It is always interesting when you become challenged with a professional development topic area… that for some reason has never been prioritized before!  Innovation, quality, teamwork and safety are all topics that come to mind when you think about continuous improvement factors.  But has anyone ever considered Creating A Culture of Participation for your workplace?  Does this specialized challenge:  Creating A Culture of Participation get your mind and memory going?

Ironically at the present time I am planning a new entrepreneur-based initiative that will test my Creating A Culture of Participation capabilities to the limit!  However, as I begin my quest to have the GREATEST event ever…I realized I need to go “back to the basics” when reassessing my Creating A Culture of Participation strategies.  Here are MY “Basic” SOLID 5 concepts for maximizing participation of partners and colleagues:

Basic 1: First, concept designs need to effectively show the mission, goals and community values of any unique participation-building project. Explaining the target audience and learning take-aways would be extremely vital.

Basic 2: Next describing in full detail the structure for delivering the innovation learning moments to those in attendance would highlight areas of special partner participation.

Basic 3: Listing the rewards for a partners investment of time and/or money would be critical to Creating A Culture of Participation.  Too often organizers of a new initiative pass over the area of partner rewards because they think they are just “obvious”.  Don’t assume this is true.

Basic 4: Also when building/ Creating A Culture of Participation it would be key to indicate that there will be an ongoing hope for continuous involvement in additional future initiatives.

Basic 5: Finally, it would be beneficial to share reflections on the extended benefits and value of partnership participation.  Creating A Culture of Participation most times has a positive infectious impact on everyone’s future.

Please give these Basic SOLID 5 strategies some extra attention. They together or separately can have very useful personal and professional benefit.