Innovation

The team’s ability to generate and implement new ideas that drive improvement and value

What is Innovation?
The process of bringing about new ideas, methods, products, services, or solutions that have a significant positive impact and value.

Why is Innovation important?
In a complex world, only innovation enables teams to create and test ideas fast enough to survive.

Tips for improving Innovation in your team, based on ‘Design Thinking’ principles

Build empathy: get the whole team out to meet your users.
What’s really happening for them in their world? What pain points do they have? How is what you do helping and hindering this?
The goal is to deeply understand what’s happening for them, not to convince them how great you are!
Expand your expansive thinking: sharpen your ability to ask open questions and challenge each other through brainstorming and other ideation approaches. Make sure the team is able to use whiteboards and other tools to make this possible in a virtual setting.
Experiment: build the team’s ability to take small pieces of ideas and rapidly test them to get feedback.

Free resources on Innovation

Squadify Connects, nano podcast episodes for personal development with practical tips to build engagement and accelerate performance.

We Not Me, a popular podcast all about how humans connect to get stuff done together. Packed with great guests who lead teams and communities.

How can Squadify help?

Wouldn’t you like to know what your team members think about the innovation in the team? Explore a Squadify Accelerate Workshop – ‘an hour of team power’!
Use a full Squadify Team Tracker to understand this issue more deeply and then track and improve the conditions that will improve customer empathy, the generation of ideas and the ability to experiment rapidly.
If you’d like coaching to close this gap and accelerate your team, talk to us about the Squadify Power Bundle. Click the “Book a call” button for a no-strings chat.

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