1. Developing an Innovation Mindset Lynn Fick-Cooper ANCC Pathway to Excellence Conference 2016

2. KEY POINT:
For innovation to happen, we need to search for the value in all new ideas. 

3. Benefits: Where are you when you get your best ideas?
What would be the benefit to you professionally & personally if you could increase your creative and/or innovative thinking skills?

4. Benefits
If creative thinking and innovation are so darned important, why don’t we see more of it?

6. DEFINING OUR TERMS
“All innovation begins with creative ideas… [Creativity] is necessary, but not a sufficient condition for [Innovation].” Amabile et. al.

7. KEY POINTS
For innovation to happen, leaders need to search for the value in all new ideas
Innovation isn’t just a “product”
Innovation is a process & we have preferences
Innovation is rarely a solo performance

8. 10 Types of innovation Configuration: Profit model Network Structure
Process
Offering
Product Performance
Product System
Experience
Service
Channel
Brand
Customer Engagement
Offering
Details at:
Experience

9. How do we react to newness?

10. HABITS Do you have habits? What are some habits you know you have?
What are some habits you don’t know you have?
Is it possible these could block newness?

11. Threat Response (STRESS) Heightened sensitivity
“Going Limbic”
Threat
Threat Response (STRESS)
Stress-mediated
adaptation in limbic,
ACC and PFC
Heightened sensitivity
to threat and stress

12. Automatic / Controlled Divide
ELEPHANT
Automatic & powerfully emotional
Often privileges “minimize danger”
RIDER
8-12 % of brain; ‘conscious awareness’
Easily overwhelmed by the elephant

13. FUNDAMENTAL BEHAVIOR FOR INNOVATION:
Be self-aware
Recognize the elephant
Grab the reins; “Upshift”
Prepare/intention
Sleep/Renewal

14. HOW TO TREAT NEW IDEAS Praise First/POINt Pluses – what’s good now?
Opportunities – what might be good in the future?
Issues – what’s not right yet
How to
How might
In what ways might
New thinking – to overcome the issues
Short on time? Consider sharing a PINT.
Not enough time? There’s always room for PI

15.  WHY USE POINT? Critical thinking tool Make any idea workable
Investment in developing alignment
Help others see value in your idea – rationale
Help team debrief performance to learn and improve 