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Characteristics of A Leader

1) The document is from the Bukidnon State University Kalilangan Satellite Campus located in Central Poblacion, Kalilangan Bukidnon. 2) Leadership is key to an organization's success and good leaders develop good employees who create good products, but today's changing landscape makes planning difficult. 3) While most executives recognize the importance of innovation, few organizations are effective at it, so executives should look beyond traditional means and incorporate innovative leadership approaches.

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Characteristics of A Leader

1) The document is from the Bukidnon State University Kalilangan Satellite Campus located in Central Poblacion, Kalilangan Bukidnon. 2) Leadership is key to an organization's success and good leaders develop good employees who create good products, but today's changing landscape makes planning difficult. 3) While most executives recognize the importance of innovation, few organizations are effective at it, so executives should look beyond traditional means and incorporate innovative leadership approaches.

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BUKIDNON STATE UNIVERSITY

KALILANGAN SATELLITE CAMPUS


Central Poblacion, Kalilangan Bukidnon
www.buksu.edu.gov

How Leaders Can Drive Creativity in Their Organization


Leadership is the core of a business’ success. We generally peg companies to their
products, but it’s the leaders who drive those products out. Good leaders develop good
employees, who in turn, develop good products for the organization.

However, today’s landscape is constantly changing. Planning for the next quarter is a
challenge; committing to decisions that will play out in the next 5 years is even more
difficult. This is where innovation in leadership is key to transforming a company into a
success story.

The good news is that many executives recognize this, too. According to a research
report by the Center for Creative Leadership, 94% of 500 executives surveyed said that
innovation is very important for their organization. However, only 14% said that their
organization was effective at innovation.

While business-thinking in leadership is crucial, executives ought to look beyond traditional


means and explore the possibility of incorporating innovation leadership into their methods. This
school of thought can be divided into 2 components:

 Innovative approach to leadership: Bringing new thinking and different actions to how


executives lead, manage, and execute tasks. It has to do with asking yourself if the role and
challenges faced by both the executive and the organization can be thought about
differently.
 Leadership that drives innovation: Creating an environment where others can apply
innovative thinking to tackle issues and develop new ideas. It’s about growing a culture of
innovation.
While business-thinking is based on research, formulas, and facts, innovative thinking uses
ambiguity as an advantage to find new ways and explore various options. Here are 6 ways
leaders can develop innovative leadership thinking:

1. Pay attention. The ability to notice what has gone unnoticed is crucial. It’s about looking
beyond the surface of a situation and identifying new patterns. Paying attention starts with
slowing down – a notion many leaders are unfamiliar with – in order to be more deliberate
in understanding the situation.
2. Personalize. At work, the individual’s experience tends to be undervalued. For
innovative thinking, personalizing is a twofold process: tapping into our scope of
knowledge and experience, and understanding your customers on a personal, human level.
Although it might seem unrelated, personal experiences should be tapped on to introduce
fresh perspectives. Personalizing draws on your interests, hobbies, and insights, and applies
them to work. The customer side of personalizing is the capability to comprehend your
customers as humans and peers, and not simply patrons of your services or products. Deep
customer knowledge leads to new ideas, patterns, and understandings that drives
innovation.
3. Imaging. Did you know that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than
text? Words by themselves are typically insufficient for making sense of vast amounts of
information, and leaders looking to lead innovatively should leverage this fact. Pictures,
stories, and metaphors are great tools for constructing ideas and describing situations
effectively.
4. Serious play. Business-thinking and routine work can lead to a monotonous process.
Innovation requires bending some rules, and breaking some of the rigidness. When you
generate knowledge and perspectives through non-traditional ways — improvisation,
experimentation, levity, and rapid prototyping — it’s an opportunity for innovation to be
generated.
5. Collaborative inquiry. Innovation is a team sport, and not an epiphany from a single
person. It’s far more collaborative than we realize. Collaborative inquiry is a process of
sustained, effective dialogue with those who have a stake in the situation. Organizations
can use 4 steps in collaborative inquiries: exploring and clarifying ideas, ideating,
developing those ideas, and turning those ideas into concrete plans.
6. Crafting. Innovation requires us to shed ‘either/or thinking’ that’s ingrained in most of
us, and have the ability to hold 2 opposing ideas in the mind. Crafting is about synthesis,
integration, and possibility. Through what is called abductive reasoning, we are able to
make intuitive connections among what might be a mass of unrelated information, and
begin to find order in chaos.
Embracing the technique of innovation leadership is one step in producing a response to the
challenges organizations face today. Studies have shown that 20 -67% of the variance of
creativity in organizations is directly attributable to leadership behavior. This means that leaders
should cultivate and support organizational innovation through their words and actions.

Businesses everywhere are feeling the limitations of their traditional, standard procedures. The
added factors of digital disruption and widespread uncertainty have leaders looking for alternate
solutions to move forward. Innovative leadership is the solution to finding what’s new, what’s
better, and what’s next.

This piece — written by CCL’s Senior APAC

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