“Whether you believe you can, or believe you can’t – you’re right!” – Henry Ford
Why is Growth Mindset Important for Innovation Training Success?
The image of the sign above hangs in a current client’s inventory warehouse and caught our attention. Being with creative and growth focused leaders and teams in all sizes and types of organizations is an honor that we treasure. The sign brings to mind a key principle for organizations looking to change their culture and grow. It’s all about growth mindset to enable innovation training success.
We’ve spent time with three (3) very different types of organizations over the last 120+ days.
- The first, a mid-market privately held organization.
- This organization has some great opportunities in front of it.
- Their situation is the most awesome and rare opportunity.
- It’s very difficult to make happen, and happens only once (or twice) in the lifetime of an organization.
- It’s the New-New-New trifecta. New product +New technologies + New Market.
- The second, a larger well-established government organization.
- This organization knows that it needs to innovate and think differently.
- The third, another mid-market privately held.
- Looking to deliver more value to its B2B customers by deeply understanding their customer experience (CX).
What are the Common Growth Mindset Threads Across Organizations?
A common thread with each, is the similarity in qualities of their organizational leadership.
Each leader:
- Desires a culture of becoming a learning organization.
- Provides opportunities for their team to learn and get smarter.
- Wants the organization to grow. Not just in top line revenue and operational efficiency, but internal capability and skills.
- Recognizes they need some support and help from some experts to train up their teams for success.
The leaders are thinking about the development of their teams. And in some cases, yes, even their very own leadership legacy. They are actively working on transition planning to make it better for the leaders that will come up to replace them.
What makes each unique is that the leaders are actively working on their internal leadership mindset. These leaders are pushing themselves to think differently, and encouraging their teams to do the same.
What are five (5) steps individual leaders practice to build growth mindset?
Most importantly, they trained along with their team. Not only did each leader train along with their teams in these sessions, each expressed on a very personal level and directly to their teams, why they believe first and have faith in their team to make it happen. Each leader, leading by example in their own unique way, is teaching their team to do the following:
- Have faith – it will be well.
- Make a choice
- Take action.
- Learn.
- Then practice.
You want to think more creatively? Take action, learn, then practice.
You want to grow your organization for the good? Be it net margin, or impact with others. Take action, learn, & practice.
Then watch what happens.
If you are looking to understand more of what the mindset shift can look like, consider attending our upcoming Q4 education programs, scheduled for October and November.
Here’s three (3) ways on learn more and have meaningful Innovation Training and Growth Mindset Experience:
Leading for Growth Webinar – 02 October 2018 12:15PM EST
Sign up and join The Innovation Garage® for this webinar to understand what it takes for your organization to build out its innovation and growth capability with our innovation training offerings.
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Innovation Breakfast Session – 11 October 2018 8:30AM-10:30AM EST
We’re back with our friends at Baldwin Wallace University’s Center for Innovation & Growth. Get together with local organization innovators to share best practices, network and learn. In this 2 hour session, we’ll cover some basics on strategy for innovation, and share our learnings and best practices for those considering building their organizations internal capability to grow.
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Innovation 101 Workshop – 01 November 2018 8:30AM-4:30PM EST
A one (1) day session that provides the basics on Innovation that will help you in your daily work..
Everyone Can Innovate – NOW.
No matter your role in the organization, being more innovative means you can create, communicate, and accelerate ideas for anything. At this one (1) day program workshop, you’ll experience the fundamentals of the innovation and growth mindset necessary for creating front end ideas for products, processes, and services.
In this workshop you’ll learn the very basics on:
- How to create ideas and problem solve (with methods 8x more effective than brainstorming).
- How to communicate ideas in a way that builds them up and sells.
- How to take an idea from inspiration to reality – FAST
- MindMapping (Basics as an innovation and growth mindset acceleration tool)
- Innovation Basics Systems Skills (Create – Communicate – Commercialize)
- Design Thinking Introductory Skills (Empathy – Define – Ideate – Prototype – Test)
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So, join us… and get to work on that mindset!
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