If you’re looking for a way to excel further in your position, or simply assist your company in becoming more efficient, it may be time to adopt the entrepreneur’s mentality. Entrepreneurs brandish an impressive array of skills due to the nature of their careers that many corporate companies also value in their employees:  passion, creativity, and efficiency, to name a few. They cultivate dynamic ideas and see them through to the end with determination and aren’t afraid to take risks along the way.

But in a more corporate environment, there are pre-existing policies and company culture to think about. So how do you incorporate these skills and attitudes into your current role? How can you approach your duties in a way that fosters innovation and creativity without completely altering your current working style?

Try following these steps to taking a more entrepreneurial approach to your work. You could potentially influence your fellow coworkers, as well!

1. Brainstorm and pick some projects and/or ideas you’re passionate about. Make note of them: what they are, why they’re important, what you can do to execute them and who you can involve in them. The first step to entrepreneurship is to think out of the box—out of your current scope of responsibility.
2. Observe. Are others thinking this way, taking a risk? Will your new attitude be received well? Be sure to talk to your boss first about your new ideas. Together, try to pick out one or two from your list that can help both you and the company in the near future. If none of your ideas are a go, ask where you can help out more and what you can do to help increase efficiency.
3. Stow the rest of your ideas away for future reference. No matter how crazy they may seem or how they were received, just keep them in a file. Entrepreneurs always keep their ideas on hand in case there’s an opportunity to set them into motion in the future; after all, many entrepreneurs succeed because they had a crazy idea that nobody else has thought of or considered.
4. Make friends with risk. Of course, you need to be able to assess what kind of risks are okay to take in your company and what aren’t, but be prepared to step outside of your comfort zone.
5. Question everything. Why do you approach certain projects the way you do? Is there a better way to do so? How can this or that be improved? Again, the entrepreneur’s knack for fine-tuning the details to optimize efficiency is what you want to achieve by asking these questions.
6. Foster other ideas. Don’t only be open to your own; once you start taking a more entrepreneurial approach to your work, others might want to do the same. Offer your help to your coworkers and encourage them to come to you with ideas. When they do, don’t shoot any down without discussion—build off of them and talk about them first. It’s been proven that collaboration between colleagues often leads to new, innovative ideas, and such ideas are the basis for any entrepreneur’s efforts.

Of course, the number one rule of taking an entrepreneur’s approach is to remember that you don’t have quite the same working environment as an entrepreneur does. Be sure to keep your employer’s culture and policies in mind and revert to step number 2 if you’re ever unsure about one of your ideas.