Ignite Newsletter: Creating an innovative work culture
Four Ways Leaders Can Support Innovation
Data from a soon-to-be released Blanchard® survey identifies the following factors as being most responsible for slowing or dampening innovation in today’s organizations:
Workload pressure
Poor leadership support for innovation
Fear of failure
Risk-averse culture
In looking at some of the ways leaders can support an innovative culture, Dr. Jay Campbell points to four focus areas.
Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal shares a framework for developing resilience from her new book. When our lives are filled with challenges, complexity, and change, using these practices will help us flourish.
“We wanted to provide training in skills such as listening, setting goals, and coaching so our leaders would have the fundamentals they needed to lead effectively,” says Brian O’Neill, leadership development advisor for AMH.
Hire smart people, train them properly, then get out of their way
Empowering individual contributors to run their own race is unfamiliar to many leaders. In this article for Chief Learning Officer, Ken Blanchard shares how to lead others so they feel safe, seen, trusted, and acknowledged.
3 Keys to Becoming a Lifetime Employer for a New Generation of Workers
“People are always shocked when they hear me say that, at 26, I’ve found the company where I want to work for the rest of my life,” says Ellie Haskins, a community and experience facilitator.
Drivers Ed for Innovation: Finding the Gas and Brake Pedals
The ability to innovate is a matter of business survival. In this webinar, chief product officer Dr. Jay Campbell walks participants through the results of Blanchard’s Innovation Beliefs, Practices, and Realities Survey.
Are you a professional coach looking to expand your leadership coaching toolbox? This 15-week, 40 CCEU credit course teaches time-tested Blanchard frameworks and models and how to use them to increase your coaching effectiveness.
Join peers from 70+ countries around the world participating in Blanchard’s 5th Annual Trends Survey. By completing this survey, you will receive a free copy of the study when it is published later this year and be invited to participate in a webcast sharing the results on December 13.
