The document discusses the importance of innovation and creativity for organizations. It provides quotes from business leaders emphasizing the need for companies to innovate. It also explores characteristics of innovative organizations, common barriers to creativity, and strategies for encouraging innovation such as embracing new ideas, collaborative work, and having the right leadership and systems in place.
UHY Advisors - Sparking Creativity and Fostering InnovationChris Osborn
This is a presentation - a new version - of Sparking Innovation and Fostering Innovation delivered May 26, 2010 to a group of UHY Advisors young professionals and clients.
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture BeastProduktbezogen.de
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture Beast. Präsentiert beim Reeperbahnfestival 2014 in Hamburg durch unseren Autor Daniel Neuberger.
Moonshot Thinking. How to disrupt your industry and beat the competition. Inspired by Google X and Peter Diamandis.
Moonshot thinking is shooting for the moon. Moonshots live in the gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10X improvement, not 10%.
Business Model Generation Toronto (#bmgenTO)Satish Kanwar
Our city's business model thinkers came together on Monday, November 30, 2009 to delve into a book as innovative as its topic - Business Model Generation.
Toronto held this first-of-its-kind meetup in the most organic way possible at the Centre for Social Innovation, with only 30% talk and 70% workshop powered by amazing community facilitators.
Learn more about this open, engaging and practical business model workshop at http://www.guestlistapp.com/events/7500.
* Search #bmgenTO on Twitter at http://www.search.twitter.com/search?q=bmgenTO.
* Get the book at http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/.
* Contact me at http://www.sati.sh or http://www.twitter.com/skanwar.
Thanks to our sponsors JazLabs, Jet Cooper, Orange Rhino Media, and XCINO Inc.
More coming in 2010.
As a society, we're in the age of transformation, yet we're applying old metaphors and running our transformations like software projects. Let's start to consider transformational change as a series of social movements.
UHY Advisors - Sparking Creativity and Fostering InnovationChris Osborn
This is a presentation - a new version - of Sparking Innovation and Fostering Innovation delivered May 26, 2010 to a group of UHY Advisors young professionals and clients.
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture BeastProduktbezogen.de
A Culture Of Innovation In Practice - How To Tame The Culture Beast. Präsentiert beim Reeperbahnfestival 2014 in Hamburg durch unseren Autor Daniel Neuberger.
Moonshot Thinking. How to disrupt your industry and beat the competition. Inspired by Google X and Peter Diamandis.
Moonshot thinking is shooting for the moon. Moonshots live in the gray area between audacious projects and pure science fiction; they are 10X improvement, not 10%.
Business Model Generation Toronto (#bmgenTO)Satish Kanwar
Our city's business model thinkers came together on Monday, November 30, 2009 to delve into a book as innovative as its topic - Business Model Generation.
Toronto held this first-of-its-kind meetup in the most organic way possible at the Centre for Social Innovation, with only 30% talk and 70% workshop powered by amazing community facilitators.
Learn more about this open, engaging and practical business model workshop at http://www.guestlistapp.com/events/7500.
* Search #bmgenTO on Twitter at http://www.search.twitter.com/search?q=bmgenTO.
* Get the book at http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/.
* Contact me at http://www.sati.sh or http://www.twitter.com/skanwar.
Thanks to our sponsors JazLabs, Jet Cooper, Orange Rhino Media, and XCINO Inc.
More coming in 2010.
As a society, we're in the age of transformation, yet we're applying old metaphors and running our transformations like software projects. Let's start to consider transformational change as a series of social movements.
Harness the power diversity can bring to your team or organisation. Exploring tools and techniques. Slides from public session presentations, including Agile Cambridge 2015.
Innovator's DNA - What makes top leaders innovation gurus? Unlock your innova...vedsta87
The Innovator's DNA - based on research conducted in the groundbreaking book by innovation gurus Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregerson and Clayton Christensen - unlocks the mystery behind the great leaders of innovative companies. What makes them tick? Surprisingly, we find that top innovative leaders share similar behavioral traits. They are questioners, experimenters, networkers - these behaviors drive their ability to be innovative.
Innovators are not "born with it" - research shows that only general intelligence is genetic, but creativity can be learned.
So then the question is: what about you? How can you train yourself to become an innovative leader, and flex your innovative muscles?
We provide the answers with the Innovator's DNA workshop and assessment program. Visit our website or the innovators dna site, or buy the book today. Our program trains leaders, teams, executives and senior managers to understand what drives innovation within them - and how to bring it out more regularly.
10 Quotes from Leaders on Life, Teamwork and SuccessZillow
Over the last 10 years, we’ve invited inspirational leaders to speak in our Zillow Group Speaker Series. Enjoy some of the best advice we’ve heard from Presidents, CEOs, actors and athletes.
