Before I share the last tenent with you today, I think you should know that I’ve really enjoyed the time we’ve spent together. I’ve seen you take risks, watched your organizations support you while you ventured out of your comfort zone, and cheered you on while you Continue Reading →
When you give a seasoned professional permission to go wild… they may just take you up on it.
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By Maureen Jann
This week is ASTD International Conference and Expo 2012 and for me it’s been a trying trip. With a trip the emergency room and a a bit of food poisoning, Denver and I aren’t exactly getting along. I’m happy to say that that wasn’t the case for everyone! My colleagues are on [...]
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There’s a misconception about innovation that I’d like to address. I was having a conversation with my friend Martin about innovation. I asked him what he thought about his role in the innovation process and he said that he has no role at all. He believes that he’s not high enough on the corporate ladder to worry about innovation nor does he have the proper “wiring” to come up with big ideas. I believe his exact words were, “I’m not Steve Jobs.”
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Sam Herring, co-founder and CEO of Intrepid Learning states in his article, Transforming the Workplace: Critical Skills and Learning Methods for the Successful 21st Century Worker, “We need leaders and employees with foresight who can identify new opportunities, design creative solutions, and bring them to market. Simply put, we need innovation workers, not just knowledge workers.”
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It’s hard to come up with game-changing ideas when you’re juggling a project deadline, taking your kids to basketball practice, and deciding what’s for dinner. Maybe that’s why I find the time spent in my morning shower or waiting for my bus so valuable. They are some of the few moments I have during the day when I can just… think.
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You’re likely questioning whether you have the resources to keep an employee from actually doing their job for a full week when you’re used to having them up and running a day after they walk in the door. But we discovered that by making the time and resource commitment up front, we were able to head off issues that could become more serious further down the road.
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I was in the checkout line at the grocery store the other day when I met Henry. Henry was going on and on about his idea that was going to make him famous! He was quite the talker because he told everyone in my line and the line next to ours about it.
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In part 1 of our blog series, we talked about why we created the video challenge; in part 2, we talked about how we made it happen. Now we’re here to explain what the video challenge yielded: what were quantitative and qualitative results?
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