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Reflections to Prepare for a Successful 2022

By Ron Price, TCL Founder

As you begin the New Year and consider the possibility that a new year offers, this is a great opportunity to take some time to reflect on your influence in both your career and your personal life. Reflection can be a powerful tool in guiding your direction and intention for the year. Here are a few aspects to consider and questions to ask yourself:

Your influence grows (or decreases) based on three dimensions: character, expertise, position.

Your character is what others observe about how you govern yourself and what they experience or notice in how you relate to others.

5 Ways People Managers Can Become Innovation Champions

Dr. Evans Baiya, Hr.com, November 2021

How to help everyone find their role in creating innovation

Does this innovation challenge sound familiar? Your team leaders and managers acknowledge the importance of innovation and even sing its praises—but if you ask them how they routinely champion innovation within their teams, you might get crickets.

The problem is that most people managers, while they recognize the need for innovation initiatives, don’t engage in these initiatives themselves. Innovation isn’t their job; their main concern is ensuring employees get the necessary day-to-day work done. People managers are good at directing and growing what already exists but often struggle to guide their teams to new ways of thinking and creating.Read More

Your Company is One Disruption Away From Becoming Irrelevant

Dr. Evans Baiya, Fast Company, November 2021

Your company is one disruption away from becoming irrelevant. A few years ago, I spoke at a conference where I told the leaders in attendance this exact statement.

It struck a chord with one attendee: the chief innovation officer of the Great NW + Pacific BBB. He reached out to me to talk about his goals to move his regional Better Business Bureau forward, and we created an innovation academy designed to inspire innovation across every department—the ultimate goal was to jumpstart a culture of innovation. Fast forward 2 years, and 50 employees have graduated from the in-house training, innovation efforts have increased across departments, and the organization continues to report cost savings as departments find more efficient ways to work. Read More

Is Data Hindering Your Innovation Efforts?

Dr. Evans Baiya, InnovationManagement.se, November 2021

Five Data Missteps That Paralyze Innovation

Data can be a powerful enabler for innovation, but when used incorrectly, it can be a paralyzing force. It’s a critical component in measuring and understanding the need for innovation—if you cannot measure something, you cannot improve it. Whether you collect data based on historical perspectives or through experiments, it can bring the insights needed for truly great innovations.

How to Break the 5 Habits That Hurt Ideation

Dr. Evans Baiya, InnovationManagement.se, October 2021

Many companies find it hard to prioritize ideation. Here are five ways to break the pattern and gather a wealth of ideas for your organization.

In today’s rapidly changing world, it’s easy to think that most companies are innovation factories—full of ideas for new products, services, and processes. They need to be, right? Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Most organizations only innovate when they are forced to do so. Many still rely on old knowledge or even guesswork to face challenges that arise. Read More

Prepare Employees to Look to the Future

By Dr. Evans Baiya

Without imagination, innovation stalls in the present. Futuristic thinking is a critical skill for everyone—business owners, leaders, veteran team members, and new hires alike. Without it, teams can’t imagine what the organization will look like in five, 10, or 20 years. They can’t imagine their future customers, sources of revenue, competitors, or even what it will be like to work at the organization.

These questions take imagination, and without the skills to answer them, an organization’s strategy and ability to innovate are at risk. As a skill, futuristic thinking requires the ability to see the big picture, roleplay long-term plans, make accurate predictions of possible outcomes, and determine the direction to take to fulfill those outcomes. If an organization can’t think beyond the present, taking advantage of changing landscapes in the market becomes much harder.

Top 5 Traits of Successful Innovators

Dr. Evans Baiya, AllBusiness.com, July 2021

Steve Jobs once said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” He was certainly referring to leading in terms of industry: if your company is innovating, it will generally lead the pack. But I think he was also referencing positional titles in the workplace. If you are a leader, you are expected to innovate. And if you are an innovator, you have the potential to be a leader.

But whether you have a leadership title or not, innovation begins with a position—a mental position. From this starting point, continual innovation is sustained by a set of mindsets: convictions of change, growth, and value.Read More

Exclusive interview with Dr. Jeremy Graves, Director, Boise State University

Dr. Jeremy Graves, Hr.com, July 2021

‘Engaging A Multigenerational Workforce Is Not An Easy Task’

Do you think a multigenerational workforce will shape the workplace of the future? How can you successfully attract, hire and retain the different generations?

In an exclusive interaction with HR.com, Dr. Jeremy Graves, an intergenerational culture strategist and Director of Professional and Continuing Education, Boise State University, talks about managing the multigenerational workforce today, the importance of multi-generational cross-mentoring programs, generational gaps that should be addressed and much more.Read More

Allow Your Wild & Wonderful Wants to Bloom

A Method to Uncover What You Want

By Jalene Case

What do you want? This question is simple on the surface but the answers to it can sculpt your life, define your goals, and bring a myriad of emotions from frustration to fulfillment. By declaring what you want, you’re also deciding what you don’t want, and drawing a blueprint from which to build your goals. Consider the definition of want: to feel a need or a desire for; wish for. When was the last time you thought about what you truly wanted, desired, wished for?

6 Steps to Reinvent Your Future

By Dr. Evans Baiya

If there was ever a time to contemplate a reinvention, it’s now. The last year and a half has been challenging for a variety of reasons, and we’ve all collectively experienced it—although in different ways. If you want your future to be different, reinvention is the answer. If you want to find solutions to many of the issues that have recently been uncovered and make the change that you want, this is an excellent time to begin.

Here are the six steps to reinventing your future, in a way that is both achievable and sustainable.

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