Building a Culture of Innovation for Hybrid and Virtual Teams

The modern workplace is here! For leaders like you whose team is co-located, remote or a combination, you’ve got to be ready to implement the next set of actions to build a culture in which innovation, creativity and collaboration can thrive regardless of any physical boundaries separating employees. Take charge and explore what’s possible for you in this course.

• Get familiar with the science connecting team dynamics and innovation
• Identify current drivers and barriers to innovation and their implications
• Enhance your leadership role in reimagining a new culture of innovation
• Develop an implementation plan for your team or organization

• Exploring the types of culture that lead to innovation
• Recognizing the factors that undermine or kill creativity
• Exploring the role of leaders in shaping the culture
• Leveraging social capital for innovation culture in hybrid teams
• Scaling innovation in hybrid teams

Learning Objectives

• Understand the Impact Working with Virtual/Hybrid Employees Has on Your Organization
• Understand the Science Connecting Team Dynamics and Innovation
• Identify Current Drivers and Barriers to Innovation and Their Implications
• Implement Techniques for Ideation in Hybrid Teams
• Enhance Your Leadership Role in Reimagining a New Culture of Innovation
• Develop an Implementation Plan for Your Team or Organization

The Business Case for Innovation

• Establish Working Definition of Innovation
• Understand Rationale for Investing in Innovation
• Identify Organizational Benefits of Innovation
• Explore Challenges and Opportunities of Innovation

Drivers of Innovation

• Identify Drivers and Barriers to Innovation
• Break Down the Steps to Innovative Thinking
• Connect Company Values to Innovation
• Explore Implications of Behavior for Innovation
• Evaluate Factors that Shape a Culture of Innovation

Virtual/Hybrid Team Dynamics and Innovation

• Understand the Emergence of Hybrid Teams
• Recognize the Science Connecting Team Dynamics and Innovation
• Explore How Innovation Appears in the Stages of Team Development
• Appreciate the Role of Collaboration, Flexibility, Resilience, Risk Taking, Trust and Communication in Fostering a Culture of Innovation

Creative Thinking and Brainstorming for Hybrid Teams

• Understand the Importance of Warming up for Thinking Creatively
• Reframing for Positive Outcomes
• Tell the Difference between Divergent and Convergent Thinking
• Know the Right and Wrong Way to Brainstorm during Online Meetings

Leadership that Encourages Innovation in Virtual/Hybrid Teams

• Enhance Your Leadership Role in Reimagining a New Culture of Innovation

Implementing Your Hybrid Ideas for a Culture of Innovation

• Experience the Stages of Developing an Innovative Hybrid Team for Both Leadership and Teams
• Enhance Your Leadership Role in Reimagining a New Culture of Innovation
• Generate and Develop Innovative Ideas with a Team
• Practice Integrating New Leadership Behaviors to Shape a New Culture of Innovation
• Present Team Project Outcome to Group and Receive Feedback

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