Elements and Performance Criteria
- Generate innovative thinking and creativity
- 1.1 Research trends and conditions shaping organisation's current and future thinking and practice.
- Evaluate drivers, enablers and issues that impact on individual and collective innovative thinking and creativity.
- Introduce techniques and tools that foster and promote creative thinking, new ideas and innovative knowledge transfer.
- Establish an environment conducive to innovative thinking and creativity
- Lead innovative practices
- Develop and refine a transformational leadership style to set new direction and sell the adoption of innovative practices.
- Initiate and promote innovative practices, processes and products appropriate to organisational mission and business philosophy.
- Identify, evaluate and manage risks associated with encouraging innovation across the organisation.
- Establish conditions necessary for others to implement and manage innovative practices.
- Generate and support a culture of innovation
- Inspire and motivate others to strive for innovative achievement
- Establish the conditions necessary to empower others and effect change
- Encourage, develop and shape cultural beliefs, norms and behaviours that support open sharing of innovative ideas and practices
- Devise and execute organisational strategies that foster a workplace philosophy of innovation.