The Innovation Team /
Building Aligned Teams

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Establishing and leading ambidextrous, agile & aligned teams to manage competing innovation challenges consists of the following modules:

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Managing Team Innovation

Navigating the Innovation Highway through Dynamic Polar Positioning

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Team Innovation Action Plans

Maximising team innovation capabilities and improving team performance

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Strategic Team Scenario Planning

Implementation in workplace scenarios

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KEY WORDS: Change Management, Paradox Theory, Sense Making, Strategic Alignment

How to embrace innovation to lead Ambidextrous, Agile & Aligned teams.

This session explored how leaders and teams can identify and make sense of the paradoxical tension in teams. The aim is to ensure teams become more ambidextrous, agile and aligned. This ensures any tension can be used to pull a team forwards constructively, rather than ripping them apart. In the session a path is charted to help leaders identify and assess their own and the team’s alignment, ensuring long term sustainable development.

Tirian’s latest research reveals how understanding ‘Paradoxical Innovation Orientations’ (PIOs) and applying the ‘Dynamic Polar Positioning Tool’ (DPoP) at the individual, team and organisation levels can assist with fuelling innovation and sustainable growth. In this program participants learn how to manage the dynamic tension between the principles of exploration; for breakthrough new innovation ideas, and preservation; for incremental continuous improvement. Through this process participants come to appreciate the importance of complementing each other to become future-ready leaders and an aligned agile team.

Managing team innovation

  • Navigating team innovation through applying the Dynamic Polar Positioning
    (DPoP) tool
  • Mapping our Team’s ‘Innovation Highway’
    (Positioning exercise)
  • Navigating the Innovation Paradox as a team.
  • Resolving innovation team tensions (Discussions)
  • 360 drawing feedback from my team (Drawing activity)

Team innovation action plans

  • The team’s experience of competing demands (Survey)
  • Team Mapping – Establishing roles in the context of the
    team to assess and understand openness to change
    (Team mapping exercise)

Strategic team scenario planning

  • Establishing roles in the context of the team to assess and understand openness to change
  • Team Action Planning (internal tensions)
  • Team Applications
  • Project Navigation
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REC TIME: 2-8 hrs

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REC SIZE: 5-20

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PLATFORMS: Keynote, Workshop, Coaching, Bus Facilitation

Team Tools & Resources

CollaboratorCanvas

Innovation Team Coaching Collaborator Canvas and Team Profiling

This Collaborator Canvas and ICLI team profiling will help teams dive deep into managing the tension that change and innovation brings and come up with an action plan. (also available for accredited coaches and licensed partners.) Includes:

  • Feedback and Coaching: To assist with understanding how to interpret and apply results for behaviour change.
  • Action Planning Sessions: Reveal how teams can utilise the tensions between ‘fixed’ and ‘future’ mindsets deal with the complexities and challenges of constant change
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