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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

But you'll need to focus on at least one other major change barrier, and that's your corporate culture. For decades, we've nurtured a careful, risk adverse, wait and see culture in most businesses, which is reinforced by compensation models, personnel recruitment and promotion, little tolerance for risk and uncertainty. Need proof?

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture. This is why understanding how organizational culture works, and how to encourage it to change, is so important. Changing culture takes emphasis, time and commitment.

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Building Cross-Cultural Relationships in a Global Workplace

Harvard Business Review

Most of us never consider how culture shapes our expectations and assumptions about relationship building. But research shows that our cultural upbringing influences how we form and maintain connections with others — often quite significantly. They may even discover they have more in common with their colleagues than they thought.

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Achieving Balance With Company Culture, Benefit Design, and Employee Well-Being

Business and Tech

A company culture that fosters flexibility and transparency is key to employees feeling comfortable, valued, and supported. However, they also feel disconnected from their co-workers and company’s culture, and report higher incidences of anxiety and depression. Where do we go from here to recover from these losses?

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Mapping Digital Transformation: Retail’s Strategic Shift

Speaker: Jennifer Wright, Michael Scholz, Jasmin Guthmann, and Scott Canney

You need to get your whole organization, from entry-level workers to executives, on board with the new tech, new skills, and culture changes that digital transformation brings. Digital transformation in retail is so much more than new technology. Leading this mindset shift can be a daunting task… but that’s where this webinar comes in!

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What is the culture you tolerate?

Idea to Value

And the size of this tolerance gap will be affected by your culture. One of the most famous examples of an organisational culture with little or no tolerance gap is the military, where people are trained to follow command and any breaches may result in expulsion, due to the inherent danger of the role.

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Innovation Unleashed: Developing a Culture of Innovation in High Potential Leaders

Leapfrogging

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes. Here are strategies to cultivate this culture among high potential leaders.

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11 Proven Ways to Turn Your Culture into a Culture of Innovation

Learn the 11 proven strategies that you can implement quickly to get every employee innovating and contributing to the growth of your company.

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Succeeding with Innovation & Transformation

Speaker: Magnus Penker, CEO & Founder, Innovation360 Group

Following his first webinar “Assessing and Fostering a Culture for Innovation”, Magnus Penker will dive into his innovation management principles on how to tackle these blockers on a massive scale. June 11, 2019 11.00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 7:00 PM GMT.

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

Join Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk), David Bland (Founder, Precoil), and Hope Gurion (Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product) in a panel discussion as they cover how - and why - to build a culture of discovery and experimentation in your organization. We'll cover: Why discovery and experimentation are important.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world. Inclusive design is about designing for as diverse a range of people as possible.

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Quantifying a Culture of Innovation

Examining five years of anonymous data from over 6 million users in 170+ countries, Spigit has discovered that a culture of innovation can be measured – with a 99% statistical confidence level – by a metric called "ideation rate." Download the eBook now for an in-depth look at this groundbreaking study.

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Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture

Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies

We'll explore the challenges, solutions, and hands-on techniques for becoming a successful "agent of change" within a well-established product culture. Join this webinar to learn how to: Turn a stagnant culture into an attention culture with highly collaborative team dynamics.

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Assessing and Fostering a Culture of Innovation

Speaker: Magnus Penker, CEO & Founder, Innovation360 Group

The assessment is a personalized 40-page report containing analytics, benchmark and recommendations on how to sharpen your strategy, leadership, culture, and capabilities for innovation. During this webinar, Magnus Penker, international thought leader and author, will dive into how to assess and foster culture and capabilities for innovation.

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OKR Roundtable: A Candid Discussion about Using Objectives and Key Results to Build Stronger Company Cultures

Speaker: Vetri Vellore, Anna Talerico, and Georgia Parker

Most of all, why are OKRs so critical to company culture? Join our esteemed panelists for their candid discussion about what OKRs are at the core, and how applying an OKR framework to your current goal management can help build stronger company cultures. How OKRs build a stronger company culture.