Boosting Innovation: How Leaders Can Create Innovative Teams
Successfully executed innovation can give your team or organization a great competitive advantage. This course helps leaders find, create, and nurture innovation on their teams with dozens of actionable ideas you can implement right now.
What you'll learn
Technology has leveled the playing field in many industries. What we can build seems to be limited only by our imagination, which makes innovation and creativity as valuable as ever. In this course, Boosting Innovation: How Leaders Can Create Innovative Teams, you will learn how you, as a leader, can harness your team’s creative potential to be more competitive and stay relevant amidst the rapidly changing landscape of business. First, you will learn how to identify mindset challenges that are impeding innovation and start thinking about innovation differently. Next, you will explore ideas on how to create an environment where innovation thrives and where it is a natural part of your team’s value proposition. Finally, you will discover some seemingly crazy strategies that could have a real impact on building a highly-innovative team. When you are finished with this course, you will have enough ideas, tips, suggestions, and permission to be the leader who inspires your team to innovative greatness.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- Giving People Space, Really 3m
- Supporting Team Members in Innovation 3m
- Prepare for Hard Work 2m
- Accountability Is Still Important 3m
- Envision a Pivot/Termination System 2m
- Focus on Good Leadership 2m
- Understanding the Source of Innovation 2m
- Focus on Ideas over Implementation 2m
- Brainstorm with Respect 3m
- Recognize Leader's Role in Innovation 2m
- Eliminate Urgency 4m
- Give Team Members Ownership of Ideas 4m
- Allow Mistakes 3m
- Focus on Confidence 4m
- Actionable Takeaways 1m
- Measure the Right Things 2m
- An Innovation Reward System 3m
- Innovation Activities 5m
- Innovation from Travel 5m
- Innovation Discussions 2m
- Innovation through Simulations 5m
- Innovation through Debriefing 4m
- Postmortems for Innovation 3m
- Cultivating Open Communication 3m
- Get Closer to Problems 3m
- Meet with Customers 3m
- Regularly Cross-Pollinate 2m
- Actively Listen for Problems 2m
- Innovation by Example 2m
- Encourage Open-Source 2m
- Open-source Patents 2m
- Identify Problems to Focus On 3m
- Actionable Takeaways 1m
About the author
Jason Alba has been a Pluralsight Author since 2012, specializing in soft skills and professional development. He started his IT career as an intern developing tools for a robust intranet. He transitioned to an IT manager at another company where his job included web development as well as other IT functions. After an acquisition Jason became VP and then general manager at a newly formed tech company. He founded and manages JibberJobber.com, a CRM for job seekers. Jason has authored three books.... more