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Innovation Training Under Utilized

Gregg Fraley

But none of those factors, or all of them together, are enough to overcome untrained thinking, poor session facilitation, and an un-anchored or non-existent innovation approach. What’s needed is energy AND knowledge about How To Do Innovation. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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Strengthen 5 Dimensions of Your Culture for Innovation, Recovery and Resurgence

Values Centered Innovation

He wanted his executive team to experience what it means to “manage” the risks it took to maintain industry leadership. So he had them join in a set of team building exercises – one of which involved climbing a 30’ pole with a safety harness on, and then standing on a 12” disk at the very top (with nothing to hold on to!). .

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The Case for Internal Innovation

CREATORS

Goals of the Internal and External Innovation Programs Why Do We Need Internal Innovation? Internal innovation leads to cultural changes inside the organization AND has a potential to create incremental (or even disruptive) products and solutions. Internal innovation activities?—?if if done right?—?may

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The Case for Internal Innovation

CREATORS

Internal innovation leads to cultural changes inside the organization AND has a potential to create incremental (or even disruptive) products and solutions. Internal innovation activities?—?if And this is indeed the right approach. if done right?—?may may lead to cultural change which is essential for the company to stay on course.

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21 Rules for Innovation Team Building

Gregg Fraley

It’s the key to everything in my view, from culture change to positive team dynamics to effectiveness of an overall innovation program. It’s the one thing of innovation — do Projects. 21 Rules for Innovation Team Building. Sometimes a person simply shouldn’t be on a team.

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Strive for more than just "teamwork" - Part 2 of 2

Values Centered Innovation

If a team who has communication problems begins by trying to define and align with the group’s purpose, but without much emphasis on “tuning in” to each other as individuals first, they often struggle to collaborate, like novices in a 3-legged race. If this is the case, start with a relationship-oriented team building approach.

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Part 2: Strive for more than just "teamwork"

Values Centered Innovation

If a team who has communication problems begins by trying to define and align with the group’s purpose, but without much emphasis on “tuning in” to each other as individuals first, they often struggle to collaborate, like novices in a 3-legged race. If this is the case, start with a relationship-oriented team building approach.