Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Having the right people with the right skills work on a project can allow more experimentation and speed up the process. A few people working together on critical issues that have the skills needed and ability to work quickly is far more effective. Gathering information and different perspectives may actually inhibit innovation.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Eberhardt: Honest, purposeful, and respectful communication is one of the most effective leadership skills, yet CEOs who promote a culture of candor are still uncommon in business today. Guest post by Nancy K.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Brainstorming requires skill and experience both to do - and especially - to facilitate. Brainstorming sessions can be used for more than just generating ideas. BOTTOMLINE: Brainstorming is just one of many idea-generating techniques that make a company creative. Follow the rules, or don't call it brainstorming.

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LDRLB

JULY 17, 2012

Christensen calls these attributes “discovery skills” which are all focused on the front-end of the innovation process related to identifying new opportunities. Leaders who want to make a significant difference for themselves and their organizations need to embrace new skills in today’s increasingly disruptive competitive environment.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 6, 2021

The task, which required them to generate new ideas for increasing donations to the chosen charity saw each participant motivated by the prospect of winning $50 via a lottery that is chosen from each idea that the participants came up with. Mistaken perceptions.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

How do these different modes of thinking affect team dynamics, process flows, idea generation and problem-solving approaches? • Books Leadership Memes Skills Success Work life' How do they contribute to desired outcomes, and where are there gaps in our thinking? • Related articles. People Reading. Team Leadership.

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

This skill of listening can be a challenge for some teams, but when you set the example and create a culture of listening to various opinions, ideas and feedback you give your team a forum to feel comfortable expressing their ideas. Solid communication starts by listening. Set Goals.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Sandy Greene, Principal of Creative at Intuitive Company (IC), believes that integrating high level leaders and entry level employees will lead to increased productivity, idea generation and the formation of working relationships. Sandy and his team believe that change is a natural and necessary part of growing a business.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 27, 2014

That means our experiences around leadership, control, problem solving, idea-generation, diversity etc. What opportunities might I provide now that will help my children develop 21st Century leadership skill? are, almost always passed along and absorbed. In what way can I champion a positive and collaborative leadership model?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 20, 2012

That means our experiences around leadership, control, problem solving, idea-generation, diversity etc. What opportunities might I provide now that will help my children develop 21 st Century leadership skill? are, almost always passed along and absorbed. In what way can I champion a positive and collaborative leadership model?

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Management Excellence

MARCH 9, 2011

This Management Excellence Toolkit Series will help you recognize the challenges and pitfalls of individual and group decision-making and offer ideas on improving performance for you and your co-workers.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. shared mission.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. shared mission.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Organizations need to have dozens, maybe hundreds, of individual experts, fully capable of idea generation and innovative thought. Beta leaders then need to sort through the ideas, figure out how they fit together, and then recombine them so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

Empower people to expand their skill sets based on their individual needs, rather than on a prescribed syllabus Encourage people to confront and solve problems together, working collaboratively on the organization’s. shared mission.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is still common for most managers to refer to people skills as “soft skills,” because they aren’t specifically about the business of the organization. People skills are “hard” skills because in almost every job, they’re crucial to workplace performance. This turns out to be harder than learning a brand new skill.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2015

A pioneer who has spoken about, written about, and taught the skills to help buyers buy, she is the author of the acclaimed New York Times Business Bestseller Selling with Integrity and Dirty Little Secrets : Why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it. How I Create Boredom and Listen to Myself.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

That can be a big source of frustration, and stop the idea generation your team needs in order to succeed. You can work with Leigh Thompson and her colleagues in the Kellogg programs to improve your executive skills throughout the year. How bad can it get? Increase the size of the group, and the problem only gets worse.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

The problem for most people is realizing that even the most silly or outrageous idea they come up with could in fact work. Generating ideas – useful ideas – is a skill, and, like any other skill, it can be learned. Get an outsider’s opinion. Wear a silly hat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2010

These days, you're as likely to see "innovative" on any given job description as you are to see "strong communication skills" or "team player." Having ideas is only part of what makes an effective innovator. Detecting these skills in isolation is a good sign, but it says little about a candidate's innovation capability.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Our past research highlights the promise of this trend: In the case of a major baby products firm, for example, the best user-generated ideas identified were even more innovative and provided better benefits to the consumer than the best ideas generated by the firm’s designers.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

His original business, GetAGreatBoss.com , lets great managers showcase their skills to attract talent and boost their own careers by conducting a 360 review of the manager by his or her staff, and if the results are favorable, he links the results to job ads that the boss is trying to fill, making these job ads far more appealing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Idea generation will improve as people problem-solve together at meals. What''s also concerning is that, based on interviews DiTomaso conducted, people are convinced that skills and hard work are the primary reasons they landed good jobs — only 14% noted that they received help from others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

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. At the same time, these companies went beyond simply helping their employees to improve their skills.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

In his book Mindfulness for Creativity , Danny Penman argues that mindfulness meditation and other mindfulness practices enhance three essential skills necessary for creative problem solving. In other words, meditation opens your mind to new ideas. First, mindfulness switches on divergent thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

How to build this critical skill. Innovation involves two stages—the generation of new ideas and the implementation of the ideas. Creativity and the second stage of innovation require different individual skills and team structures and processes. You and Your Team. Thinking Creatively.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Backing up this claim will take significant investment to build the skills they need. The bars reflect how two teams of managers, a senior team and a junior team, rank this firm on the five stages in the innovation process – idea generation, selection, and implementation, as well as sustaining innovations and diffusing them.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A part of the employee’s responsibilities could involve idea generation or problem-solving, where employees can be encouraged to find new ways to approach a problem. Employees do not always come equipped with the entire set of skills necessary to create a strong, self-defined presence at work.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2015

I t doesn’t matter what your expertise is; writing skills are necessary for all professionals who aim towards more productive careers. Portent’s Content Idea Generator. This is another tool that can generate cool titles for you. You want to distinguish yourself as a leader in your organization?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

That opened the creative floodgates and, over the next few hours, Basadur says, there were hundreds of ideas generated for possible refreshment bars — with the team eventually converging around a theme of finding refreshment at the seacoast. And out of that came a coastal-blue and white striped bar named (what else?)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For any subject matter, creative performance is a function not just of potential, thinking skills, and motivation, but also of expertise. On the one hand, it is virtually impossible to come up with ideas that are completely original, which is why Einstein said that “the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

While office time is important, both for formal meetings and for those informal conversations that are so important for idea generation and team camaraderie, the fact is that most knowledge workers could get by with doing something on the order of 30% of their work from home (or other locations) and at non-traditional work times.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2016

This requires a much more logical, analytical, organized, and sequential style, and hence personality type, compared to the original idea generation and its need for vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

In an article in the December Atlantic , Don Peck described Knack’s success in identifying successful idea generators at Royal Dutch Shell, and depicted such game-based assessments as part of a revolution in people analytics that would transform hiring over the next decade. It was easy to see some of the things the game was measuring.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The problem with the coaching profession is that as a general rule it is a widely held belief (at least by coaches) that a good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching in order to provide quality business coaching services. It’s just that simple.

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