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What’s important is to develop that potential, capacity
and ability . . .and focus it on what really matters
Every person has the potential
to be innovative
Every person has the capacity
to think innovatively
Every person has the ability
to do their work innovatively
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WHAT ARE YOUR WORK CHALLENGES THAT REQUIRE INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS?
What kinds of innovative work challenges do you often face (individually or as a workgroup)?
Revenue-producing (top-line) innovations – For example:
Products / services Technologies Design Brand experiences Marketing and sales Advertising
Process (mid-line) innovations – For example:
Re-engineering Quality improvement Productivity improvement Work simplification Supply-chain management Project management
Talent and knowledge innovations – For example:
Knowledge management Talent training and development Centers of Excellence Communities of Practice Employee relations Intrapreneur-ism Socio-technical systems
Leadership innovations – For example:
Business models Business strategy Organizational culture Organizational design Leadership development Management practices
Stakeholder innovations – For example:
Supplier relations Customer loyalty Academic alliances Strategic partners Community relations Environmental sustainability Corporate Social Responsibility
To what degree do you need to strengthen your skills in:
1. Innovative thinking, such as:
Striving to expand the diversity of approaches to innovative thinking
Experimenting with how to combine the best ideas of many people to see what
works best
Modifying, optimizing and building upon what has already been accomplished
Exploring with intuitive insights to discover the new and novel
Envisioning the ideal future and what it would look like to achieve it
Developing versatility in shifting from one mode of innovative thinking to
another
Valuing and respecting the contribution made by each different way of
innovative thinking
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2. Strong, positive values, such as:
Striving to develop human values: the qualities of good character found across
cultures and throughout time
Focusing your innovative efforts on setting a positive, broadminded, meaningful
purpose and direction
Focusing your innovative efforts on initiating respectful, caring, trustworthy rela-
tionships with others
Focusing your efforts on taking principled, creative, and decisive action with ac-
countability
Strengthening positive values as the basis for what, why, and how you innovate
Emphasizing good character as a basis for cross-cultural teamwork
UNDERSTANDING AND FOLLOWING A PROCESS FOR INNOVATION
To what degree do you (individually or as a group) spend high quality time on each of these tasks in the innovation process:
Establish a purpose or goal to give a meaningful purpose, goal or direction and to establish “stretch goals” to strive for
Evaluate and celebrate both achievement + learning to ensure that knowledge-creation is assessed along with tangible accomplishments and to be energized to move on to your next project
Assess the risks associated with the purpose or goal to bring the concerns and fears up front so they can stimulate innovative thinking rather than hinder it
Tap into your character
to energize the motivation, courage, and character needed to accomplish the purpose or goal
Determine the priority issues that need resolving to gain the “systems integrity” view needed for holistic solutions to emerge and to focus on the most important priorities for innovation
Generate a wide range of creative solutions to bring out your natural capacity to contribute your original, creative ideas
Develop and decide on the best solution to strengthen the collaboration needed to implement the solution, especially when multiple stakeholders are impacted
Implement the solution to provide the unity of thought, word and deed essential to implementation
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To what degree do you need to strengthen your skills in both “global and local” thinking, such as: Seeing the whole
WHILE managing the parts Reacting to situations as they are occur
WHILE anticipating situations before they occur
Finding do-able, here-and-now solutions to a situation
WHILE achieving a higher purpose
Seeking best long-term solutions to situations
WHILE seeking the optimal short-term solutions
Analyzing the individual factors affecting a situation
WHILE seeing the whole system of influences
Gaining the knowledge to make practical decisions
WHILE Identifying the higher principles needed to make wise choices
To what degree do you need to strengthen your ability to engage in the group learning process, which includes:
Asking essential, wholistic questions
Setting a safe climate for learning from each other
Listening and reflecting deeply
Learning as whole persons, beyond your work roles
Being open to uncertainty and new viewpoints
Wisely integrating what you learn together
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PARTICIPATING IN GROUP INNOVATION
To what degree do you actively strive to apply the following mindset and skills when innovating with a group:
Commitment to vision + human values to maintain a momentum throughout the entire innovation process, from start to finish
Conscious risk-taking
to respond to the urgency of new opportunities, challenges, and external pressures
Character and courage to evoke the innovative best of each person to channel their energy towards fulfilling the vision, mission and goals
Cooperative learning
to gather and create needed knowledge, which becomes the stimulus for innovative thinking
Creativity to develop original, novel solutions using curiosity and resourcefulness, while taking advantage of diverse styles, talent and experience
Collaborative decisions
to ensure buy-in and engagement to implement, and to ensure that innovation is practiced throughout the workgroup
Congruence in thoughts, words and deeds
to generate the trust, credibility, and togetherness needed to implement any innovative solution
Celebration of achievements and new knowledge
to provide a sense of completion that re-energizes the capacity for sustainable innovation
Align and attune team members to recognize the unique contributions each person can make
Reduce conflict through a healthy respect for differences, so you can be more innovative together
Ask the deeper questions that unlock the inner motiva-tion for your innovative work
Feel that everyone has the opportunity to make a mean-ingful impact through your work
Put your goals into a larger perspective that inspires your innovative work
Put together the right mix of talent and personalities to optimize your innovativeness
To what degree does
your workgroup
need to strengthen
its ability to:
Expand the depth and breadth of your innovative thinking
Build the character and courage it takes to “rise to the oc-casion” to produce meaningful innovations
Learn how to generate positive innovative solutions that stand out
Reduce the fear and pressure you may feel to be innova-tive, while adding freshness and newness to your work
Feel that you make a difference, a real contribution, through your work
Be continuously developing new knowledge, skills, and abilities as you grow in your career
To what degree do you
need to strengthen
your ability to:
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