What it takes to create innovation that wins by Andria LongAndria Long
In this presentation Andria shares her insights on 4 Keys to Driving Innovation Success:
1. Define the right goals
2. The discipline of creating what consumers REALLY want/need
3. Differentiate AND Evolve or Die
4. Embrace failure and learn from it
Andria has over 20 years of experience in consistently delivering transformational revenue growth by quickly identifying opportunities by understanding insights in the rapidly changing consumer, competitive, and industry landscape.
She has continued to synthesize her learnings and best practices and developed her own proven approach that has achieved success rates well above industry norms both in terms of revenue generated, and sustainability – staying power in market
This approach has been proven to work for a diverse range of companies in terms of size, ownership (private/family run/public), cultures, innovation capabilities and business stage (during & post acquisition, transformation, turnaround) as well as brands in terms of market position, size, budgets & categories.
Presented at the Food & Beverage Impact Summit on October 2, 2017.
Andria Long Chicagoland Food & Beverage Jan.11 2018Andria Long
Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network Innovation Breakfast: 2018 Kick Off with Andria Long
It was a great pleasure speaking at the Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network Breakfast Series.
Building an Innovation Center of Excellence is multifaceted. It takes hiring a team, building the team and organization capabilities, building a pipeline and sometimes even building the office itself. And of course this all needs to happen at the same time, no pressure.
I was asked to speak on some of my favorite pages from my innovation playbook, including what I learned building two innovation centers in Chicago. I found no matter what company I have worked out we all have similar pain points when it comes to innovation.
I choose three areas:
1. People – what you should look for in hiring and what you can expect to hear from people you work with.
2. Capabilities – I shared the importance of the role of the consumer in innovation.
3. Greatest Surprise or as I like to say, WTF moments. I shared some of the issues and challenges on driving change in an organization. From changing behaviors or routines, to driving change across an organization which can feel like shifting the titanic.
Andria Long
Innovation & Growth Expert, Speaker & Author
Sparking Creativity And Fostering Innovation Biz Library WebinarBizLibrary
We know innovation is important. In this new webinar, you\'ll learn about the critical elements to an "innovation ecosystem" that - if present and nurtured - will enable your organization to encourage the creativity of your employees and foster a culture where innovative ideas turn into profitable solutions.
Sparking creativity and fostering innovation biz library webinarBizLibrary
We know innovation is important. In this new webinar, you'll learn about the critical elements to an "innovation ecosystem" that - if present and nurtured - will enable your organization to encourage the creativity of your employees and foster a culture where innovative ideas turn into profitable solutions.
Harness the power diversity can bring to your team or organisation. Exploring tools and techniques. Slides from public session presentations, including Agile Cambridge 2015.
Innovator's DNA - What makes top leaders innovation gurus? Unlock your innova...vedsta87
The Innovator's DNA - based on research conducted in the groundbreaking book by innovation gurus Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregerson and Clayton Christensen - unlocks the mystery behind the great leaders of innovative companies. What makes them tick? Surprisingly, we find that top innovative leaders share similar behavioral traits. They are questioners, experimenters, networkers - these behaviors drive their ability to be innovative.
Innovators are not "born with it" - research shows that only general intelligence is genetic, but creativity can be learned.
So then the question is: what about you? How can you train yourself to become an innovative leader, and flex your innovative muscles?
We provide the answers with the Innovator's DNA workshop and assessment program. Visit our website or the innovators dna site, or buy the book today. Our program trains leaders, teams, executives and senior managers to understand what drives innovation within them - and how to bring it out more regularly.
10 Quotes from Leaders on Life, Teamwork and SuccessZillow
Over the last 10 years, we’ve invited inspirational leaders to speak in our Zillow Group Speaker Series. Enjoy some of the best advice we’ve heard from Presidents, CEOs, actors and athletes.
What it takes to create innovation that wins by Andria LongAndria Long
In this presentation Andria shares her insights on 4 Keys to Driving Innovation Success:
1. Define the right goals
2. The discipline of creating what consumers REALLY want/need
3. Differentiate AND Evolve or Die
4. Embrace failure and learn from it
Andria has over 20 years of experience in consistently delivering transformational revenue growth by quickly identifying opportunities by understanding insights in the rapidly changing consumer, competitive, and industry landscape.
She has continued to synthesize her learnings and best practices and developed her own proven approach that has achieved success rates well above industry norms both in terms of revenue generated, and sustainability – staying power in market
This approach has been proven to work for a diverse range of companies in terms of size, ownership (private/family run/public), cultures, innovation capabilities and business stage (during & post acquisition, transformation, turnaround) as well as brands in terms of market position, size, budgets & categories.
Presented at the Food & Beverage Impact Summit on October 2, 2017.
Andria Long Chicagoland Food & Beverage Jan.11 2018Andria Long
Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network Innovation Breakfast: 2018 Kick Off with Andria Long
It was a great pleasure speaking at the Chicagoland Food & Beverage Network Breakfast Series.
