Innovation Blog
The Why of an Innovation Factory
The What of your Asset Portfolio
The How In the Empathetic Arts
Approachability Menu (IP)
Approachability is an advantage. Making coaching easy is an advantage. This tool minimizes the effort to manage expectations, manage perceptions, and share helpful feedback across three communication channels.
What Can Business Learn From Dance
Everything you learn on the dance floor is valuable off the dance floor - especially on an innovation team. Hygiene, attentiveness, self-awareness, trust, mechanics, style, mistakes, gentleness, community, diversity, interchangeability, and elasticity. The learning never stops. Leaders, meet your partner where they are!
Approachability Menu
Don’t rely on HR to define and govern feedback. Own it. Conduct it yourself. Be approachable. Groom it in others. Isolate feedback into three communication channels: email etiquette, meeting etiquette, and deliverable contribution. Neutralize personality conflict. Ask and negotiate “What do you want me to do differently?”
Improve Your Culture’s Speed
Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your speed? Consider trust, ambiguity, interruptions, fatigue, burnout, bottlenecks, egos, hero mentality, simplicity, complexity, silos, bureaucracy, meeting gridlock, and email overload. Fix your culture. Fix your Speed.
Project Plan
Use Five Verbs to pace, synchronize, and assign building your project’s Asset Portfolio.
Customer Experience Hierarchy
High-level and detailed names of how your customer experiences your products and services, in their language and through their lens.
Improve Your Culture’s Elasticity
Which of your culture traits can you trace to impacting your elasticity and resilience? Consider idle work, idle workers, a balanced innovation pipeline, spontaneous alternatives for stakeholders, and if you blame a hiring decision. Fix your methodology. Fix your elasticity.