Learning Essentials Week 19: Courage and risk-taking & Driving change and innovation

We are on our 19th week of showcasing 2-3 weekly skills and a comprehensive list of resources to learn about them and put them into practice!?We are putting a lot of effort into researching and curating content to add value to you. We hope you are finding these resources useful.

This week we are focusing on Courage and risk-taking & Driving change and innovation

Being in a workplace means you have to deal with ceaseless challenges and sudden changes that might be unfamiliar to you. Hence, it is important that you embody the skill of being courageous and a risk-taker. Apparently, there are three types of workplace courage: TRY courage; TRUST courage; and TELL courage.?

Fostering courage in the workplace enables you to grow out of your comfort zone and take risks. However, you must also accept the fact that by being courageous, you need to understand that everything is risky. But then, always put in mind that what follows the risks is the reward. Even brave leaders choose courage to excel at work because it is a form of honest communication and problem resolution. Indeed, widening your capacity for courage does not only help your career but it makes you a better leader.

With that, it is highly encouraged to establish a workplace culture of calculated risks in order for the employees to learn how to embrace risks 一 instead of avoiding them. Taking risks is a 50-50 chance, it’s either you fail or succeed. But it is smart risk taking that pushes the company to achieve new heights. By means of risk taking, you must learn how to explore and experiment and of course, make your own decisions. In the end, people who are not afraid of doing more and challenging themselves can always lead to greater success.?

The ability to drive change or be innovative, on the other hand, is also a necessary skill at work. Innovation always begins with a mindset of possibility. Hence, an innovative culture in the workplace must not only allow employees to create, but also to think, manage, and collaborate.?

Leaders should also know how to prioritize workplace experience since the environment also affects performance of the employees. Having a vision or problem statement could also be a good starting point to drive innovation. More so, you should focus on the things that need to be done in order to provide customers the experiences they need. For more ways and tips, this article reveals 16 Techniques to Encourage Innovation in the Workplace.

Indeed, innovation skills are vital to the growth of the company which are the power skills, people management, and change management. One of the leadership practices that pushes the organization to innovate is identifying a key innovation challenge that the company must work on. Driving innovation is not only an individual work thus you must learn to be collaborative among your team members. Employers should enforce collaborative experimentation to improve the tendency of success at innovation.

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