How Innovation Can Benefit Your Organization
Innovation is what drives any organization. It is what takes it to the next level. It is how even the best employees can use their skills to their fullest potential. Great, collaborative innovation can take your organization from being an industry player to being an industry leader. The 2019 Learning and Development Report compiled by findcourses.com explains why. Experimentation and team-led idea-sharing can be built into your organization’s L&D (Learning and Development) strategy. In short: you can use training to encourage innovation. Here’s how.
Every organization knows the importance of having a great L&D strategy that emphasizes both hard and soft skills, like leadership and communication. But take a moment to think about yours. Does your L&D strategy actively encourage team members to educate one another? Does it encourage active thinking and participation by trainees? Is there regular training to ensure ongoing, innovative professional development? If the answer to any of these questions is no, then there is scope for more innovation.
The key to building an innovative L&D strategy is to remove the fear of failure. If employees can pitch their ideas, and perhaps even take some exploratory steps if there appears to be potential in them, then that only serves to help your organization. Think of it this way: Apple is the market leader in the world of smart gadgets. Yet they rarely launch any new products. They update, remodel and reinvent what they already have. Apple is able to do this as it actively encourages its employees to think outside the box and to try something new.
While your organization may not be a global leader like Apple, there is still much to be gleaned from this. This is backed up by the 2019 L&D Report. Creating a safe space for innovation means that the very best skills, potentially even hidden skills, that your team has to offer can come to the fore.
Training can bring this out of your employees as well. The more innovative, interactive and collaborative the training, the more your employees will feel comfortable bouncing ideas and strategies off one another. L&D is key to professional development. Professional development is key to building an innovative team. But how do you keep your L&D strategy focused yet flexible and agile enough to create that safe space for innovation?
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To help you avoid stepping into these all too common pitfalls, we’ve reflected on our five years as an organization working on corporate innovation programs across the globe, and have prepared 100 DOs and DON’Ts.
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