Want to embed innovation in your workplace culture, you can. Here are some simple strategies based on the UQ Powerhouse and some of the work of Nils Vesk.

1. August 2016
How to create
an innovative culture
Unleash Your Higher Power
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2. What’s something innovative you’ve seen
recently?
What made it innovative?
How could that be applied to your work?
Innovation is everywhere

3. What does it take to create
a highly innovative team?

4. Hub and Spoke
Futurist
Hackathon
R&D
Timesheet
STRUCTURAL APPROACHES
(Source: Nils Vesk)

5. Hub and Spoke

6. Futurist Structure

7. Hackathon

8. R & D Structure

9. Timesheet Structure
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Insights Ideas Prototyping executing

10. Which one resonates?
Why?

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OR COULD INNOVATION
BE MADE AS JUST PART
of the narrative?
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12. Culture Focus Structure
Business Unit
Collaboration
Narrative
There once
was a…
Curiosity
?
Rituals
The best idea
I have seen
this week
Field Trips
UQ as Business
As Usual

13. What’s your narrative?
What do you reward at work?
Long Service? Or
Most improved innovation?

14. Insights &
Investigation
Ideas &
Ideation
Prototyping
& Iteration
Connection &
Contribution
Embedding a culture of innovation
Marketing &
Commercialisation

15. CATCH - VISION – Narrative - Investigation – insights generation,
research
HATCH – IQ – Curiosity - Ideation, ideas brainstorm, possible solutions
SCRATCH – BODY – Rituals - Iteration, rapid prototyping, test balloons
MATCH – EQ – Field Trips and Collaboration - Connection, who else
do we need to include?
DISPATCH – UQ – Business as Usual - Commercialisation, marketing
and measurement, sharing the story every 90 days
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3
4
5
Embedding a culture of innovation

16. LOVE A GOOD STORY – THE NARRATIVE
Customer service innovation – give all staff a budget of
$1000 to delight a customer.
Average spend was $80
Mines recruitment campaign
targeting female truck drivers
because they discovered they
looked after the trucks better.
Improved life of truck, less
down time.

17. CSIRO – The New Faces of Science
CSIRO has pulled seven of its brightest young scientists out of their labs and
enlisted them in a campaign to recruit future thinkers, innovators, scientists and
entrepreneurs.

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What could you innovate?
Orientation?
Site induction?
in the group to the others
– which means
the LEADER
sets the mood!

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Emotional contagion
IS FIRST AND FOREMOST A
NON-VERBAL PROCESS
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20. To repair a toxic workplace you have
to approach ‘healing’ it through many forms of energy – and
importantly through EQ BODY LANGUAGE.

21. DID YOU KNOW?
At any one time approximately 76% of employees are looking for a new job or
getting ready to walk out the door.

22. DISCUSSION
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