Institute for Management Studies: The Idea-Driven Organization:
Tapping Employee Ideas to Improve Performance
This seminar will show you how the best managers and organizations
encourage, collect and implement large numbers of employee ideas.
It will show you the principles involved, the benefits you can
expect, and the pitfalls you could meet along the way and how to
avoid them. Front-line ideas are a powerful engine that can help
you attain performance excellence and generate sustainable
competitive advantage. The best leading indicator of your unit’s
future performance is the number of implemented ideas you are
getting right now.
Topics Include:
• How tapping your people's ideas will transform your group's or
organization's culture
• Examples of high-performing idea systems and their impact on
people and the bottom line Facts Any Manager Should Know About
Creativity and Ideas
• Why in high performing idea systems 80 percent of the overall
improvement comes from the front-line ideas, and only 20 percent
from management-initiated projects
• What the research says: How can you tell which of your employees
will be creative?
• What does an idea-driven team look like, and how does it
work?
• How to run a good idea system in your area of
responsibility
• How to create competitive advantage through employee ideas that
your competitors can’t copy
• Why small ideas are often more valuable than big ones
• How to turn small ideas into big ones
• How to avoid the common pitfalls in the way people are rewarded
for their ideas
About the Speaker:
Dr Alan Robinson, co-author of Corporate Creativity and Ideas
Are Free, is one of the foremost experts in the world on
managing ideas, creativity and innovation. His books have been
translated into seventeen languages. A sought-after speaker,
educator, and consultant, he has helped more than a hundred
organizations in fifteen countries. He is currently a professor at
the Isenberg School of Management at the University of
Massachusetts.
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Time: 9 AM - 4 PM
Location:
The Cornell Club - 6 East 44th Street - NYC
Cost: $385.00*
*Institute for Management Studies
St. John’s has a membership with the Institute for Management
Studies (IMS). This means that you will now have easy access
to a variety of management and professional development topics
beyond our standard curriculum. As an added benefit, we will give
one complimentary seat for each NYC session, on a first come, first
served basis (note: one complimentary seat per person, per year.)
See enrollment policy below.
Enrollment Policy Note:
There is a cost associated with IMS programs. Please ensure your
full commitment to attend before enrolling in an IMS program,
including your supervisor’s approval and coverage in your absence.
IMS retains a minimal number of seats for St. John's University
participants, and it is important that anyone who enrolls is
committed to attending as there is significant cost to the
University for last-minute cancellations.
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