Build Positive Culture

Innovators are often creative people. But to take a clever idea and actually make it a marketable product requires a bit more than mere invention. In this course, join thought leader and innovation expert Jeff Dyer as he shares his insights on developing the key skills that lead to innovative capabilities, and explains how to apply those skills to accomplish repeated innovation. Jeff discusses behaviors and techniques that can help you generate creative ideas, as well as a method for bringing your ideas to the marketplace.

No company can survive without innovation. Large or small, new or old, for profit or nonprofit, all organizations need to keep morphing to succeed. But how do you nurture nonstop innovation? Strategy experts Anil Gupta and Haiyan Wang outline the core logic of innovation and show how leaders at many companies and nonprofits—including Apple, Amazon, Google and Khan Academy—nurture innovation without losing control. They outline the multiple ways—including design thinking, lean startup, and collaborative innovation—in which any organization can innovate. They also show how companies can change the rules of the game by dramatically redefining the target customer, rethinking the value proposition for the customer, and/or reengineering the value chain. And, they discuss the why and how of digital transformation and social innovation. Use these strategies to uncover new pathways to innovation at your organization.

Toxic workplaces cost organizations money in the form of lost productivity, poor employee health, and, in extreme cases, lawsuits. HR consultant Catherine Mattice Zundel explains how companies that invest in a positive workplace can see an amazing return on their investment. If you have a negative workplace, you can turn it around by creating a vision for change—and a positive culture committee to help you deliver a new culture to your workforce. Catherine provides insight into conducting surveys and updating your performance management system, and offers tools such as a sample strategic plan and an exercise for creating core values.