INNOVATION COACHING BLOG
JANET IS AN AWARD-WINNING INNOVATION BLOGGER AND THOUGHT LEADER ON THE PEOPLE SIDE OF INNOVATION.
Janet’s innovation coaching blog seeks to inspire and, inform individuals and teams to nurture and embed innovation-led change in individuals, teams, organisations, experiencing the shockwaves of disruptive change in our VUCA world.
INSIGHTS FROM MY ISRAELI START-UP IMMERSION
Learn from Israeli Start-ups, how to share our kindness, knowledge and wisdom with the uninformed and the doubtful whilst appreciating and harvesting the rich tapestry of our long histories, unique cultural legacies, and profound and rich life experiences as decent human beings, who focus on adding value to the quality of peoples lives that are appreciated and cherished.
FIVE STEPS FOR OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION
I often wonder how some people are great at overcoming procrastination, yet others delay, postpone, or avoid solving problems, and withdraw from making smart decisions, taking calculated risks, or taking intelligent actions? - Why...
WHAT IS NOT COACHING – GUEST BLOG BY VENKAT RAGHAVAN
If you are an executive coach or a personal coach, newly certified or veteran, you have probably come across enough material on coaching and the many nuances of coaching. So, to make things a little interesting, I thought of writing something a little different: What...
COACHING FROM THE EMERGING FUTURE
The COVID-19 pandemic initiated and accelerated dramatic changes in the way we worked and ran our organisations in 2020. Coupled with disruptive social and political unrest most leaders are investing valuable time and resources in planning how best to extract benefits...
NAVIGATING THE INNOVATION PUZZLE SUCCESSFULLY
Innovation coaches enable and empower leaders and teams to evoke new ways of knowing, being, and acting through integrating a strategic and systemic perspective, change management disciplines, and deep learning approach to build innovation agility.
HARNESSING AND MOBILISING CREATIVE TENSION
According to McKinsey & Co. in a recent article “Beyond Coronavirus – the path to the next normal” that “The coronavirus is not only a health crisis of immense proportion—it’s also an imminent restructuring of the global economic order”. This means that we are at...
INNOVATION COACHES – CO-CREATING THE “NEW NORMAL”
How will innovation coaches support leaders to navigate the current Covid-19 crisis - considering that, in a recent article McKinsey “Beyond coronavirus: The path to the next normal” states that: “It is increasingly clear our era will be defined by a fundamental...
COACHING IN AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE
One of the most exciting aspects of living and coaching in an innovation culture, is the creative energy that constantly erupts, causing disruptive bursts to the way people think, feel and act. Especially when it comes to sensing, seeing and solving complex problems,...
COACHING TO DRIVE 21ST CENTURY SUCCESS
As more and more industries face disruption through technology, the role of coaching is becoming more critical in helping prepare leaders in organizations for the inevitability of constant and accelerating change in a disruptive VUCA world. The coaching profession is...
SURVIVE AND THRIVE IN THE ENTREPRENEUR’S GAME
In 2018, I celebrated the 30 year anniversary of my corporate career exit as a top retail executive at the now-defunct Australian Coles-Myer Group. It was also my 30-year anniversary as a serial entrepreneur, who is now running a global SME culture consulting and...
CULTIVATING A FAIL FAST CULTURE
In a recent blog, What does it mean to cultivate a fail fast organizational culture we shared what typically happens when people experience failure, and how important it is to uncouple people’s fears about failure and to support and enable them to “normalize” it. How...
THE ART OF CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS
We all know that you can’t innovate if you don’t collaborate, yet how do we make the time to have the candid and creative conversations that a collaborative work environment requires? Conflicting priorities and ever-present digital media distractions constantly...
ACCELERATING LEARNING & COACHING PATHWAYS TO INNOVATE
Having failed to successfully engage, train and retain a few millennials in my global innovation culture consulting, education and coaching business, I hit the proverbial pause button, and asked myself, why isn’t it working out?
INNOVATION COACHING AND MENTORING
The business playing field has changed and will keep on changing, in ways that we cannot yet imagine. Uncertainty and instability are the key drivers of the business game, and many of our coaching clients are challenged by a diverse range of wicked, societal, business...
GENERATING DISCOVERY FOR INNOVATION
Just in case you haven’t seen the latest Star Trek movie yet, here is one of its key messages in generating discovery for innovation, which links to generating fresh new ways of business problem-solving: “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an...
DEALING WITH FEAR OF FAILURE
In the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report more than 206,000 individuals were surveyed across 73 economies and 3936 national experts on entrepreneurship from 73 economies participated in the survey. GEM participant economies represent 72.4% of the world’s...
CHANGE YOUR QUESTIONS AND CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
In the incredibly challenging process of compiling, collating and presenting the new ImagineNation MOOC (massive online open course) on innovative leadership, we created a new role for innovative managers and leaders as ‘disruptive provocateurs!’ One of their key...
LEADING AND COACHING INNOVATION
I recently caught up with a long term, highly successful and esteemed colleague who proudly shared with me her latest model for developing high performance leaders in global corporations. It was a very comprehensive and multi-faceted model, that clearly outlined the...
BE THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY
Steve Jobs proved that surprising the market again and again with exciting unexpected solutions results in incredible business, customer, and profitable outcomes. He achieved these outcomes despite increases in global competition, a roller-coaster economy, and...
MAKE INNOVATION CRITICAL
Whether you are in a product or service business, if you don’t innovate, eventually you will disappear from the marketplace. Competition is intensifying and most companies are fighting to retain their market positions and customer loyalty. Make innovation a critical...