Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations

Innovative leaders are not necessarily technical experts or inherently creative. Instead, they have the skill to foster innovation in others, creating informal and formal systems that invite, support, and reward innovation. Innovative managers can tap into their employees' creative processes and promote ownership of the innovation at every step.

Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations helps answer how management and innovation work together by helping managers address the paradox of building strong accountability while inspiring risk-taking and innovation. The impact of this real-time assessment is often unexpected and helps managers strive to create an order in which their teams can operate and succeed.

The Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations assessment presents participants with 30 statements regarding current management practices in developing high-performing employees. In scoring the assessment, participants determine their overall performance management score.

In addition, participants create a self-profile showing a score for each of the five conversations. Feedback forms submitted by peers provide the data to create a second – or "feedback" – profile. Then, to prepare for a meeting with employees, participants complete worksheets on each of the five conversations.

By the end of this workshop, participants will do the following:

• Understand the importance of management and innovation
• Prepare for the 5 Key Conversations by anticipating the concerns employees will want to have addressed
• Practice the action steps necessary for meaningful conversations about innovation

Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations may be used to:

• Establish a new approach to building innovation in an organization.
• Provide basic skills training in developing creativity and innovation in individuals and teams.
• Complement existing leadership development techniques being used in an organization.

Facilitator Guide

Order one guide per trainer, The Facilitator Guide includes background information, administrative guidelines, a step-by-step workshop outline, and sample participant materials. Facilitator materials will be available as a digital download link in your order confirmation.

Paper Assessment 5-Pack

Order one pack for up to five participants. The Paper Assessment is ideal for facilitators who prefer to oversee the scoring and administration of the assessment. It provides pressure-sensitive forms for manual scoring.

QuickStart Train-the-Trainer (QST)

QST is a convenient, one-hour virtual coaching session for first-time facilitators of this product. You'll receive personalized, one-on-one coaching with a subject matter expert who will get you up to speed quickly and accurately so you can confidently step into the onsite. We'll answer all your questions about the facilitation of the product. And you can add additional coaching hours as needed. Your coaching session can be provided by telephone or video call at a time of your choosing.

Facilitators will also receive an HRDQ Certificate of Completion for completing the QuickStart session.

Jocelyn Kung is an organization development consultant who has worked with top executives across industries around the world throughout her 30-year career. Ms. Kung has been a Management Center Europe faculty member and served on the Girls for a Change board. Ms. Kung has a BS in business administration from the University of San Francisco and an MBA from Golden Gate University.

Marianne Minor is a licensed clinical social worker, management consultant, and author. For over 30 years, she worked in human resources and management development for General Electric, PG&E, and IBM.