Building an Innovation Center of Excellence is multifaceted. It takes hiring a team, building the team and organization capabilities, building a pipeline and sometimes even building the office itself. And of course this all needs to happen at the same time, no pressure.
I was asked to speak on some of my favorite pages from my innovation playbook, including what I learned building two innovation centers in Chicago. I found no matter what company I have worked out we all have similar pain points when it comes to innovation.
I choose three areas:
1. People – what you should look for in hiring and what you can expect to hear from people you work with.
2. Capabilities – I shared the importance of the role of the consumer in innovation.
3. Greatest Surprise or as I like to say, WTF moments. I shared some of the issues and challenges on driving change in an organization. From changing behaviors or routines, to driving change across an organization which can feel like shifting the titanic.
Andria Long
Innovation & Growth Expert, Speaker & Author
Sparking Creativity And Fostering Innovation Biz Library WebinarBizLibrary
We know innovation is important. In this new webinar, you\'ll learn about the critical elements to an "innovation ecosystem" that - if present and nurtured - will enable your organization to encourage the creativity of your employees and foster a culture where innovative ideas turn into profitable solutions.
Sparking creativity and fostering innovation biz library webinarBizLibrary
We know innovation is important. In this new webinar, you'll learn about the critical elements to an "innovation ecosystem" that - if present and nurtured - will enable your organization to encourage the creativity of your employees and foster a culture where innovative ideas turn into profitable solutions.
This is a presentation given to the WVU General Surgery Department on innovation, inventing, and entrepreneurship. My takes on the ideal bioentrepreneur and the basic steps to getting started.
Innovation training and transformational management in Belgrade SerbiaMiodrag Kostic, CMC
Presentation from the training course on how to improve business innovation and transform your organisation in Serbia, Belgrade?
http://www.businessknowledge.biz/
Learn the 5 Discovery Skills of Out-Performing Innovators
Based on the innovator’s DNA study by Christensen et al
Presented by Linda Naiman Founder, Creativity at Work.com
For ProductCamp, Vancouver 2013
For your assignment this week, in 2-3 pages think of a work-relate.docxalisoncarleen
For your assignment this week, in 2-3 pages think of a
work-related failure
that you experienced or you are aware of and after describing it,
answer the following questions:
What individual and/or organizational factors might have contributed to the failure?
What was the manager's or organization's reaction to the failure? How does that reaction compare to what you learned in this week's lesson?
Did it become a learning experience? If so, in what way? If not, why not?
Based on what your learned would you describe this organization as innovative? Why or why not?
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Lecture Reading
Last week we learned that we minimize risk associated with innovation by managing a portfolio of innovations. That risk results when innovative ideas don’t result in marketable products or reduced costs. This week we focus on the culture of failure.
There are many legends about the innovative success of companies and their founders, including great financial rewards. Microsoft and Google both started life in a garage and their founders are now billionaires!
It’s easy to assume that the products or processes in these stories were “light bulb” ideas, generated in full form and ready for the market. What we don’t usually hear about are products that were tested by these same companies but were not successful, about the financial investments made in trial products that never earned a return.
Apple, often considered the most innovation-driven companies in the world, and certainly, the company that has launched the most disruptive innovation in the last decade, has also acquired experience in innovation failure. A few years ago, it launched its Maps application which caused controversy, leading CEO Tim Cook to publicly apologize.
Dannon has invested millions in developing a new kind of yogurt, one that claimed to offer benefits to the skin. The result?
Essentis
was retired from the market.
Microsoft has failed many times as well, such as with its Zune Player. And, even in its core business, the operating systems Windows Vista and Windows 8 have caused controversy.
French automobile maker Renault has also failed to penetrate the high-end market segment with its VelSatis.
Google, often considered to be a paragon of innovation, has failed many times. Its product meant at competing against Wikipedia, called
Knol
, has been discontinued. Google Reader and Google Buzz
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, as well. Most of its successful innovations were, in fact, start-up acquisitions such as YouTube.
Today the conventional wisdom is that innovative companies need to be prepared for
failures
. Author Langdon Morris stated “A healthy percentage of projects should fail, because failure is an indication that we are pushing the limits of our current understanding hard enough to be sure that we are extracting every last bit of value from every situation and at the same ...
Nurturing Failure: creating a risk-tolerant library culture that embraces cha...Chris Sweet
The culture of success is pervasive in our society. It is unacceptable to get anything other than an “A”. “Win at all costs.” “No room for error.” At the same time, we know that great inventions always come after a long string of failures. In the corporate world, a few very successful companies and entrepreneurs have learned that calculated risk and the freedom to fail are the keys to innovation and progress. Richard Farson, author of Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins hit the nail on the head when he wrote: “Relying on conventional, outmoded ideas about success and failure stands in the way of your ability to innovate, compete, and stay ahead of the curve in a changing economy.” This webcast will examine how creating a risk-tolerant culture can aid in keeping academic libraries both vibrant and relevant in the current economy.
