Successful innovation requires innovative leadership. Leaders who support innovative change must be open to and willing to change their own mindsets and behaviours. In part two of our Innovative Change - Rethinking the Rules series, we share four strategies for a mindset shift in leaders looking to support innovative change in their organisation.

1. Innovative Change - Rethinking the Rules:
4 Strategies for a Mindset Shift in Leaders
Looking to Support Innovative Change
March 2014

2. Our previous presentation in our Innovative
Change - Rethinking the Rules series discussed
the 4 patterns most often seen in leaders who
hinder successful innovative change.
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3. In this presentation, we share 4 strategies to
support a shift in mindset and change those
leadership patterns which are detrimental to
transformational change.
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4. Remember, innovative change is really about
leaders looking at what is holding them back and
then supporting the organisation in its efforts to
get out of its comfort zone.
Here are four strategies on how leaders can
achieve this goal.
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5. Strategy #1 - Create Environments Supporting
Others in Personal Goal Achievement.
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6. Innovative leaders collaborate with managers
and supervisors to understand where they want
to take things in the organisation. This focus
helps make innovation a part of everyday
thinking.
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Strategy #2 - Acknowledge a Need to Retrain, be
Re-informed, and Ask for Help
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8. Innovative leaders understand the importance of
bringing specialists on board, visiting successful
organisations and bringing in change consultants
when undertaking innovative change.
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Strategy #3 - Mindful of Both Friends and Foes
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10. Innovative leaders treat their friends well, but
they also work on building respect for their foes
to avoid filtering out vital information.
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Strategy #4 - Promote Decision-Making at Every
Level
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12. Innovative leaders define accountability and
responsibility throughout the organisation
effectively which allows themselves and others to
make decisions in accordance with their levels of
authority.
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13. Questions? Contact WiserChange™
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Need support with strategies for innovating
change in your organisation? Please contact
the WiserChange™ team.
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