Building a Learning Culture for Disruptive Innovation and Agility
Legacy companies face a stark choice in today's VUCA world: disrupt or be disrupted. That is, disrupt yourself and learn to become an innovation powerhouse -- or continue to be disrupted by nimbler and faster-moving startups. But building the capacity for disruptive innovation and agility is a complex systemic challenge that goes far beyond copying best practices or attending a design thinking workshop. It requires carefully orchestrated changes in the strategizing processes, leadership, organization design, and most importantly, your people's mindsets -- how employees think, engage with customers, and work together toward extraordinary customer and business outcomes.
Drawing on the wisdom, successes, and failures of innovation juggernauts such as Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Clorox, Airbnb, and Google, the participants will learn how to build the capacity for continuous learning, disruptive innovation, and agility at every level of the company.
THE PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN HOW TO:
Build a culture of continuous, self-directed learning that results in greater innovation, agility, and business growth
Distribute leadership and decision-making that engage every employee to grow and contribute their best self at work
Make innovation the responsibility of everyone rather than select few, and build a robust pipeline of disruptive ideas
Leverage customer-driven innovation, learning, and agile execution to ignite a sense of purpose, collaboration, and extraordinary contribution in everyone
WHO IS IT FOR?
Business leaders, HR leaders, learning professionals, and change champions charged with leading change in their organizations, especially in the arenas of innovation, learning, engagement, and agility.
The workshop is highly interactive and includes practical design frameworks, hands-on work in breakouts (individually and/or with others), collective reflections to upgrade thinking and ideas, and ultimately the creation of a plan that can be implemented “back at home”.
About Max Shkud
As a consulting change-leader for T-Mobile, Airbnb, HP, and Royal Bank of Scotland, Max co-led division-wide initiatives that focused on business transformation, innovative organization design, and leadership development. Max brings extensive experience in organizational change, hi-tech management, and software product development.
Today, he serves as an integral part of Microsoft's courageous journey of business transformation, cultural renewal, and management reinvention. As part of this transformation, Max is responsible for shaping the learning strategy, designing people development programs, and leading organization change initiatives for over 2,700 Microsoft employees in the Bay Area.