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Leading Innovation
Your leadership team is your most effective tool for promoting innovation…or for killing it. The climate your leaders set is the single most important factor in determining whether or not you have engaged employees and effective sustained innovation. Many common business practices and managerial attitudes, while well-intended, undermine the behaviors that drive innovation. We work with clients to ensure that your leaders, ranging from top executives to front line supervisors and high potentials, have the insights and skills they need to promote a culture of innovation.
We do this through
- Building an Innovation Engine Seminars
- Leadership Retreats and Cohorts
- Predictive Decision Making
- Strategic Thinking and Planning
Building an Innovation Engine Seminars
We help your leaders draw explicit connections between their own innovative behaviors and the way in which they promote those behaviors in others. The two are inextricably linked, so we work on both those personal attitudes and beliefs and leadership style. Typically, this means combining self-assessment and leadership development into a seminar or series of facilitated events.
Leadership Retreats and Cohorts
Retreats
Would your management team benefit from an intensive immersion experience to enhance their leadership skills? We offer retreats to renew everyone’s commitment to innovation, while gaining powerful insights into how that can best be achieved.
Cohorts
When your objective is to achieve a shift in the overall culture of your organization or business unit, the approach needs to be equally ambitious. A single event, no matter how well designed and implemented may not be sufficient. We can facilitate a series of leadership cohorts to enhance leadership capacity over time, by combining our research-based guidance with self-evaluation, mutual feedback and skill development, whole broadening and deepening the lessons learned.
Predictive Decision Making
Innovation is all about discerning the future, so we’ve developed technologies (Download White Paper PDF) to enhance the accuracy of those perceptions. We also provide guidance in reaching decisions that avoid the many landmines out there, from group think and group polarization, to misperception of risk and framing effects. Adding a little more discipline to your decision-making can save considerable time and resources, not to mention some painful lessons leaned.
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Are your strategic choices guided by the need to maintain your flexibility, adaptability and agility? Planning processes that presume to pin down all the details and eliminate surprises are doomed to failure in all but the simplest short-term scenarios. They create a false sense of security and foster cynicism. We facilitate thinking and planning that prepares you for those inevitable surprises, positioning you to make the adjustments and course corrections that will truly ensure your success.
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