7 questions to test innovations for big and unreasonable profit potential Simon Kirby
Logical frameworks are wonderful for shaping new ideas and explaining innovation to corporate sponsors, venture capitalists, bank managers and spouses. This article explains the seven questions you need to answer to test the potential of a new innovation.
5 Ways to Improve Connection and Engagement with Remote TeamsBizLibrary
Remote work looks different for every organization. But no matter if this is the first time 100% of your employees are working remotely, you have a hybrid system made of office and front line workers, or if only a handful of employees work from home a few days a week, we’re all challenged with the same thing, creating meaningful connection with our remote teams. So how are we able to fill the human connection gap?
Join us for an open discussion centered around the five strategies BizLibrary has used to create connection and boost engagement among our newly remote teams. During this interactive webinar Director of Talent Development & Culture at BizLibrary, Libby Mullen, will explain simple ways to foster genuine conversations and bring your remote teams together.
Get ready to take notes and ask questions! During this engaging webinar, you’ll learn:
-The power of conversation - how to be a coach and care for employee well-being.
-The tools needed to foster more connection between all teams, regardless of their location.
-The balance of building trust and having fun to keep your employees engaged and productive.
Training Program of Dreams: If You Market It, They Will ComeBizLibrary
“I don’t know where to begin…. I’m not the expert. I don’t have enough time. I’ve tried this before.” Sound familiar? While marketing your training program can seem like a daunting task for HR and L&D professionals, it is actually much simpler than you might imagine. During this session, you will learn how to overcome these common challenges and understand the effect marketing has on your overall training program success.
This session’s key learning objectives:
-How to build excitement around your training program and drive utilization through a marketing strategy
-Examples you can use to measure the success of your marketing efforts
-An easy process to create simple resources that anyone can produce without marketing experience
Microaggressions what are they and how can i avoid using themBizLibrary
Is that your real hair? Can I touch it?" "Where are you actually from?" "You’re so articulate!”
Do any of these sound familiar to you? Maybe you’ve had a few co-workers repeat some of these questions or phrases to you or maybe you yourself have asked a few coworkers some of these questions, not knowing you've probably just offended that person with what is commonly known as a microaggression. There are racial-, gender- and identity-based microaggressions, as well as others that can be found in today’s workplaces.
As more and more organizations continue to take a public and bold stance against racism, it’s important that they practice what they preach. During this session, you will learn how to identify what microaggressions are, and more importantly, how you can upgrade your old vocabulary to one that’s inclusive and appropriate for the modern workforce.
This session's key learning objectives include:
Understanding the need and benefit of embracing an anti-racist relationship with your fellow coworkers
Understanding the difference between microaggressions and macroaggressions, as well as the three most common types of microaggressions found in today’s workforce: racial-based, gender-based, and identity-based microaggressions
What you should actually say the next time you want to have an informative conversation with your black coworkers and other coworkers of color
Addressing Mental Health in the WorkplaceBizLibrary
Let’s face it: Work can be stressful. In fact, the Attitudes in the American Workplace VII report found that 80% of workers feel stress on the job, and nearly half say they need help in learning how to manage stress. Although the conversation around mental health is becoming less stigmatized, it’s still a difficult topic to discuss in the workplace. In addition to the red tape and legal concerns, leaders may not feel comfortable advising others because they, themselves, are also grappling with mental health concerns.
This complimentary Training Industry webinar, sponsored by BizLibrary, will empower human resources (HR) and learning and development (L&D) professionals to effectively and ethically address and support employees’ mental health and well-being on an individual and organizational scale.
This interactive webinar will provide actionable insights on:
The main causes and negative effects of stress at work.
Strategies for how HR and L&D can stop the stigma around discussing mental health.
Techniques for managing stress and anxiety.
How to Develop Agility Within Your Training Program to Help Your Learners Suc...BizLibrary
It is time to adapt your training programs. We are all talking about adapting learning in the face of disruption, but have you done it? We know these last few months have not been easy for anyone — and there’s probably not a lot of room left on your plate. However, this is the perfect time to transition your in-person training (ILT) courses to an online, or blended, format. Why? A PRNewswire study found that 66% of employees are working remotely right now. And, according to a study by The Grossman Group, over half of employees want to continue working from home after the pandemic. You must keep your learners engaged to ensure your virtual, or blended, training programs are successful.
Join us for this complimentary Training Industry webinar, sponsored by BizLibrary. Your host, Tom Braning, Product and Solutions Expert at BizLibrary, will break down the steps of transitioning your ILT program to a blended or virtual format seamlessly.
You will learn:
How to transition from ILT to a blended or online training format in a few simple steps.
Ways to build learning agility within your employees so they are prepared for the transition.
Strategies to keep remote learners engaged in your new training program.
