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Influencing Creativity and Innovation

Persuasive Powerhouse

So what is your role in influencing creativity and innovation in others? We know it isn’t enough to simply add creativity to a list of values your organization espouses or to bring in consultants who get staff keyed up about innovating. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Leading with Trust

Great Leadership By Dan

As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. I call investing in both professional and personal growth "whole person" development.

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A New Model For Cooperation, Values, and Employee Motivation

The Idolbuster

In 1943 Abraham Maslow clearly explained our hierarchy of needs includes being respected, accepted or valued by others. In August 2012 he established The Ethics of Success Corporation to help companies and individuals create and sustain positive change. People need purpose, especially at work.

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Improve and Sustain Your Work Relationships Now

Persuasive Powerhouse

Reeve chose to dedicate the rest of his life to being a positive force, raising funds and awareness for spinal cord injuries. Yet only a few short months after his accident, he was appearing on television and telling the world what a lucky many he was.

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Ten little “ings” that improve your leadership

Persuasive Powerhouse

Creativity and innovation depend on it! Supporting growth and development will positively affect the goals your organization is attempting to achieve. To be conscious of integrating “ings” in our work fosters a very positive environment. Conversing in an open way that allows all options and possibilities to unfold.

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

Persuasive Powerhouse

I was young and had a lot at stake in my position – I was the major breadwinner in my family and felt the weight of the responsibility to provide for my young children. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). How have you been responsible?

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Giving Away Your Gifts

Persuasive Powerhouse

In a world devoid of positive feedback, you can make a difference. When you have the gift of clarity, you must speak up so that others can also see in order to act. What is clear to you that others have not yet realized? Gratefulness , when personally cultivated by you, is a gift that your followers need.

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