Everyone has heard this term, yet few leaders have a solid understanding of what it means to have an innovative mindset and to also identify which of your team members have it, too.
Here’s a case in point: We recently worked with a senior leader whose team was engaged with an outside group that does strategy consulting.
He was advised by this group of consultants that he and his team needed to “think outside the box.”
When the executive called to arrange a coaching engagement with rd&partners, he admitted he was perplexed and did not fully understand what these strategy consultants meant in practical terms.
This is very common, as cute clichés are often tossed around without provision for real assistance on a practical and actionable level.
To assist this executive leader and his team, we needed to help him understand some fundamentals about innovation.
From our experience of working with hundreds of executives, we have determined the following three basic elements of innovation that leaders need to understand.
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Using reliable research results in order to formulate and choose employee assessment methods is known as evidence-based management – something every leader should strive for.
In troubled economic times like these, most organizations are engaged in some form or “belt-tightening,” cutting down on capital expenditures, laying off workers or freezing salaries, even cutting back on office supplies, travel, or training.
