Apple has changed the world with its ground breaking Innovations such as: AirTags, AirPods, Apple Watch, Siri, iPhone, Ipod.

And it is not by chance, it is the culture that created, shaped by its leadership - with the well-known Steve Job saying

''Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower''

So Question to You as Manager, Leaders, Executive, and Team member,:

''Is Your Organisation a Leader or a Follower''?

and

'How are you going to cultivate & increase Innovation for your organisation?'

Part 1: It starts with Leadership, with You

In previous articles, I shared on the Organisation Results & Culture, and How Leaders, Managers can influence the Organisation.

So Let's take a closer look at You as Leader

• What's Your mindset?

+ Do you welcome, seek and learn from Feedback/ FeedForward?

+ Do you seek collaboration?

+ Are you practicing being Empathetic?

+ Do you embrace experimentation & interate?

+ Do you get inspired by success of others?

+ Do you embrace new things & challenges?

• Do You have skills to cultivate Innovation culture?

• Do You have the mandate to do so?

• Are You Conciously Making Time, Space & resource available for Innovation of Your team?

• Are you providing mentoring, trainings opportunities & tools for Your Leaders to cultivate Innovation ?

If the answer is No, It's time to be the courage You - look in the miro & challenge Yourself.

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Part 2: It starts with Your Manager, Lead

• Managers account for at least 70 % of the variance in employee engagement across business units, Gallup also found.

• 1 disengaged employee costs an organization approximately 34% of salary: $3,400 for every $10,000 of salary, Gallup estimates.

• Employee turnover costs an organization 50%- 250 % of a position’s annual salary plus benefits (which is often 50% salary), SHRM has determined.

• 84% of American workers say poorly trained people managers create a lot of unnecessary work and stress; 

• 57% of American workers say managers in their workplace could benefit from training on how to be a better people manager

• 50% American workers feel their own performance would improve if their direct supervisor received additional training in people management

Sadly, it happens so often that a new person is promoted /made to become Manager without training, mentoring & coaching.

Question:

• Are Your (Becoming/New/ Young) Manager getting mentoring, training, coaching on Being People Manager & Cultivating Innovation?

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Part 3: It starts with Team and Team member

Let's face it, Leaders are not Super Fairy who can ''Do it all'' for everyone.

Many Managers, Leaders actually 'inherit' the existing teams, organisation, culture, when they come in (for better or worse).

And Let's deal with it, It is difficult Changing teams, organisations and culture that exist & evolved long before you came in.

It would be very interesting to see how much of a leader/ manager behavior is influenced by surrounding group/teams.

In Asch Conformity Line Experiment, Psychologist Solomon Asch study result in one of the most important breakthrough of social psychology:

Group dynamic & conformity

Solomon study results :

• Individual can be Influenced to conform with the Group thinking & behaviors,

• If there are more Partners, Individual will be more likely to say the truth (difference than group answer)

• If there is No pressure on Social embarrasement, individual will be more likely to say the truth

=> What does this mean in Teams & Organisation context?

In my opinion, Teams & Team member can make differences to some extent.

What IF

• as an individual, YOU start trying something news, something difference

• and You have partners/ team members/other individual to willing trying out with you

• and there is less or no pressure for Social embarrasment

• and the results proves that it's working

• gradually there are more people willing to try it

• this became snowball effect

• after a while, the previous ''new thing'' became ''normal'' => it became a part of the group behavior

Magnify examples of this group dynamic & behavior?

• Covid 19 social behaviors

• Martin Luther King movement

• Dalai Lama movement

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==> SO Are You In for a small experiement ?

to see if You as individual can Really make differences.

• Pick 1 small thing You as Team member want differently than current status quo

• Discuss it & Find simple solution/idea with Your Group/Team

• Give it a try at least 3 times

• Share openly in/outside your group/team on lesson learnt/ failure/ success

• Learnt from it as group, try to improve it & Iterate

• Share openly in/outside your group/team

• Watch and experience the movement....

=> if you tried it, would you mind sharing with me how it went?