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Effectively Lead The Charge To A Culture Of Innovation
Allowing Ideas To Safely Flourish
Take a moment to consider if your employees and team members are coming to you with new ideas and innovations.
To create a sense of security where employees will feel safe to share their ideas, tailor your training strategy to employees ' individual strengths. The employees will feel safe in the training environment and be more willing to take risks when sharing their ideas. From the training room, it can spread organically into day-to-day operations and the workplace culture.
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Allowing Ideas To Safely Flourish
Take a moment to consider if your employees and team members are coming to you with new ideas and innovations.
To create a sense of security where employees will feel safe to share their ideas, tailor your training strategy to employees ' individual strengths. The employees will feel safe in the training environment and be more willing to take risks when sharing their ideas. From the training room, it can spread organically into day-to-day operations and the workplace culture.
Increased Diversity
Companies with increased growth are 72% more likely to have high diversity in their organization.
Use Learning & Development (L&D) training to raise awareness about the current state of diversity and inclusion in your work environment.
Agility Breeds Sustainability
Up to 70% of trainees forget what they learn within 24 hours after training. However, it does not have to be the case for your employees.
An effective leader will implement and integrate an agile training infrastructure into their daily operations that can change quickly to keep up with the pace of innovation.
Grow As A Leader
To develop as an effective leader, recognize where there's room for improvement.
Training professionals will give you objective expertise and training strategies that can bring about real change to how you and your organization currently function.
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Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
Demographics And Leadership Destiny
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Diversity & Inclusion
There is a significant relationship between competitive profit gains and diversity.
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5 Lessons for Managing D&I
- Recognize the Shift in Global Understanding of D&I. Diverse thinkers come from a variety of different backgrounds.
- Build an Inclusive Environment. All people are encouraged to draw upon their unique experiences, perspectives and backgrounds to advance business goals.
- Use Multiple Practices and Measures. Have solutions in place to monitor and retain a talented and diverse workforce.
- Ensure Leaders Model Diversity and Inclusion. It sets the tone for the rest of the organization to follow suit.
Recognize the Connection Between Innovation and D&I. Diversity and inclusion increase innovation and reduce business risk.
Cognitive Diversity
The concept of cognitive diversity focuses on diversity of thinking and is composed of four dimensions:
- Perspectives. People represent situations in different ways
- Interpretations. Through diverse interpretations, teams can discover multiple resolutions.
- Heuristics. People resolve issues in different ways.
- Predictive models. Some analyze, and others look for a story. Both are useful for discovering workplace solutions.
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Benefits of a learning culture
During the last recession, companies that invested in their employees, in part by providing the training they needed to move forward in their careers, enjoyed profit gains of 26 percent, compared t...
When hiring, screen for learners
- Ask about passion projects. Learners tend to pursue something else outside work (training for a marathon, playing with a band, etc.)
- Focus on curiosity as much as hard skills. Bring up problems currently facing the team and see how the candidate responds.
- One of the most important things to a learning mindset is the ability to admit you don't know something. So be aware of how they approach the things they don't understand.
Learning as a company policy
This means explicitly defining ongoing learning as a core company value.
Empowering employees can mean providing the time or money to enable learning - in other words, offering learning opportunities as a job benefit like health insurance.
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