Innovation Leadership for Success

With all the hype about innovation, from moonshots to ten-Xing, it’s good to know that there’s a deliberate process and set of mindsets that enable and support innovation. 

If innovation is to take root in your organization, people must approach their work in new ways with deliberate processes and new expectations. The change must happen at the level of what we do and how we do it that ultimately occurs at a personal level, touching attitudes about risk, experimentation, cooperation, innovation, and follow-through. This offering focuses on developing the requisite skills, behaviors, and attitudes to drive creativity and innovation forward. By working on interactive challenges that provide opportunities to learn and practice new innovation behaviors, participants emerge from this course as cultivators of creative behavior in themselves and others. The principles covered are reinforced by applying them to real world situations and participants return to work with the belief, knowledge, and experience that one person can make a difference. 

Course benefits include: 

• Enhanced innovation at an individual, team, and organization level 

• A greater sense of responsibility for behavior that enhances innovation 

• Acceptance of mistakes and the ability to leverage lessons learned 

• Cultivation of mature risk-taking 

• Improved leadership and listening skills 

• Acquisition of behaviors directed at constant improvement 

• More frequent interactions based on conscious choice 

• A shift to a win-win mentality 

• Acquisition of the skills and attitudes necessary to shift into your creative zone on demand 

• Ability to gain insights into personal creative strengths and key growth areas 

• Better ability to lead and nurture innovation with direct reports ​