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    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation

    Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
    Laura O'Reilly

    "I was impressed that the faculty members orchestrated different learning methods into something really cohesive."

    Laura O'Reilly
    Co-founder and Director , Hireup, Australia
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    Laura O'Reilly

    "I was impressed that the faculty members orchestrated different learning methods into something really cohesive."

    Laura O'Reilly
    Co-founder and Director , Hireup, Australia
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    What You Will Learn

    This hands-on program takes place in a unique learning space very different from a typical classroom. Here you will immerse yourself in the real-world process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination. You will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas—and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

    Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

    While this corporate innovation program emphasizes team collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer coaching that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset as you continue your leadership journey.

    Your Innovation Challenge

    During the program, you will work with a self-organized team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you fine-tune your skills. You'll have the opportunity to define an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, present it to your brain trust team, and obtain feedback that can help you develop an action plan for achieving your goals.

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    What You Will Learn

    This hands-on program takes place in a unique learning space very different from a typical classroom. Here you will immerse yourself in the real-world process of exploration, experimentation, failure, and examination. You will discover new ways to surface and develop ideas—and set the stage for ongoing innovation. As you dig into the characteristics of innovative organizations, you will learn what it takes to lead the changes that transform promising ideas into reality.

    Balancing Collaboration and Personal Reflection

    While this corporate innovation program emphasizes team collaboration, you also will engage in guided self-reflection and a unique approach to peer coaching that is designed to boost your creativity and expand your innovation mindset as you continue your leadership journey.

    Your Innovation Challenge

    During the program, you will work with a self-organized team of peers, known as a "brain trust," to spark new thinking on innovation and help you fine-tune your skills. You'll have the opportunity to define an innovation leadership challenge facing your organization, present it to your brain trust team, and obtain feedback that can help you develop an action plan for achieving your goals.

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    Understanding the realities of innovationUnderstanding the realities of innovation
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    • Exploring the differences that distinguish vision, innovation, and change
    • Considering innovation broadly as any new idea that can help your organization succeed
    • Recognizing that innovation is a mandate for everyone in every function
    • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
    • Growing contextual intelligence to compete and thrive in different environments
    Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovationDeveloping a leadership approach that fosters innovation
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    • Accepting the responsibility for driving innovation
    • Understanding the leader's role as social architect
    • Becoming a change agent and advocating for change at all levels of your organization
    • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
    • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
    • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation
    Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organizationInstilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization
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    • Creating more opportunities for productive collaboration
    • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more ideas
    • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
    • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
    • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure
    Creating structures that support innovation in your organizationCreating structures that support innovation in your organization
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    • Designing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
    • Introducing new rules of engagement
    • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
    • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
    • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation
    • Allowing multiple ideas to be combined rather than choosing one over the other
    Transforming innovative ideas into realityTransforming innovative ideas into reality
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    • Analyzing and managing the implications of a promising new idea
    • Leading the changes needed to execute an innovative idea for maximum impact
    • Overcoming obstacles to change
    • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation

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    Key Areas Dropdown down

    Understanding the realities of innovation

    • Exploring the differences that distinguish vision, innovation, and change
    • Considering innovation broadly as any new idea that can help your organization succeed
    • Recognizing that innovation is a mandate for everyone in every function
    • Identifying common practices that can stifle collaboration and innovation
    • Growing contextual intelligence to compete and thrive in different environments

    Developing a leadership approach that fosters innovation

    • Accepting the responsibility for driving innovation
    • Understanding the leader's role as social architect
    • Becoming a change agent and advocating for change at all levels of your organization
    • Embracing the often-messy process of collaborative innovation
    • Balancing the inherent tensions and paradoxes of leading innovation
    • Fulfilling three key leadership imperatives—managing yourself, your team, and your network—in ways that facilitate innovation

    Instilling habits that can unleash creative potential throughout your organization

    • Creating more opportunities for productive collaboration
    • Recognizing how diversity expands the range of possibilities and elicits more ideas
    • Fostering trust and a shared sense of purpose and values
    • Understanding and managing creative abrasion, creative agility, and creative resolution
    • Institutionalizing experimentation, risk-taking, and the tolerance for failure

    Creating structures that support innovation in your organization

    • Designing spaces that support collaborative problem solving
    • Introducing new rules of engagement
    • Developing an effective marketplace of new ideas
    • Identifying and overcoming obstacles to collaboration and innovation
    • Evolving decision-making processes to align with the nature of innovation
    • Allowing multiple ideas to be combined rather than choosing one over the other

    Transforming innovative ideas into reality

    • Analyzing and managing the implications of a promising new idea
    • Leading the changes needed to execute an innovative idea for maximum impact
    • Overcoming obstacles to change
    • Working with different constituencies in your organization to ensure successful implementation
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    Laura O'Reilly

    "I was impressed that the faculty members orchestrated different learning methods into something really cohesive."

    Laura O'Reilly
    Co-founder and Director , Hireup, Australia
    Read Her Story
    Apply
    Download Brochure
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    Laura O'Reilly

    "I was impressed that the faculty members orchestrated different learning methods into something really cohesive."

    Laura O'Reilly
    Co-founder and Director , Hireup, Australia
    Read Her Story
    Need Help? Contact Us:
    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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