
Every innovator will face challenges. Your ability to overcome those challenges will be vital to your success. In this brief lecture I share a tried and tested process for overcoming issues on your innovation journey.
Clarify your vision and purpose to drive sustainable innovation, align teams, and prioritize actions as a guiding northern star toward meaningful impact beyond profit.
Develop an innovation mindset by asking great questions, listening with humility, and using Hal Gregersen's question bursts to unlock insights, define challenges, and invite external perspectives.
Cultivate optimism with four tips from positive psychology (Martin Seligman), focusing on daily beauty, process over outcomes, learning from failures, and the impermanence of negativity to boost well-being.
Explore frugal innovation through real-world cases like M-Pesa, the NHS, and Selco, showing how simple, resourceful solutions solve big problems by understanding users, financing, and existing technologies.
Leverage diverse networks to sustain momentum and maximize innovation success through collaboration and frugal resource use.
Grow your network through two-way collaboration by helping others, asking questions, and building trust with logic, empathy, and authenticity, while seeking diverse perspectives and balancing skills.
Apply four hints to avoid escalation: set success and failure parameters, focus on the goal not ego, seek simple clarity, and shift decision making to less invested stakeholders.
Grit, defined as passion and perseverance toward long-term goals, drives sustained effort through setbacks, while resilience grows with experience, helping innovators stay determined and optimistic.
Do you have lots of great ideas that you want to get off the ground? Successful innovations are introduced by people like you, who've learned how to harness the power of psychology so they can act in ways that produce brilliant innovations and help you build a more positive mindset. This course will teach you the tools to think and act much more like the world's most successful innovators.
By the end of this course you'll:
understand how to create the context for generating great ideas and how to find solutions to your most vexing challenges;
learn how to assess the value of your ideas;
learn how to clarify your vision (and why having a vision is important!);
develop the skills you need to pilot your ideas and seek feedback to ensure you're connected to our users and customers;
learn how to ask great questions which will allow you to connect with others and build knowledge, learning and creativity;
learn how to create psychological safety – the foundation of thriving innovative cultures;
understand the importance of self-awareness and how to build it;
understand the concept of ‘frugal innovation’ and how to do more with less;
explore why privilege needn’t be a prerequisite for success - stories of some of the worlds greatest innovators who achieve success on a small budget.
learn the skills you'll need to collaborate and network effectively;
understand how to identify and allocate vital roles and responsibilities;
learn how to assess and negate risk as you build your ideas;
learn how to develop greater GRIT and motivation to overcome obstacles and achieve your greatest ambitions.
This course is presented by Dr Amy Redmond. Enhancing innovation potential and helping people to thrive has been the central focus of Amy’s career and academic research. She is an executive coach, business psychologist and Director of Innovation and Psychology at a London-based innovation agency with a PhD in the Psychology of Innovation. Amy sees the very best in people and her purpose is to help people to see and believe the best in themselves, reminding them of their value and helping them to achieve the psychological tools they need to thrive.