7 Steps to Create a Competency-Based Training ProgramBizLibrary
Employee training is fluid, dynamic, and complex – which is why competency-based training is a more important strategic component of today’s employee learning strategies. Competency-based training links individual performance to the goals of the organization. A defined set of competencies for each role in your organization illustrates the behaviors, reinforces organization values, and provides the strategic direction employees need to achieve organizational objectives.
How Training Managers Can Use Self-Development to Improve Their ProgramsBizLibrary
As a training program manager, you spend so much time and energy developing others that focusing on your own self-development may feel less important, but it’s not! In fact, the more a program manager invests in their own skills, the more impact they can have on an organization. Join Director of Talent Development & Culture at BizLibrary, Libby Mullen, for an interactive discussion on self-development, and why it is imperative for a training program manager to find the balance between their own self-development and developing their workforce, to achieve a program with maximum engagement and higher ROI.
In this webcast, you’ll learn about:
Seven competencies of a program managers’ personal development
How to align your own goals and metrics to your company’s goals for improved results
A framework to gain respect and buy-in from leadership for your training program
How to Prepare Your Organization for a Safe Re-Entry During COVID-19BizLibrary
As organizations contemplate options for re-entry, a lot of questions emerge. How can everyone remain safe? What if someone gets sick? When is the right time to go back? Should we even re-open the office? With companies like Twitter and Google opting for their employees to remain home for an extended period of time or even indefinitely, it can be hard to know what’s best for your organization.
While there is not a simple answer to these questions, during the webinar, Director of Learning Culture and Talent Development at BizLibrary, Libby Mullen, is going to explain one thing that all organizations must do to make this transition as smooth as possible. Organizations must consider both employees’ physical and mental health and safety when creating their plan for a successful re-entry into the workplace.
Join Libby as she discusses these important topics and more during the webinar!
· How to prepare for re-entry before anyone steps foot into the office
· Why employees’ mental health must be taken as seriously as physical health during this time of uncertainty
· Guidelines and precautions from the CDC on how to safely return to work
· Assessments to uncover what is the right move for your organization
How to Gain Leadership Buy-In for Your Training ProgramBizLibrary
Leadership support is critical to the success of a training program, but many HR and L&D departments are challenged in building that bridge and actually gaining the support that is necessary. In this session, Katie Miller from BizLibrary will look at why leadership buy-in is critical and introduce a 10-step program to make it happen.
The High EQ Leader: How Emotional Intelligence Can Impact Your OrganizationBizLibrary
A few years ago, feeling and showing emotions could be signs of a weak leader. But in recent years, and especially in the wake of a worldwide crisis, being able to connect to one’s emotions and the emotions of others is one of the greatest predictors of success for leaders and their organizations. Leaders who continually develop their emotional intelligence (EQ) are able to better navigate themselves and their teams through challenging situations like having difficult conversations, layoffs, low employee engagement, high turnover, and more.
Join us for this complimentary webinar, and we’ll help you get started with a development plan for your leaders, managers, and key employees to help improve EQ across your organization, proving that understanding emotions is the key to long-term leadership and organizational growth.
During this interactive webinar, you’ll learn:
How to identify the four facets of emotional intelligence in leaders
Strategies to improve leaders’ self-awareness, in turn improving their teams’ engagement and productivity
How to create an EQ development plan for your entire organization
Horizontal vs Vertical Career Pathing: How to Make Promotions WorkBizLibrary
Receiving a promotion is the epitome of an employee’s growth and success, but many companies are misusing promotions. As high performers reach their peak, they’re being promoted to managers solely based on performance. This type of career pathing is creating a domino effect in companies. The newly promoted managers often do not have the skillset to manage, therefore their employees become disengaged and your bottom line starts suffering more and more. How can we stop this domino effect from happening?
Join Tiffany Kummer from BizLibrary as she explains her strategy for career pathing using two different approaches, vertical and horizontal. Not everyone is meant to manage (or wants to), and that is okay. Tiffany will show you how you can still advance your high performers without putting them and your company in an unfavorable position.
What Makes a Great Employee Benefits Package?BizLibrary
With a new decade comes a new wave of employee benefits. According to SHRM, personalization of benefits packages is the #1 action companies need to take to win over this diverse and multi-generational workforce we live in. But, with the list of requested benefits growing, it can be difficult to know which benefits will have the biggest impact on your recruiting and retention efforts.
Join BizLibrary and BambooHR for a fireside chat-style webinar. During this webinar, you’ll get the opportunity to hear from two top HR experts as they discuss the evolution of benefits and which benefits are most popular, and give their advice on how to build a personalized benefits package that meets the demands of your top talent.
Key factors that have caused benefits to evolve, and the three most popular benefits today
How to make a personalized plan by combining traditional and non-traditional benefits
Strategies to create a benefits package that emulates your company culture
L&D's Role in Closing the Soft Skills GapBizLibrary
Organizations have tried all types of approaches to fill the soft skills gap. They’ve gone on hiring sprees, brought in consultants and even administered lengthy tests to candidates before hiring — but to little avail, as those gaps remain. What’s the next step? What are these organizations missing?
