1. What the team needs and wants to achieve in the workplace or work area
2. How the team could be more innovative
3. How to encourage people to join the innovation team
4. How people can participate
5. Establish the ground rules for the team
6. Responsibilities of each person and communicate them to everyone on the team
7. Determine the tasks involved and share this with the team members (ensure you based this task distribution on the skills and knowledge of team members)
8. Timelines to the activities of the team
9. The types of rewards that can be provided to team members
10. Support team members and guide them throughout the process by:
    1. Modelling appropriate behaviour
    2. Gathering external ideas
    3. Sharing information, knowledge and experiences
    4. Challenging and testing ideas in a respectful manner
    5. Discussing and exploring ideas

11. The barriers to innovation that can occur within a team and broader barriers that sometimes hinder innovation

12. The different roles that people may play within a team, how this impacts on the way a team works and what it might achieve

13. The group dynamics of the team

14. The characteristics of the team (discuss how those characteristics can benefit the team

15. The characteristics of the environment that would support and encourage the innovative idea