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Generate innovative thinking and creativity
This topic focuses on fostering innovative thinking and creativity. It involves identifying and analyzing trends influencing an organization's current and future thinking. Techniques and tools are employed to generate ideas and facilitate creative thinking. Creative thinking techniques are introduced and promoted. Extensive research is conducted to understand the conditions for innovation and factors influencing innovative thinking and creativity, including the study of innovation drivers and enablers.
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Models of innovation and creative thinking
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Reviewing innovations and generating new ideas
15:31
Trends and industry context
04:35
Generating ideas and motivating your team
04:04
Lead innovative practices
This topic focuses on leading innovative practices. It includes assessing one's leadership style to ensure it encourages innovation, refining practices supporting innovation, promoting sustainable innovative activities, facilitating knowledge transfer among stakeholders, and managing risks associated with innovation.
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Defining leadership & leadership styles
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Adaptive leadership & knowledge promotion
03:00
Support a culture of innovation
This topic focuses on nurturing a culture of innovation within an organization. It involves identifying, introducing, and promoting innovative practices, processes, and products, aligning them with organizational needs. It establishes methods to capture and share innovative ideas, encourages team communication and development for innovation, provides necessary resources, applies strategies to foster an innovation-friendly workplace culture, and implements systems and processes that support innovation.
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Generate and support a culture of innovation
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Sustain innovative thinking and practice
This topic focuses on sustaining innovative thinking and practices within an organisation. It involves developing strategies to integrate innovation into organisational activities, monitoring processes to ensure awareness of contributions, identifying and mitigating potential barriers and risks, analysing innovation performance for improvement, seeking feedback from stakeholders, and making necessary changes to enhance innovative thinking and practices based on feedback received.
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Sustaining innovative practices
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BSBSTR801 Lead innovative thinking and practice
About Lesson

To promote and foster innovation in an organisation, several key strategies and practices can be employed:

  1. Develop a Strategic Plan: Creating a strategic plan that prioritises innovation as a critical business process is essential. This plan defines the direction of the business and outlines strategies for achieving innovation goals, aligning them with the overall objectives.

  2. Encourage Employee Involvement: To introduce innovative ideas, it’s crucial to encourage employees to participate actively. This can be achieved through various means such as holding innovation-focused meetings, providing dedicated rooms for brainstorming, and implementing processes for assessing and evaluating new ideas.

  3. Capture and Share Ideas: Methods for capturing and sharing innovative ideas include brainstorming, consultation workshops, and using tools like feedback forms and templates. Building innovation skills is vital, involving techniques like networking, observing, questioning, experimenting, generating ideas, and reflection.

  4. Effective Communication: Communication is key in promoting innovation. It involves being transparent in communication, organising structured meetings, using technology to gather and share information, and having an open-door policy that encourages open communication, feedback, and discussion.

  5. Supporting Team Members: Managers play a vital role in supporting team members. They should clarify policies and procedures, help with problem-solving, provide encouragement and constructive feedback, and allocate mentors or coaches if needed. Positive reinforcement, such as praise and rewards, can also be employed.

  6. Cultivate a Positive Workplace Culture: Fostering a workplace culture that encourages innovation involves providing challenging and interesting work, promoting autonomy, allowing for risk-taking, fostering trust and openness, and providing creative thinking time. A positive workplace culture should exhibit traits like cooperation, respect, flexibility, and an emphasis on well-being.

  7. Use Resources for Innovation: Leaders should identify and assess relevant resources to enhance innovative processes. This includes aligning innovation with the organisation’s strategic plans, having innovation policies and procedures, and investing in training, technology, and relevant personnel.

  8. Mechanisms to Support Innovation: Mechanisms at the system and process level are essential. A strategic plan with innovation as an objective, an innovation strategy, a change management strategy, and communication mechanisms that foster innovation should be in place. Risk management strategies are also crucial to address potential risks associated with innovative approaches.

  9. Research Innovative Workspace Environments: Innovative workspace environments, such as Amazon’s workspace spheres, can benefit employees by providing a unique and inspiring setting for work. Research other innovative workspaces and highlight how their physical environments support innovation.

  10. Evaluate Well-being at Work: Assess how personal environments impact well-being and explore the concept of a healthy workplace. Consider how a positive and innovative organization contributes to employee well-being.

  11. Analyze Working Conditions: Examine the working conditions at a company you’d like to work for. List these conditions and highlight those that contribute to a positive and innovative organizational culture.

By implementing these strategies and practices, an organisation can create a culture that not only promotes innovation but also supports the well-being and professional development of its employees, leading to long-term success.

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