Encouraging Initiative Spawns Growth

A place that encourages initiative fosters creativity, productivity and results in growth. If you find your company struggling with growth, check to see if the firm genuinely embraces and encourages employee initiative. Should you find staff and board member ideas are constantly getting squashed and shot down, there’s a potential root cause of your problem. In order for things to change for the better, that stifling culture needs some adjustment so that the ideas and people can be allowed to blossom, grow and in turn help your company grow.

Obviously, initiative alone is not always the factor in lack of growth. It could be lack of capital or appropriately trained staff or even other external road blocks related to the industry such as changing customer needs. But the one thing that a firm can control is its culture, so that's a good one to look at first to try to make a positive impact with zero financial cost.