Elements and Performance Criteria
- Generate innovative thinking and creativity
- Research and use a range of techniques and tools to generate new ideas and thinking
- Research and analyse trends shaping organisation’s current and future thinking and practice
- Introduce and promote creative thinking techniques to foster personal and team innovation
- Evaluate overall context for individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity
- Research and analyse specific conditions for innovation and issues that impact on individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity
- Research and review innovation drivers and enablers
- Lead innovative practices
- Develop personal leadership style to model positive innovative thinking and practice
- Review, challenge and refine own style and practice in relation to modelling and supporting innovation
- Assess and determine the requirements to promote sustainable innovative activity for the operational context and people involved
- Devise and implement most appropriate means to promote knowledge transfer
- Identify, evaluate and manage risks associated with innovation within an organisation
- Generate and support a culture of innovation
- Introduce and promote innovative practices, processes, products or services appropriate to audience and organisational requirements
- Establish ways to capture, communicate and share innovative ideas and practices
- Initiate and foster communication, consultation and team development approaches that support innovation
- Identify, assess and provide adequate resources for innovation to occur
- Develop and apply strategies to foster a workplace culture capable of encouraging innovation
- Establish mechanisms at system and process level that can support innovation
- Sustain innovative thinking and practice
- Develop strategies to make innovation an integral part of organisational activity
- Develop and monitor processes to ensure ongoing awareness of individual and collective contributions to innovative thinking and practice
- Analyse potential barriers and risks to innovation and devise strategies to respond
- Analyse and reflect on innovation performance as a basis for developing strategies for improvement