Training. Upskilling current employees is the most effective and cost-efficient way to bridge skill gaps and create an organization that’s ready for the future. But it doesn’t take just any kind of training.
Join us for this complimentary Training Industry webinar, sponsored by BizLibrary. Katie Miller will discuss the best training strategies to use when looking to close your employees’ soft skills gaps.
Training for Success: Balancing Compliance and Professional DevelopmentBizLibrary
Professionals within the banking and financial services industries are aware that the industry is in a constant state of change. Regulatory compliance demands banking and financial institutions provide training to remain compliant, which often causes supplemental training, that benefits your employees’ development, to be overlooked.
If you’re only providing compliance training to your employees, you’re missing the chance to give your organization and employees a competitive edge! Join Katie Koloj and Brianna O’Hara from BizLibrary as they explain the differences and benefits of compliance-only training verses overall professional development training in terms of your employees’ development. They’ll discuss how you can balance the compliance training required to keep your organization in business and the professional development training needed to give your organization a competitive advantage.
During this webinar you’ll learn:
• Defining compliance and professional development training
• How compliance training and professional development training can affect your organization
• Why balancing compliance and professional development training will help your organization succeed
• Three things to keep in mind when choosing your training methods
5 Ways to Prepare Your Organization for a Successful 2020BizLibrary
It’s that time of year again, time to start planning for next year!
As we approach the final months of 2019, it’s helpful to use this year’s successes to create a plan for next year and beyond. But, that can be easier said than done. With an abundance of opinions from leadership and staff and data collected from research, it’s overwhelming trying to prioritize what needs to be done. And when things get overwhelming, it often leads to nothing taking priority.
You don’t have to figure out this plan alone! Join Libby Mullen from BizLibrary and JD Conway from BambooHR as they discuss five strategies every company should use. These strategies come from simple concepts that you can easily implement at your organization to put you on the path to success.
During this webinar you’ll learn:
- Why culture is an important factor for any successful company, and how to align culture to company goals.
- How continually supporting your employees throughout the employee journey makes it easier to plan for the future.
- A five-part game plan that will guide you to organizational success in 2020.
Learn to Actually Engage Your Employees Why 87 Trillion Isn't Enough biz libraryBizLibrary
Despite soaring profits and unprecedented business successes, employers across the globe continue to struggle with engaging their employees; studies find the average rate for employee engagement hovers around just 15 percent in the United States.
In this program, Derek Smith of BizLibrary will help you understand the true value of an engaged employee. He will offer models and practical strategies that will optimize your organization to achieve increased employee engagement.
You will learn:
The importance of engaging employees, and why higher engagement will help you improve business outcomes
Why employee engagement is not a business challenge - understanding its root causes
Research-based working theories about what engages employees
Strategies that you can take and apply to increase engagement at your organization
9 Characteristics of Top Employee Training ProgramsBizLibrary
The spotlight on organizations’ employee development opportunities continue to grow. When they feel the pressure, organizations look towards L&D and HR to create the perfect employee training program. But employee training is not effective in a one-size-fits-all approach. Organizations have unique challenges that must be addressed for their program to be successful.
There may not be one simple answer to building the perfect employee training program. But after working with training managers in various industries and situations, we’ve found nine characteristics that are consistently present in all the best ones.
Join us for this complimentary Training Industry webinar, sponsored by BizLibrary. Employee Development Analyst Katie Miller will explain how to build the nine predictive elements of a top program into your employee development strategy, creating a program that will help solve the unique challenges at your organization.
This interactive webinar will provide easy-to-understand insights on:
- How to find or become a champion for learning at your organization
- Building a training program that reaches learners at the right time and place, to increase utilization
- A step-by-step plan designed to master the nine elements and build a top training program
How to Develop High Potential Employees in Your Organization BizLibrary
Your people are your organization's most valuable asset; training and developing people for new positions and challenges is not only more cost effective than hiring new talent, but it also helps them stay engaged. The problem is that many organizations struggle to identify the best development strategies and career paths for their employees. And when employees — particularly high-potential employees — feel as if they don’t have the right growth opportunities in your organization, they’ll go looking elsewhere.
How to identify employees’ strengths, including those that are less visible
Strategies for developing high-potential employees
How to motivate and retain your people
How to Build a Learning Culture to Inspire Employee GrowthBizLibrary
Do you know the No. 1 area of investment for HR in 2019? It’s employee training and development, according to a study by Payscale.
Why? Because, constant change in the modern workplace demands employees to continuously adapt and learn new skills. LinkedIn’s talent research shows that half of the most in-demand skills today didn’t even make the list just three years ago.
