Tag: support

Keep Innovators Supported

Post author By jrlsage
Post date May 21, 2017

Make an effort

You are an innovator.

If you weren’t, you wouldn’t read this. You would skip over this and head over to a top ten listicle that gave you tactics that kind of work.

No, you’re in this innovation thing a little deeper than the surface, and that’s why you are critical in the fight to keep innovation alive.

Whenever you get a chance, urge someone to “keep shooting,” or to lead. In this game, each one teaches one, and every bit of support helps.

Remember when you felt alone, and someone helped?

Take today to pay it forward.

Tags effort, next, support

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One Small Move Can Boost Creativity

Post author By jrlsage
Post date January 20, 2017

Small changes add up

Creativity is the buzzword of the day.

Where Jeopardy Knowledge thrives, creativity is fragile.

People stop asking questions, and the “right way” becomes law.

At most organizations, you can’t stop “the right way.”

You can, however, do one thing to help creativity today. That thing is as small as letting your team run small operations or creating situations where they don’t eat at their desk.

While that seems small, it could change more than you think.

Tags air cover, leadership, support

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Keep Your Blind Spots Clean -Get a Shadow Team

Post author By jrlsage
Post date September 12, 2016

People want to help: put them in position through giving

Everything except the most simple tasks needs a team.

We expect direct support, the kind of support from our boss or teammates.

However, we rarely account for the indirect support, those that come from people on adjacent teams and mentors.

Those people, who I like to call your shadow team, are the ones that keep your blind spots clean.

How do you create that team?

Give.

Give your time and energy to help those who don’t have to reciprocate.

That simple act, done honestly, creates a shadow team of people who have your back.

Problems are a lot easier to deal with when they never get to you.

Tags GIve, shadow team, support