Leading Innovative Teams
By:Beth Flynn, Tuesday, July 26th, 2016
From: Dyer, W., Dyer, J.H., and Dyer, W.G. (2013). Team building: proven strategies for improving team performance. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
"Do you have what it takes to create an innovative team? An organization's most valued leaders are those who lead innovative teams - teams that generate and implement valuable new product, process, and strategy ideas.
So what are the characteristics of leaders - and teams - who excel at innovating?
- A leader with strong innovation skills who leads by example and creates a safe space for others to shine instead of dominating them
- Team members who possess a complementary mix of innovation and execution skills, as well as complementary expertise in multiple functions and knowledge domains
- Team processes that explicitly encourage, support, and even require team members to engage in questioning, observing, networking, experimenting, and associational thinking as they hunt for creative solutions to problems
When a team has all of these qualities, it has the capacity to become an innovation lighthouse for an organization. To realize this role, though, requires a leader fully capable of leading an innovative team (p. 183-184)."
What are some ideas you have about how to be an innovative leader?
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