6 Core Competency Needs in the Post-Pandemic C-Suite: Innovation Is Empowering

Consistency and repetition have their place in business. Procedures and processes keep warehouses humming. Techniques help craftsmen reproduce exquisite products. Engineers require consistent and predictable environments within which to code.?

When it comes to the C-suite, though, consistency is a rare commodity.?

What Is Innovation in Leadership?

Leaders operate at the top of the org chart. They address issues, come up with solutions, and assume the risk of the unknown.

Navigating the uncertainties of the C-suite requires a unique level of innovation. The ability to come up with creative solutions for both old and new problems is part of what sets a leader apart.?

The term “solutions” is important here, too. Harvard Business School makes a key clarification between innovation and creativity.?

While creativity involves fostering unique ideas, innovation ensures that those new concepts aren’t just fresh. They also need to be useful. Innovation ensures that new ideas are turned into bonafide reality. Innovative leaders shepherd both their own and their team’s creativity from conception through development and delivery.

“While creativity involves fostering unique ideas, innovation ensures that those new concepts aren’t just fresh. They also need to be useful.”

The Need for Innovation in the C-Suite

Good executives are always implementing innovation. This can come on a large scale, such as A CEO overseeing the launch of a new product or service. It can also be as simple as a CHRO tweaking an existing process to optimize the onboarding process.?

Whatever the circumstances might be, innovation should be a perpetual activity. Competent members of the C-suite will always be looking for ways to exercise their ingenuity.

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About the Author

William Brewer, CCP, is a Director at?Stanton Chase Los Angeles. He is also Stanton Chase’s Global?Human Resources Practice?Leader.?

Prior to moving into?executive search, Bill had 25 years of experience in corporate human resources. In addition to his executive search career, Bill is an adjunct Professor at the University of Redlands.?

Bill also serves as a mentor for the MBA program at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and has been a mentor with the School of Business at the University of Redlands.???