas
- Acknowledge, respect and discuss the different ways that different people may contribute to building or enhancing the team
- Organise and agree effective ways of working
- Jointly establish ground rules for how the team will operate
- Agree and communicate responsibilities in ways that encourage and reinforce team-based innovation
- Agree and share tasks and activities to ensure the best use of skills and abilities within the team
- Plan and schedule activities to allow time for thinking, challenging and collaboration
- Establish personal reward and stimulation as an integral part of the team's way of working
- Support and guide colleagues
- Model behaviour that supports innovation
- Seek external stimuli and ideas to feed into team activities
- Pro-actively share information, knowledge and experiences with other team members
- Challenge and test ideas within the team in a positive and collaborative way
- Pro-actively discuss and explore ideas with other team members on an ongoing basis
- Reflect on how the team is working
- De-brief and reflect on activities and on opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Gather and use feedback from within and outside the team to generate discussion and debate
- Discuss the challenges of being innovative in a constructive and open way
- Take ideas for improvement, build them into future activities and communicate key issues to relevant colleagues
- Identify, promote and celebrate successes and examples of successful innovation