Innovative leadership & leading strategic innovations needs training & development!Innovative leadership and
leading strategic innovations are sorely needed skill-sets in most organizations around the world. From IT to HR, in the executive suites or in middle managers' corner offices, on the shop floor and the engineering desks, we see professionals, specialists, analysts, management and board directors who are missing these essential competencies.
Where are today's strategic innovators, innovative leaders and producers of innovations like Ben Franklin, Madam Marie Curie, Thomas Edison or Nicholas Tesla, Thomas Jefferson and other social, industrial and political leaders? What types of problems, challenges and issues do our current business, governmental and non profit organizations need to innovate on?
Our organizational leaders could use training, development and education which empowers them to perform as many of the following tasks as possible:
- Recognize the significant differences between innovative leadership and traditional leadership styles;
- Describe which strategic insights, creative instincts and artistic flair will be needed by and demanded of the innovators in their enterprises;
- Assess, evaluate and develop the personal qualities of innovative leaders;
- Employ action-based, accelerated learning methods to help those leading strategic innovations to rapidly, totally and completely understand any new facts or subject matter;
- Adapt their cultures to accept and facilitate the acquisition of more innovative behaviors, traits and aptitudes;
- Encourage the process of developing and seeding innovative leaders throughout the organization;
- Learn how to rigorously practice and master the skills and discipline of innovative leadership;
- Apply the process, principles and policies of innovative leadership to every reality of your world.
Among the many other situations facing organizational executives, managers, professionals and knowledge workers, these five (5) challenges rank highly:
- Unravel today's complex economic and social realities;
- Create and add substantial amounts of new value;
- Develop products which satisfy or exceed consumer demands;
- Cultivate organic, sustainable and elastic systems which can nurture growth;
- Provide competitive services to help their organizations succeed globally.
One solution I came up with was to write a mini-paper about empowering the development of your own powerful personal portfolio of innovative behaviors, thinking patterns and aptitudes. The paper defines 19 different strategies you can use to encourage and energize new innovations and innovative leaders and innovators in your organization.
Take a moment to check it out - it's called:
Energizing Your Innovative Leadership Power!Labels: executive and management leadership development, innovative leadership, leading strategic innovations
