From the course: Management Tips
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Creating needed debate
Many times at work we all know that difficult conversations are necessary. We also know that good men and women choose not to engage those discussions. It's understandable, at some level. Modern humans are not socially programmed to engage in conflict or to inflame tense situations. Tense situations happen but usually, it wasn't a choice, it was just a momentary loss of control by one or more people. We've all been there. You're in a meeting and someone says, "Okay, the numbers are in and for the third quarter "in a row, the new product we introduced " last year is down again." Then they move on to another announcement. Everybody knows the product has not performed well. They know it's time to start talking about corrective courses of action, whether that's removing the product and relaunching later or just scrapping it all together and writing off the inventory. Everyone also knows, the boss, who's sitting in the room was a big backer of the new product that's now tanking. There's…
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Becoming a change agent2m 59s
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Finding targets for innovation2m 45s
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Assessing your organization's change readiness2m 50s
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Embracing failure2m 33s
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Developing your creativity3m 6s
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Breaking through with brainstorming3m 16s
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Embracing the devil's advocate2m 50s
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Managing creative talent3m 2s
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Fighting bureaucracy3m 6s
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Not all best practices are best2m 57s
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Diversity’s real power2m 6s
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Initiating change conversations2m 57s
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Creating needed debate3m 2s
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Knowing when to engage positive conflict2m 42s
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Myth of creative genius2m 44s
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Changing routines to build new thought2m 41s
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Making risk feel like learning2m 47s
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The difference between creativity and innovation3m 10s
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People don't hate change2m 47s
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Advocating for the unpopular2m 20s
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The upside of limited resources2m 54s
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Understanding change capacity2m 24s
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Picking a successful fight at work2m 19s
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Start, stop, change2m 44s
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