Organization Performance   Getting Employees Involved   Inspiring Empowerment   9 Ways to Get Employees Involved Here are the Nine Ways to involve Employees and to elicit their ideas for improvements suggested by Bernie Sander. ① Challenge employees to seek out empowering role models in the workplace. ② Inspire supervisors to embrace new ideas ③ Encourage breakthrough outside-the-box thinking ④ Promote creativity as a learnable skill ⑤ Advocate continuous improvement ⑥ Foster the effective management of ideas ⑦ Strive to make the interactions between employees and customers as positive as possible ⑧ Adopt what is new ⑨ Coach and train continuously   Find the Right Fit for Everyone Help People Grow Inclusive Leadership Inclusive Company Questioning Culture Creative Dissatisfaction Energize Employees How To Stimulate Radical Idea Generation Barriers to Sharing Knowledge Suggestion System GE Work-Out Employee Feedback Skill/ Will Matrix   Involve everyone. Business is all about capturing intellect from every person. The way to engender enthusiasm it to allow employees far more freedom and far more responsibility. Jack Welch GE Treat your associates as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations. Behave as a servant leader in your partnership. Sam Walton WalMart The best way I know to establish and maintain a healthy, competitive culture is to partner with your people – through shared objectives and a common strategy. Michael Dell Dell Inc.   Establish a family-like environment to ensure deeper employee involvement, better collaboration, and greater employee satisfaction. "Treat your company like family. Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticise, communicate freely and respect each other," advises Richard Branson.   The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a family-like feeling within the corporation. Akio Morita Sony If you give people tools, [and they use] their natural ability and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected. Bill Gates Microsoft The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. Jack Welch GE Slides   Growth 10+ is People 10+   Notes