IdeaScale

APRIL 30, 2019

What you do before and at the beginning of a hackathon has a tremendous impact on how successful it will be. The following tips should be part of your hackathon innovation strategy: Get executive buy-in because, without the active support of organizational leadership, even great ideas have little chance of being pursued.

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CMOE

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

More than skill, subject-matter knowledge, or industry experience, organizations need workers who understand the principles of teamwork and how to apply them. If you’re leading a team and want your team members to practice excellent teamwork, how would you define it for them or explain how to demonstrate it?

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CMOE

JULY 14, 2020

Helping leadership teams recover after the global pandemic will be no small task. In this blog, we will share the story of one leader who is using his experience with CMOE’s Team Alignment process to bring his team back from the brink. Case Study: Shawn. Shawn is considered by many to be a good leader. Results Forum.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Leadership Biz Cafe. The Accidental Creative. Women’s Leadership Success. Leadership and Loyalty. Dose of Leadership. The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Let’s Talk Teams by Uptick. Leadership Biz Cafe. HBR IdeaCast. Coffee with the Greats. Success Stories. Manager Tools.

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Cris Beswick

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

What is Psychological Safety and How Does It Affect Team Performance Psychological safety is the belief that team members will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

For each skill, we’ve listed some helpful interview questions for this leadership position. Team Building. Good managers should understand how to provide meaningful feedback, facilitate responsibilities, and leverage the strengths of each employee. What was the outcome of your leadership? Interview Questions.

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Tullio Siragusa

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By applying Design Thinking, COOs can increase collaboration within the company, encourage cross-functional teams, and foster a culture of experimentation and open communication. How to Encourage Cross-Functional Teams. How to Emphasize Employee-Centered Design. How to Foster a Culture of Experimentation.

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CMOE

APRIL 20, 2021

Great managers can give us vital outside leadership and perspective that we can’t get anywhere else. Try these methods to support a culture of innovation at work: Make innovation a habit: Let team members schedule a percentage of their time each week to be used for experimentation (or even daydreaming). Develop Your Strengths.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. How can you innovate if you don’t actually know how it’s done? And yes, this can be trained.

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Idea Champions

APRIL 7, 2017

A well-crafted conference design that ensures maximum engagement, teamwork, creativity, networking, commitment, fun, and follow-up. Hint: We know how to do this. Months before your event, we'll identify a mix of in-house successes and coach selected attendees how to present these successes, in story form, from the main stage.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

You can live a relatively long time with just Air and Water, so you get to decide what constitutes Food and how to procure it creatively. Agreed priorities are empowering, When you achieve consensus around Air, Water, and Food, you are making critical progress in your team building and goal setting.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 15, 2024

For guidance on developing strategic thinking within your leadership team, you may find value in 10 ways to get your leadership team thinking strategically and building the best business strategies. Establish ‘innovation labs’ or ‘hackathons’ to tackle challenges creatively.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Training in creative fields like graphic design is perfect for these types of employees. Personnel with highly developed visual intelligence can readily learn how to create striking images by hand or through computer-aided design. Maybe they’re always doodling, or they’ve filled their homes with works of art they painted themselves.

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CMOE

MARCH 10, 2021

Build the Structure. With the purpose, goals, topics, and agenda in mind, you are ready to make decisions about how to structure and execute the retreat itself. Here are some key questions to consider: How long will the retreat need to be to accomplish the goals and cover the topics sufficiently?

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

You’ll learn why each trait exists on high-performing teams, what it looks like in action, and how to build up the attribute in your own team. Why Is Decisiveness Found in High-Performing Teams? A decisive team understands how to: Make quick and effective decisions. How Can You Encourage This Trait?

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Rmukesh Gupta

JANUARY 4, 2018

So as a leader, how can you learn to do this when the default behavior is to go into problem solving mode. And how can you help your teams build this ability? How can you resist the natural urge to get into problem solving mode? & How can you instead go to a problem finding mode.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. We recently led a 4-hour long design thinking leadership workshop at an organizational culture conference held in Madison, Wisconsin. Building better teams. Lead change.

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CMOE

MARCH 31, 2023

Better problem solving: Empirical research illustrates that teams perform better than a group of individuals working alone. Experts attribute this to the group’s ability to more effectively correct issues, think creatively, process information, and solve problems. How Can I Utilize Teamwork Effectively in the Workplace?

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Psychology means decision makers do not like innovative ideas: Unfortunately, decades of research into psychology show us just how biased our brains are against creative & innovative ideas, and how they prefer safer ideas. Are there people or partners who know how to use the technology who could help us or join the team?

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etventure

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Instead, their drive is to achieve their KPIs – and which often requires strong leadership, focus and discipline. So how do we take people along? How do we address their worries about their jobs? How do we build a culture that embraces innovation – and can successfully face the challenges of the digital age?

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Innovation 360 Group

JUNE 21, 2016

At the International Conference on Knowledge, Innovation & Enterprise , researchers presented a paper on “LEGO Serious Play applications to enhance creativity in participatory design.” The conclusions were that LSP excelled at tasks such as: awakening latent creative energies to spur innovative thinking.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Diverse Perspectives and Innovation: A bottom-up approach brings diverse viewpoints to the table, fostering innovation and creative problem-solving. Impact: The policy not only spurred product innovation but also enhanced employee engagement and creativity. This sense of ownership increases motivation and engagement.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Rather, people tend to confuse shared governance for participatory leadership. Gen Guanci, a consultant at Creative Healthcare Management, describes it this way: “Shared governance is a structure and process for partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership. Here, functional teams provide input to leadership teams.

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Michael Roberto

OCTOBER 6, 2016

His newest book is titled, Great Teams: 16 Things High Performing Organizations Do Differently. You focus in the book on the notion that great sports teams build a strong high-performance culture. Targeting Purpose— The team is connected to a greater purpose. But culture building doesn’t stop there.

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