The 4 quadrants of innovation impact: where are you now?
When you think of innovation impact you must think about outcomes: the impact on the people you lead, and the impact on the business results you produce.
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Is your business ready to grow? Here are 5 critical tests to know
Growing your company can be an incredibly exciting experience. With so much at stake when expanding any business, it can be daunting – fortunately, there are five tests you can use as indicators of whether taking those next steps is right for both you and your company.
How to unlock the potential of a customer-centric strategy to accelerate business growth
While all organizations have essential components that can help them excel, an effective customer-centric strategy is key to unlocking their true potential. By focusing on the wants and needs of your customers, your business can create an environment of mutual value and find creative solutions to accelerate growth.
Strategy, vision, goals, and plans: What is the difference and which one do you need?
There are a lot of moving parts to any business. You have clients, you have staff, and you have products or services. It can be tough to keep everything organized and on track. In this article, we will discuss the difference between strategy, vision, goals, and plans, and how each one is relevant to your company.
Where is your company in the innovation spectrum?
From my experience, efforts to embed innovation in companies can be classified in a spectrum loosely defined by three categories. Which one are you on?
How to improve the effectiveness of your leadership style
You are not a leader unless you are being followed – sounds obvious, but it is not. One element is crucial if you want to lead effectively.
Four ways to effectively implement innovation in your company
Innovation is key to success in any industry. But how do you implement it effectively? Here are some practical tips and strategies for encouraging and implementing innovation in your company.
Designing quality outcomes as a risk minimization strategy
Our mental picture of the things we think about and how we imagine the world to be is highly dependent upon our lived experiences, hopes and expectations. But what does this have to do with quality and risk?
How to select the right team for your innovation initiatives
Selecting and upskilling individuals and teams to enable them to succeed in their roles is not an easy feat. Here are some thinking prompts to guide your efforts.
Three ways to foster psychological safety in the workplace
Great leaders strive to create teams that work well together and produce great results. But it takes more than just putting people together to achieve this. Leaders need to help shape the behaviors of team members to get the best results.
Shifting the dial: how to embed an innovation mindset in your teams
How do you embed in your teams the mindset required to truly shift the dial for your company? Here’s a three-layered strategic approach to its execution.
What is servant leadership and why should you care?
The concept of servant leadership can be clear in its definition but confusing in its application. Let’s look at how these terms fit together in a way that you can put into action.
Three steps to boost your confidence you can apply right now
Trust yourself. Back yourself. Believe in yourself. You have probably heard these or a version of them before, either from a well-intended friend or an inspirational Instagram quote. The problem is that this phrase, by itself, is not usable or actionable advice. From my perspective, this advice needs to be linked to actions (past or future) to be able to be useful.
How to link aspirational discontent to an improvement mindset
Today it seems there is always something more we could be doing, something extra to accomplish, one more step to take. Here is where the concept of aspirational discontent comes into the picture so we can use it to foster an improvement mindset.
Planning the change or changing the plan? Choose wisely.
Nothing is today exactly as it was yesterday, and nothing will be tomorrow exactly as it is today. This is true about businesses as well. When planning and executing a change is important to understand the elements of good change management practice, why those elements are needed, and how they can be applied to generate better outcomes.
Are your ideas fragile? Here’s how to strengthen them
Every idea needs to overcome two barriers to be executed. This is how you can give them a chance.
Is leadership really that big of a deal?
It can be difficult to appreciate leadership’s transformational impact. So, what is leadership and how does great leadership look like?
