Creating the Innovative Workplace

Creating a culture of innovation requires paying attention to several different variables. In this course, you'll hone your leadership skills by tackling several different topics. We'll consider tensions between short-term objectives and long-term innovations. You'll learn techniques for aligning key players and projects, balancing top-level objectives and mid-level knowledge and moving forward as a collective to make progress.

You'll also discover how successful leaders manage their personal networks, reviewing the network patterns of high performers and the traps of over- and under-connectedness. You'll learn how you can better manage conflict within your organization, and assess your own conflict-management style. You'll learn about conversations in the workplace and how to build and run high performance teams primed for innovation. Along the way you'll hear stories about building powerful workplace habits that help you manage change and innovation.

ACCELERATE YOUR SKILLS

• Apply actionable strategies to your workplace problems
• Balance short-term and long-term objectives and eliminate information asymmetry
• Maximize the effectiveness of your professional network and your social patterns
• Manage conflict to maximize potential
• Create high-performing teams that are poised to innovate