Innovate Diagnostic Tools & Assessments

Future-Ready Leadership: What is Your Innovator Profile?

This session is designed to prepare innovation leaders and top management teams for sustainable innovation and manage change. It reveals how to identify and develop your individual, your team’s and your organization’s innovation strengths for maximizing innovation at all levels. Includes a fascinating validated assessment and interactive exercises to help people explore their unique perspectives and potential.

The ‘FUTURE-READY LEADERSHIP’ Feedback and Coaching sessions are designed to assist individuals and teams with understanding how to interpret and apply the results of their profile assessment for more effective self, team and organization leadership. Our coaches work with you to identify your needs, tailor development programs, and measure progress. This assessment will help leaders understand their leadership innovation profile measure.

The iCLi (Innovative Change Leader Inventory) Diagnostic session is recommended to:

• Map current positions, roles and points of tension
• Reveal how individuals and leaders can deal with the complexities and challenges of constant change
• Demonstrate how successful individuals and leaders can effectively utilise the tensions between ‘fixed’ and ‘future’ mindsets to fuel sustainable development and growth.

This session explores how to manage innovation orientations in teams. It identifies the skills required for innovation leadership, and covers how teams can optimize innovation potential. By identifying both self-perceptions and team perceptions, the program enables greater insight into individual strengths and challenges and more targeted opportunities for development. Participants learn how to build on strengths and address potential challenge areas, and the iCLi profile provides an invaluable tool for explaining the path to ongoing success.

Also available is the iCLi 360 version: By identifying both individual self-perceptions and team perceptions of individual perspectives, the 360 report enables greater insight into individual strengths and challenges and enables more targeted opportunities for development. By demonstrating how it is possible to build on strengths and address potential challenge areas, the iCLi360 tool provides an invaluable tool for ongoing success.

The Feedback and Coaching sessions for teams are designed to assist teams with understanding how to interpret and apply the results of profile assessments for more effective self, team and organization leadership. Our coaches work with individuals and teams to identify needs, tailor development programs, and measure progress.

These sessions are dynamic interactive conversations that enable individuals and teams to identify and understand:

• ‘Ambidexterity’ strength and challenge areas
• Areas for development to build on strengths and complement or extend capabilities in challenge areas
• How to interact better with others to maximize team and organization results
• Goal setting strategies that include measurable actions
• Throughout the session notes are taken on relevant individual interpretations and applications which will assist with building the full personalized feedback report

Outcomes & takeaways:

• An identification of the traits of an innovative mindset and the changes needed to develop a more innovative team work environment.
• Practical action plans for targeting ambidextrous leadership development as a team

This sessions how to identify ‘creativogenic cultures’ in organisations for long term sustainable innovation .

Organization members can take the iCi (Innovation Climate Index) to identify team perceptions of the organization climate,  compare how individual scores relate to the overall organization results, and explore how the organization environment can be improved. This will help to check the organization’s preparedness for innovation.

For many years people have believed that innovation is about by being open and taking risks. Risk takers like Steve Jobs have been venerated for their innovation, accomplishments, and cutting-edge companies like Google which appear to be leading in the ‘innovation race’ due to their ‘open’ strategies. Yet Gaia Grant’s research from interviews with more than 70 global innovation leaders and surveys with more than 1,000 responses – along with our international consulting work with leading innovative companies over 30 years – has revealed that most leaders and organizations today have only half the story right. Few are set up for long term survival.

This session is based on Gaia’s recent book The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game and identifies the unlikely paradoxical elements needed to be ‘fit for the future’. It includes an interactive game board exercise with a global challenge and connected case studies to identify the principles for sustainable innovation. Through the session Gaia reveals her unique research findings on how to fuel innovation through successfully and dives deeper into the 4-key innovation ‘Paradox Pairings’ and the ‘Innovation Change Leader (iCLi) Profiling tool. This session can also be delivered as business facilitation – for a live group of leaders needing to explore these issues in real time.

Key benefits & takeaways:

• Challenges popular perspectives on ‘innovation winners.’
• Gaia’s research from interviews with more than 70 global innovation leaders and surveys with more than 1,000 responses has revealed that most contemporary organisations have only half the story right.
• Through the unusual ‘monk and mobile’ perspective, the session reveals unique research findings on how to fuel innovation through successfully navigating 4-key innovation ‘Paradox Pairings’.
• The validated ‘Innovation Change Leader (iCLi) Profiling Tool’ is introduced to demonstrate how to build individual innovation leadership strengths.
• The session is a fascinating blend of researched facts, case studies, and humorous insights as revealed in the latest breakthrough book by Gaia and Andrew: ‘The Innovation Race: How to change a culture to change the game’.