1. Hampshire Workforce Development Corporate Shared Services
Innovation
Helen Mason
Hampshire Workforce Development Corporate Shared Services

2. What is half of 13?

3. Optional housekeeping slide: includes working together (ground rules) at centre

4. Completing all the elements of this learning will enable you to re-think ways of delivering outcomes that go beyond our comfort zone and provide scope for innovation.
Learning Outcomes By the end of the course you will be able to 1) Access and apply practical tools and techniques that nurture the conditions for creative thinking and innovation 2) Analyse and evaluate ideas generated and options available for service development and solutions 3) Plan to actively build a culture of innovation and enhance the service delivery by creating an environment where innovative thinking is an integral part of the way that everyone works

5. Overview of half day session
Terms and preferences
Nurturing the conditions for innovation
Analysing and evaluating ideas
Building a culture of innovation
Action plan for your organisation

6. Introductions Name and role Scope for innovation in your organisation
Area most of interest to you this morning and why
Groundrules

7. Quiz - definitions Creativity Innovation Innovative culture
Revolutionary innovation
Evolutionary innovation
Group think

8. Our preferences in how we approach innovation

9. Our preferences in how we approach innovation
Adaptor preference:
Do it better
Work within existing frame
Fewer, more acceptable solutions
Lower risk/higher structure
Essential for ongoing functions
Innovator preference:
Do it differently
Challenges and reframes
Many solutions, more radical
Fluid, comfort in ambiguity
Essential in times of change
Ref: Kirton

10. Preferences Analyse your own preference
Analyse the preferences of your leadership team
What do you notice?
What are the implications for your organisation?
What may you need to put in place?

11. What one English word does this represent?
HIJKLMNO

12. Hot Spots

13. Creating Hot Spots
HOT SPOT =
(Co-operative mindset x Boundary Spanning x Igniting Purpose) x Productive Capacity
Ref: Gratton

14. Hot Spots Score each factor for your organisation
Which factors, if they could be re-inforced, would have the biggest impact on innovation in your organisation?
What actions can you take as a leader to re-inforce these key factors in your organisation?

18. Objective decision making – the Feasibility/Attractiveness Matrix
Define the criteria: 1) Feasibilty – how easy it is to do 2) Attractiveness – how much it solves the real problem List and label all the options Plot on the matrix

19. Objective decision making – the Feasibility/Attractiveness Matrix
High
Good
solutions
that need
more work
Possible
solutions
Best
solutions
Good
solutions
that need
more work
Weaker
solutions
Possible
solutions
Weakest
solutions
Weaker
solutions
Possible
solutions
Low
Low
High
FEASIBILITY

20. F/A Matrix Consider the actions you created in the Hot Spots session
Plot each action on the F/A Matrix
Decide which actions to pursue and when
Develop ideas that are ‘good but need more work’
Discuss in pairs and coach
each other to best solutions

23. 6 strategies to build a culture of innovation
Understand and define types of innovation you are trying to foster
Empower ‘innovation champions’ to push back against organisational bumpers and silos
Redefine metrics and incentives and give ‘air cover’
Give employees tools to make their case and ensure that unusual ideas get a hearing and can progress
Create a safe space for experimentation and learning
Lead infectiously – allow people to move fast and learn from mistakes

24. Strategies
Which of the strategies resonate most with you currently for your organisation?
Where do you think you need to focus?
Who can help you?
What obstacles will need to be overcome?
What key strategies will you take forward?

25. Action planning
From this whole half day session: What will you take away and use back at work? Present your action plan to the rest of the group and receive feedback

26. “Sacred cows make great steaks”
For quotes, please use this format
“Sacred cows make great steaks”
Richard Branson

27. “Instead of pouring knowledge into people’s heads, we need to help them grind a new set of eyeglasses so that they can see the world in a new way.”
Thoreux
For quotes, please use this format

28. Completing all the elements of this learning will enable you to re-think ways of delivering outcomes that go beyond our comfort zone and provide scope for innovation.
Learning Outcomes By the end of the session you will be able to 1) Access and apply practical tools and techniques that nurture the conditions for creative thinking and innovation 2) Analyse and evaluate ideas generated and options available for service development and solutions 3) Plan to actively build a culture of innovation and enhance the service delivery by creating an environment where innovative thinking is an integral part of the way that everyone works

29. Hampshire Workforce Development Corporate Shared Services
Innovation
Helen Mason
Hampshire Workforce Development Corporate Shared Services