Paul Sloane explains why most organizations fail at innovation. He breaks down the barriers: culture, process, and managers who kill ideas before they start. His workshops teach problem analysis, brainstorming, and how to actually implement what you come up with.
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Okay. Hi, my name is Paul Sloane, and I help organizations improve innovation. I go around the world, and I work with large corporations and small businesses. I give talks and workshops on leadership, innovation, creativity, and lateral thinking. You know, if what you're focused on right now is improving the business, making it work better, eliminating problems, improving sales, improving efficiency, driving down cost, improving customer service, then you're not really a leader. You're a manager. Because all of those tasks are management tasks. They're not leadership tasks. Leadership involves change. It involves innovation. It involves taking the organization from where it is today to somewhere different in the future. Leadership and innovation live in the same house. In my talks, I discuss the characteristics, the habits of innovative leaders, how they think and what they do. And in my workshops, we examine those kinds of issues in a very interactive way. People discuss their own styles, and then we examine what's impeding innovation inside your organization, and we look at ways that you can solve those problems. And typically the problems lie in one of 3 areas: cultural issues, process issues, or most importantly, leadership issues. Very often what's blocking innovation inside your business is you. Some of your habits, some of your management style, the way you lead people, can either encourage them to contribute ideas or send a signal that says, I don't really want your ideas. So what we do in the workshop is we look at some problem analysis techniques. We look at some brainstorming techniques, some simple ones and more advanced ones. We look at how you can generate great ideas for your business problems. We look at how you can evaluate those ideas and how you can implement them. And that really is how you get innovation going. It's not really that difficult, but lots of companies struggle with it because you have to be committed. You have to have a plan. You have to encourage the ideas. You have to bring them through. You have to implement them. And I can help you do that. So if I can assist in any way, please let me know.
