This document discusses leadership and innovation in the 21st century. It covers the profound changes occurring across technology, the workforce, and customers. Leaders must embrace and value innovation for it to succeed in an organization. The document promotes human-centered goals, focusing on team climate, and nurturing positive inner work life to support creativity and innovation. It provides tools and strategies for space makers and risk takers to design thinking, address problems collaboratively, and learn from failures.
4. How are you checking in today?
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5. We are facing profound changes in every sector
• Rise of Mobile
• Cloud platforms
and services
• Open source
• Machine Learning
• AI
• Automation
• Internet of Things
Technology
• Multiple
generations
• Culture of
entrepreneurship
• Purpose driven
economy
• Competition for
talent
• Virtual staff
Workforce
• Expectations
focused on speed,
convenienceand
personalization
• Technologydriving
new experiences
Customers
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Communication
Sharing thoughts,
questions, ideas, &
solutions
C
Collaboration
Working together to
reach a goal, putting
talent, expertise, &
smarts to work.
C
CriticalThinking
Looking at problems in a
new way and linking
learning across subjects
& disciplines
C
Creativity
Trying new approaches to
get things done equals
innovation & invention
21st Century Skills
10. It (innovation) always starts and ends with
leadership. If leaders aren’t understanding,
embracing, and valuing innovation, why
would anybody else in the organization?
-Sarah Patterson, ExecutiveVicePresident and Chief OperatingOfficer,
VirginiaMason Medical Center
19. • We need to increase app downloads!
• We need to generate $10M in revenue
• Make our marketing emails better
• Design an onboardingmodule
• We need a leadership class
Are you inspired yet?
27. Psychological Safety
• When someonemakes a mistake in this team, it is often held against
him or her (R)
• In this team, it is easy to discuss difficult issues and problems.
• In this team, people are sometimes rejected for beingdifferent (R)
• It is completely safe to take a risk on this team.
• It is difficult to ask other members of this team for help (R)
• Membersof this team value and respect each others' contributions.
31. So you want to be a Spacemaker…
Human-Centered Goals Sweat the Small StuffTeam Climate
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33. Of all the things that can boost emotions,
motivation, and perceptions during a
workday, the single most important is
making progress in meaningful work.
- Teresa Amabile “The Power of Small Wins”, HBR
34. Catalysts
Setting clear goals
Allowing autonomy
Allowing ideas to flow
Learning from problems and successes
Helping with the work
Providing resources
Providing sufficient time
35. Positive inner work life not only makesemployeesfeel happy and engaged in their
work, it leads to better performance including higher creativity and productivity.
36. Supporting Positive Inner Work Life
Nourishers
• Respect
• Recognition
• Encouragement
• Emotional support
• Affiliation
Toxins
• Disrespect
• Discouragement
• Disregard for emotions
37. Activity
Reflect on your week so far and map out each of the moments where
you’ve received or felt a “Nourisher”, as well as experienced any “toxins”
Have you provided any nourishersor toxins to others this week?