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Making risk feel like learning
From the course: Management Tips
Making risk feel like learning
- The key to real innovation and change is getting people to engage educated risk taking. The problem is that people traditionally think about risk in a negative manner. It's dangerous, to be avoided and can hurt you. So, the solution is to work hard to change how people feel about risk. In fact, you wanna stop referring to risk and instead, start thinking a lot about learning. Learning, as a phrase, doesn't have nearly as much baggage as risk, so now your task becomes one of encouraging learning. Here's just a few key ways you can do that. First, talk about it. Make talking about possibilities and changes a normal, nearly daily event. The more common the conversation, the more likely you'll see the kind of behavioral engagement that supports change and improvement. Next, reduce the negativity. By this I mean both the quick negative comments that often follow ideas, as well as the negative evaluations handed out by managers to people who tried something that didn't work out. All…
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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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