"Got Ideas?," as the program is known ... I spoke with Thienhaus and Henrie about encouraging employee input during a recent phone interview. An edited and abridged transcript appears below.

The challenge for business leaders is to make it safe for employees to share their ideas. Provide the right mix of incentives to get employees eager to share their ideas. Some people like money ...

Or, your business might be getting stale from a lack of fresh ideas. Involving staff in decision making can make your business stronger. Your employees can supply you with new ideas that you would ...

To help, eight members of Young Entrepreneur Council provide tips on how to encourage employees to share their ideas at work. Young Entrepreneur Council members share strategies to encourage ...

How can you encourage employees to share their thoughts ... Continually thank employees for their ideas, and make sure to tell employees their suggestions were heard, appreciated and, whenever ...

If you and your staff are constantly feeling the weekday ... so working as a team toward the same goals is imperative. To ...

Encouraging employee contribution requires a commitment from the company as a whole to follow through with their promise to take suggestions and feedback and find avenues to apply those ideas.

For instance, I let all employees have some time off ... my teams to be creative by asking them to explore new ideas. I encourage them to think about problems from different perspectives.

In an effort to cut costs and create new products and services, firms are seeking ideas from their own employees on everything from money-saving strategies to product design. To encourage ...

Every employee can have good ideas, so businesses should encourage everyone to be open about their thoughts. Creativity does demand divergent thinking though the best solutions come from unconstrained ...