Learn how to foster innovation in business in this presentation put together by NYC entrepreneur Jonah Engler.

1. Foster Innovation

2. Far too many executives at far too many companies are yelling about
innovation when they do not empower anyone to this end. If you are
not setting an example for the people who are looking to you for
inspiration, how can you expect them to be innovative and creative?
Here are a few ways that you can practice what you preach when it
comes to innovation.

3. First of all, look for new and exciting ways to provide outreach to your
customers.
Your employees are much more likely to come to you with great ideas if
they know these ideas will be implemented in a big way. In many cases,
the ability to affect change in a viable and visible way is more important
than money. This means that you need to be incredibly all were
thinking when it comes to your social distribution and marketing
service. Let your employees see how their ideas are affecting the
outside world by utilizing the many tools that you have to increase the
reach of your marketing.

4. Secondly, be sure that your office space provides a mood for
innovative thinking.
If you do not allow your employees to express themselves in the office,
how can you expect them to be innovative or creative in any other
aspect of their working life? The days of trying to force efficiency
through stark rank-and-file homogeneity is over. Give people the ability
to be themselves. You can start by allowing them to set up their
workspace in a way that is most conducive to them, not your idea of
what an optimal office may be.

5. Third, be sure that your office is equipped with the latest technology
that will help to empower your employees to be innovative.
It is difficult to compete with other companies if you do not have the
tech to do so. Consider how difficult it must be for your employees to
innovate without modern tools.

6. While you are investing in a modern office space, invest in the
computers and the networking backbone that will allow your
employees to collaborate on projects and see their ideas through in an
efficient way. There is no reason that your employee should not be able
to contact each other over some kind of network during their off hours
and lunch breaks. If you provide them with this freedom, then you will
have much more voluntary collaboration between people in your
office.

7. This post was repurposed for distribution. To read more articles just like
this from Jonah Engler, visit his main website at JonahEngler.com.