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How to Drive Innovation on Your Team

How to Drive Innovation on Your Team

Total video time: 17m
Award-winning instructor: Jeff Fajans, PhD
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What you’ll learn

Recognize the direct impact of a manager on their team
Understand the manager's role in the output of a team
Cultivate an innovative culture on a team
Create creative opportunities for team members

Skills you’ll gain

Leadership Coaching Creativity

You’ve recognized that your team’s performance has become a bit dull, and you want members to fully realize their creative and innovative capabilities. This course, taught by Jeff Fajans PhD, executive creative leadership coach, will teach you how to build a creative and innovative environment for your team. Innovative thinkers naturally come up with new solutions, create efficiencies, and consequently help a company remain competitive. Jeff will provide tactics that you, as your team’s manager, can use to facilitate a creative, innovative work environment. You'll learn how to create opportunities for your team to formulate new ideas, new thoughts, and develop new, invigorating, problem solving skills. You'll also be given information as to how to preserve and evolve this innovative culture for the long-term. After completing this course, you should feel confident driving and maintaining your team’s creative innovations to new levels.

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    Leaders drive innovation As a manager, you have a direct impact on the creative and innovative outputs from your team. 2m
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    Why innovation matters Organizations require innovative thinkers because they help companies find new solutions, create efficiencies, and remain competitive. 2m
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    Drivers of innovation There are several things you can do as a leader that help to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within your team. 3m
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    Innovation inhibitors Because leaders play such an integral role in leaving room to innovate, it's important to be mindful of the things you can do that have a negative impact on innovation. 2m
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    Opportunities to innovate A key element of fostering innovation on your team is by empowering your team to run with ideas, generate new ones, or solve unique problems. 2m
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    Keeping teams engaged Over time, your team will grow and evolve, so it's important to instill a culture of innovation over the long-term. 2m
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    Driving innovation forward Thanks for watching this course! 1m

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded upon successful completion of the course.

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Instructor

Jeff Fajans, PhD

Jeff Fajans, PhD is a creative performance and executive coach who partners with creative professionals, leaders, and organizations to help them bring their biggest ideas to life and create thriving cultures that ignite creativity and innovation. In his past roles, Jeff served as Head of Talent & Organization Development within various creative marketing agencies - partnering with senior leaders & executives to bring forth culture & leadership transformations that drive innovation, high-performance, and growth. He is also an avid music creator, guitar player, and kettlebell workout enthusiast. Married to an amazing woman. Proud Dad to a curious and hilarious toddler named Hendrix. His mission is to help others bring their biggest ideas to life.  He is driven by creativity, curiosity, courage, compassion, and helping others become their best creative selves.

Creative Performance and Executive Coach at Jeff Fajans Coaching Jeff Fajans, PhD

Jeff Fajans, PhD

Creative Performance and Executive Coach at Jeff Fajans Coaching

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