Theme : Promote innovation in a team environment

Context : You work in a luxurious restaurant that is attracting a lot of guests during the summer holidays and companies for organizing functions (meetings, departures...)

The staff is mostly male and aged between 20 and 30 years.

Recently the production levels of your work group or team appear to have decreased. You need, therefore, to increase the quality and quantity of outputs.

1. How would you support and guide team members to come up with innovative problem solutions?
2. How could you encourage the team to look further than the immediate problems and to consider innovative improvement activities that could be built into future work initiatives?
3. How would you reward and recognise innovative ideas and contributions from team members and why is it necessary?