Surveys converge on the fact that 80% of ideas in companies come from teams working in the field.

Given that people working in the field are fully familiar with their positions, most motivated to develop their skills and in daily contact with clients, suppliers and company partners, they are the ones most likely to identify problems, find solutions, or even suggest new ways for obtaining sustainable growth for the company.

 

Managers who succeed in today’s age of knowledge and complexity are those able to tap into this extraordinary source of talent.

Developed jointly with Isaac Getz, Professor at the ESCP-EAP (School of Management for Europe), Associate Professor at Stanford University and one of the world’s leading specialists in innovation and creativity, this course encourages you to devise a formal approach for managing ideas, much like those already adopted by companies for cutting costs or managing quality.

 

Learning plan

Encourage the emergence of ideas and initiative

• From the all-powerful manager to the facilitator manager

• Encourage the expression of ideas

• Conduct meetings for releasing creativity

• Learn to adopt the Walt Disney method: being creative, being realistic and being critical

• Create group dynamics

Promote the implementation of ideas

• Encourage colleagues to find and implement solutions themselves

• React quickly to simple, local initiatives

• Identify transverse ideas and plan the support mode

Support ideas through to their execution

• Learn to listen actively

• Monitor colleagues in their implementation and help them progress on their own (Grow method)

• Underscore success by honouring achievements

• Acknowledge the value of failure

Support innovations that go beyond your field of competence

• Facilitate an idea’s advancement outside your unit

• Promote your colleagues’ development