Employees and employers are both recognizing the need for training and development. In fact, LinkedIn reports that 94 percent of employees say that they would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development.
So how do you create a culture for learning at your company that inspires employees to grow?
In this webinar, experts from BizLibrary and The Predictive Index will share their expertise on:
Why you should invest in employee learning and development
How to motivate your employees to make time for their growth
How to create a culture that facilitates learning
From Peer to Leader: How to Develop Your First-Time ManagersBizLibrary
The transition from individual contributor to manager can be a daunting task. A survey by CEB, now Gartner, revealed that more than 50% of new managers fail. Balancing new responsibilities while learning how to lead former peers is a common challenge that most first-time managers struggle to overcome.
During this webinar, Learning & Development Manager Libby Mullen will discuss this challenge and five others that new managers face. She’ll explain why management training is a crucial element to success as your newly promoted managers transition to roles that require new, and frequently unfamiliar, skills and competencies.
Key takeaways:
Identify key strengths and improve weaknesses of first-time managers
Improve the relationship of new managers and their employees through emotional intelligence development and coaching techniques
Create a training plan that builds confidence and increases productivity for your new managers
4. We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence. Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
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7. Are you a Mac or PC? iPod, iTunes, Apple Stores, AppExchange, iPad Windows Vista, Windows 7, Zune, Media Player
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9. In early 2000, Apple was 1/10th the size of IBM and Microsoft. As of 5/24/2010 - Apple’s Market Cap was $227.74 billion - Microsoft was $233.1 billion Yahoo Finance
10. “ Every organization - not just business - needs one core competence: innovation .” Peter F. Drucker 1909 - 2005
12. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift . - Albert Einstein
18. Characteristics of Innovative Organizations Embrace new things Decisive & forward looking Collaborative Right people & Systems Leadership
19. Half of the great innovations in the world happened from great insights, the other half happened by accident, and none of them have been on the schedule. - Roger McNamee
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21. I didn’t fail. I just found 1000 ways not to make a light bulb. - Thomas Edison
From IBM’s international conference on Innovation held in Italy in 2006.
Do we accept the proposition that the organizations that are most prepared to innovate have the best chance of success in this economic environment? Are you willing to take that one step farther? Organizations - in order to survive - must learn to be innovative.
Has anyone heard of WANG in 10 or 15 years? It’s doubtful you have, and that’s for a very good reason. The company doesn’t exist anymore. Wang represents a fundamental failure to innovate. The organization was plagued by poor leadership, adherence to dogma, if failure to question direction, inpatients, a lack of trust and openness on the part of senior management and a resistance to risk. All of these factors blended together to do what was a very successful organization.
“ Don't be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking.” Steve Jobs commencement address address to Stanford University in 2005.
The "we're on the face of the earth to make great products" Apple chief operating officer Tim Cook during a 2009 earnings conference call. The success magazine.com May 19, 2010.
Hard to top Albert Einstein for statements about creativity. Here’s a man who failed mathematics classes as a student. So how did he make the impact he did upon all of us? In a word - curiosity. His innate curiosity about how the world around him worked led him to develop novel and creative explanations for what he observed.
The top competency sought by CEO’s in leaders today - creativity. From a Bloomberg Business week survey, May 18, 2010
Hard to top Albert Einstein for statements about creativity. Here’s a man who failed mathematics classes as a student. So how did he make the impact he did upon all of us? In a word - curiosity. His innate curiosity about how the world around him worked led him to develop novel and creative explanations for what he observed.
If we define creativity as the discovery of a new idea or connection, it’s something we all do everyday in a variety of ways. Every time we speak, we are making new connections between our observations and our expression. Now - admittedly, some of us are more creative than others, but each of us has some capacity for creativity. Some people (and by extension, some organizations) seem more predisposed to be creative than others. So - in the end, this is really all about people.
1. The seeds of creative thinking include bleeding and creativity being curious and discovering new connections was the creative ideas and identify there must be developed into a strategic idea so they can bring value to the organization into the marketplace. 2. The seeds of strategic thinking include seeing the big picture understanding the present but looking to the future and doing the extraordinary. Now how’s this for a tired and worn out “buzz” term? But as tired as it is, strategic thinking is important. The problem is there is so much static, poor writing and poor training on the subject the concept has gotten a bad rap - in some cases deservedly so based upon some of the truly awful training session or strategic planning sessions I’ve observed. Most of the the issues with the concept stem from the fact that too much work in the area is too theoretical and can’t be effectively applied to the situations most of us actually face in our organizations. So - let me offer a more practical way of viewing the concept. Strategic thinking is about linking creativity with value. Think of the “dot com” frenzy of the 1990’s. There was a lot of creativity out there, but very few organizations effectively linked creative concepts to real value. 3. The seeds of transformational thinking involve the human side of innovation and include seeking greater awareness in dealing with the resistance to change, building the collaborative networks needed support needed to support new ideas, developing courage and igniting passion, and, above all, taking action. After all - if we can’t implement, what’s the point?
