HR Digest

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

By taking employee input, creating planning committees, encouraging creativity, introducing team-building initiatives, and allowing spaces for communication and idea generation, employers can significantly contribute to holiday morale. Support local community projects or organize donation drives to give back during the holiday season.

Morale 52

Morale Team Building Stress Planning 52

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Dana Ardi Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Books' Donnelly & Sons and at McGraw-Hill.

Venture Capitalist 78

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Beta Leaders Dana Ardi Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books'

Venture Capitalist 61

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 61

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” Curation: Increased communication and collaboration demands a new style of leadership, one Ardi calls “curating.” Dana Ardi Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Leadership Leadership Books Management'

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play. Scenario: Idea generation During traditional brainstorming exercises, it is common for those with the most positional authority or passion for the topic to dominate the conversation.

Consensus 536

Consensus Brainstorming Participative Committee 536

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Think back to the last team project you participated in at work. How did the person running the project lead the group? Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige. Which situations call for dominant leadership? Neither strategy is necessarily better than the other.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Peer Review Influence 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

There are times when you are so close to a project that it creates a mental block for idea generation. It could be anything (such as wearing a silly hat) that signals to your brain that it is time to go into idea-generating mode. Get an outsider’s opinion. Wear a silly hat.

Creativity 50

Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

It is a joint project between the Royal College of Art and Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London where designers and engineers can work in close contact with clinicians to identify challenges and provide solutions.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. In our view, Brian’s work is an excellent demonstration of strategic leadership. But Brian’s accomplishment challenges conventional definitions of strategic leadership. Those individuals came from nine countries and numerous industries.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. They convened the program’s top 75 performers — many still fresh out of business school — for a three-day stint of idea generation and problem solving.

Development 12

Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

It would therefore make sense for organizations to increase diversity in teams that are focused on exploration or idea generation, and use more-homogeneous teams to curate and implement those ideas. Good leadership helps. This is hardly surprising: leadership is a fundamental resource for groups and organizations.

Diversity 13

Diversity Creativity Analysis Consensus 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Some examples: how many employees have been trained in “lean startup” methodology, or how many new product ideas are currently being researched. Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

These forces not only rob employees of time to concentrate on completing complex tasks or for idea generation, they also crunch the downtime that is necessary for restoration. A Microsoft study found that it takes people an average of 15 minutes to return to an important project after an e-mail interruption.

Company 15

Company Agility Energy Tools 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

Though many organizations already use assessment for hiring , leadership development , team-building , and executive coaching , it has not been extended much to hiring and building better innovation teams. We suggest that you longitudinally track project successes based on profile traits of individuals and groups.

Creativity 8

Creativity Innovation Tools Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even though this (or any) sort of accommodation was rare at this firm, his supervisor agreed, acknowledging that my friend was responsible, talented, and perceived to have great potential for top leadership. However, many managers are stuck in thinking that their employees need to be in their offices to be fully productive.

Short-term 11

Short-term How To Human Resources Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Ever since Teresa Amabile first emphasized this idea, meta-analytic studies have confirmed the intuitive idea that assigning people to projects they love unleashes their creative potential. In contrast, extrinsic rewards, such as financial incentives , tend to inhibit people’s creativity.

Creativity 8

Creativity Incubator Motivation Innovation 8

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. Another problem that makes people skills hard to acquire is that the learning isn’t well supported by books, videos and courses. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills.

Skills 104

Skills Construction Goleman Emotional Intelligence 104

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 11, 2011

ABOUT Contact Us Create-Learning.com Get Connected Facebook LinkedIn RSS Feed Log in Join and Receive 9 Team-Building & Leadership Activities:That work and allow people to learn from the experience. Today is the day I blocked out to brain-storm and chalk work (I have a chalk-board in my office ) the content for this project.

Team Building 83

Team Building Creativity Conference Learning-by-Doing 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Creative new ideas generated. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Forecast accuracy, compared to actual results.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Speed, accuracy and efficiency of project fulfillment. Creative new ideas generated. Team the project. He guides companies through growth strategies, visioning, strategic planning, executive leadership development, Futurism and Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. Productivity gained.

Budgeting 50

Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Truly innovative companies avoid giving people job descriptions, or they find creative ways of encouraging them to join multiple projects. None of them involve idea-generation schemes. Rather, they are all about translating ideas into action. Have you noticed a key theme that links these three principles?

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2008

Blamestorming: Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible. Used generally to describe projects that have no more life in them but refuse to die. That disk conversion project has been circling the drain for years." Similar to the more common "It's not my job."

Reference 120

Reference Bond Project Stress 120

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They have no problem generating ideas, including some that are potentially useful and novel. Furthermore, they are also generally able to access creative ideas generated by others. Where they fail, however, is at turning those ideas into actual innovations.

Creativity 8

Creativity Team Kaizen Innovation 8