Training Resources for Leading Innovation
If you’ve completed the training Leading Innovation, then welcome to this resource page. Everything on here supports what you discovered and learnt on the training. If you’ve found this page without doing the training, feel free to browse.
Video Clips
Great Talks?
The secret structure of great talks
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From Ted: From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. At TEDxEast, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action.
Introduction to Solution Focus
Simple animation.
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A light intro to what a Solution Focus is, good as a refresher on the basics.
Margaret Heffernan: Pecking order
Leadership, performance & hierarchy
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Frugal Innovation
Creative Problem Solving in the face of Extreme Limits
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“When external resources are scarce, you have to go within yourself to tap the most abundant resource, human ingenuity, and use that ingenuity to find clever ways to solve problems with limited resources.”
I think this will be very important in years to come as we see even more pressure on natural resources and changing economies.
From Ted: Navi Radjou has spent years studying “jugaad,” also known as frugal innovation. Pioneered by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who figured out how to get spectacular value from limited resources, the practice has now caught on globally. Peppering his talk with a wealth of examples of human ingenuity at work, Radjou also shares three principles for how we can all do more with less.
Reclaimed Innovation
Creative houses from reclaimed stuff.
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TED: In this funny and inspiring talk, Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he’s built in Texas using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own drive to make more with less.
Collective Creativity.
It’s not about being the boss.
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FROM TED: What’s the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius,” has studied some of the world’s most creative companies to come up with a set of tools and tactics to keep great ideas flowing — from everyone in the company, not just the designated “creatives.”
Emotional Spectrum
How are you managing pressure and change?
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Learn the difference between living above the line versus below the line and locate yourself across every area of your life.
Dan Pink on Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation: Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose
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Books
Drive by Daniel Pink
Articles by David Savage
COVID-19 Lockdown. Lessons Learned for your Organisation.
Bring the learnings from the lockdown in to your business.
Emerge stronger, wiser and better.
Ten principles for leading people through the COVID-19 crisis
COVID-19 has ramped-up the pressure on most of us, if not all of us in fundamental ways. This pressure is made up of a sudden change in our landscape, challenges to our systems and processes, disruption to our way of life, heighten emotions and most seriously, a threat to the health and wellbeing of so many people.
The Triple A Response Model
Please meet the ‘Triple A Model’, designed to help navigate sudden change.
Crayfish & Conflict
How a scuba diving emergency illustrates key principles of conflict resolution …
Lack lustre team performance: Ten questions to ask!
What are the signals of lack-lustre team performance, and what are the solutions? David Savage shares the questions he looks to get answered when starting to coach a new team.
Useful Links
Taking on Competition
Margaret Heffernan, National Radio Interview
What’s Wrong with This Picture: Kodak’s 30-year Slide into Bankruptcy
“As Eastman Kodak begins to adapt to the challenges of bankruptcy, David A. Glocker’s company, Isoflux, is expanding — thanks to technology he developed in Kodak’s research labs. He didn’t steal anything. In fact, before he founded Isoflux with Kodak’s blessing in 1993, Glocker approached his managers at the company and suggested they market the coating process he had developed.”
The 6 Questions That Lead To New Innovations
“Autodesk’s Innovation Genome Project tried to quantify what worked about the 1,000 greatest innovations of all time. With that data in hand, the company then turned to what needs innovation today: building with sustainable materials.”
Debunking the Eureka Moment: Why Creativity Is a Process, Not an Event
“In 1666, one of the most influential scientists in history was strolling through a garden when he was struck with a flash of creative brilliance that would change the world.”
For Innovation, Dodge the Prefrontal Police
“Quick—what can you do with Kleenex? Easy, blow your nose. But what can you do with Kleenex that no one has ever done before? That’s not so easy. Finally a bright idea pops up out of the blue—you could draw a face on it, put a string around the top and make it into a cute little Halloween ghost!”
How Apple Went from Underdog to Cult in Six Design and Innovation Strategies from the Early Days
“In 1982, Apple hired German-American industrial designer and inventor Hartmut Esslinger to overhaul the company’s design strategy. He created the Snow White design language, which would come to define Apple, and turned the Silicon Valley underdog not only into a global force of design and innovation, but also into a singular culture — an aesthetic cult, even. ”