With the advent of social media, everyone of us feel empowered. We feel we own the media to share our thoughts, our ideas. And it has somehow impacted our mindset and thinking pattern. The perks social media has delivered, I think outweighs the negatives it has unleashed over us.
Freedom to express the ideas, is perhaps the best gift we can give to someone. The same principles can be applied in an organisation. That organisation thrives and grow which authorise its employees to freely express themselves. This inculcates the habit on reflecting on issues and thinking out of the box, to tackle pressing issues and challenges faced by the set-up, amongst the employees. Also, it boosts their self-esteem and confidence and it eventually helps the organisation grow.
At #HeartyMart, we had initiated an idea of coming up with the idea box. Employees who have grown and scaled up in our set-up always get a chance to express themselves but those employees who are at the bottom of the organisational hierarchy, don’t come up with their thoughts due to various reasons. Perhaps they are scared to express themselves or perhaps they don’t trust themselves or their thinking that much and they fear that they might become a laughing stock if they shared their idea. The idea box was designed to make them part of ideation. They can anonymously share their idea and if the top management feel it has merits, the idea can be discussed and implemented. They can then come forward to claim the idea and take the appreciation.
This is a win-win proposition and we got benefited as an organisation and our employees had their own share of recognition due to this!
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