That brings us to this definition of innovation. Innovation is the profitable implementation of strategic creativity. If we accept this as a working definition, we can remove some of the mysticism and fuzziness that can accompany the concept. As you can see, innovation - if you approach it this way - has a definite bottom-line oriented outcome as its goal or objective.
There are three fundamental types of innovation - efficiency, evolutionary and revolutionary or disruptive. Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen (read excerpt). (Explain differences.) So let’s talk about a few things innovation is not: technology sector specific (telecommunications, etc.) only for R&D for special teams creative playrooms one-off event just creativity training just applicable to new products Innovation CAN be: process improvement, new event, event planning, etc.
Flip sides of the same coin. But these are important questions.
We could just as easily title this slide “Characteristics of Innovative People.” Whether it’s at the organizational level or individual level, innovation does not occur unless: Top 10 characteristics of innovative organizations are: 1. Empower all employees, partners, and suppliers to take an active role in innovation. 2. They welcome new ideas and new approaches. 3. Look to the future to anticipate a customer's future needs. 4. They redefine the rules of the game and challenge complacent competitors. 5. They empower their customers with information and more control over the purchasing process. 6. They embrace new technology distinction strengthen their competitive advantage. 7. They employ internal processes that support innovation. 8. They allocate resources to find, develop, and implement new ideas. 9. They reward innovative efforts. 10. They move quickly. The seeds of innovation. Elaine Dundon, page 141 An interesting element here is the quality of staff. According to Peter Drucker, Innovation MUST be a core competency for successful organizations . If true, that means PEOPLE who can innovate are crucial to future success. Anyone disagree with that? It does make sense. Seven months ago, what was the economic landscape like? Will we see more or less change going forward? If change is the one constant, won’t the best and most successful organizations prepare their culture and locate the talent necessary to move towards the future? So - if innovation is a critical core competency for organizations, organizations need people who posses the core competencies that will allow them to innovate. So - again - what can we do on a day-to-day basis. Obviously, make sure we have the right people around us, but - be ready to try new things, forget about the “right” or tried and true way of doing things, and let go! Chaos can be very liberating - to a point. But don’t worry about controlling everything. People need space, room and time to be innovative and creative. But most importantly, you need people who are curious and not afraid to question things.
He's Mark Zuckerberg's coach, Bill Gates' editor, Bono's business partner, and an owner of Forbes. Portfolio.com - Rock Stars of Tech
But even before creative solutions can be developed, you MUST have a great question. Here’s a great illustration of HOW the question being addressed impacts the answer. (Tell Post-It story.)
This is my favorite quote on the subject of innovation. Edison is telling us something extremely important. Creativity and innovation is more about failure than success. But - do we remember any of the ways Edison found to NOT make a light bulb? No - we remember the great idea.
As we said before - innovation always starts with good questions. As you brainstorm to set the stage for innovation, break an issue down into its smallest bit - or lowest common denominators. Ask “why” until you can’t ask anymore.
After you’ve gotten through the “why” questions, now frame a challenge to address one of the elements, pieces or fundamental parts of a problem. Phrase the discussion to generate ideas as “how might we . . . .” Keep the challenges simple, direct and unambiguous. Also, don’t add qualifiers at this stage. The prupose of this type of conversation is simply get ideas out there!
Not every idea will be a good one. So? You need to develop lots of ideas in order to find one or two that can really work.
A change in perspective can frequently yield amazing results as you develop ideas or examine issues and problems. It’s one of the great reasons the best brainstorming groups are built from a wide variety teams, disciplines, ages, etc. Sometimes the worst people to try and develop creative ideas about something are the very people who’ve been dealing with the issue. There really is substantial value in diversity of points of view.
We don’t all have to have the courage to stand in front of tanks to express our dissatisfaction with the status quo. But sometimes it feels like that in organizations, doesn’t it? One of the common traits that great innovators have all shared is a deep-seated distrust of the status quo. Bobby Kennedy once said, “Others see things as they are and ask why, and I see things as they might be and ask why not.” It’s this type of push against the status quo which helps all of us better. These types of questions and this attitude help us see things in a different way, and frequently see brighter and more prosperous future.
Four things WE can do as professionals to foster our own sense of creativity and innovation. Also - get a coach and find a reverse mentor
HR is the critical place within an organization for ensuring that the right people are in the right places. We talked about many of the competencies that and it native people share. Except human resources to recruit The key competencies required to be innovative or not always easy to identify and we certainly don’t always think of them as valuable within organizations. For instance how many of us really value people who question the status quo relentlessly? While this characteristic in behavior may not always be constructive or appropriate, it is exactly this characteristic can be a type of behavior that helps foster innovation.
Tel IBM story and how collaboration through world wide social media is driving innovation at the grass roots level of the company.