Champion of Innovation and Change

In this seminar, I introduce you to the use of a framework for leading innovation and change – and more specifically, a framework for strengthening your bonds with your team members, your partners, and the many others in your group upon whose energies and enthusiasm you will rely as you champion the innovations that are of significance to your community. As you strengthen those bonds, you will strengthen your capacity to engage the members of your community to serve and to act as you and they work collectively to pursue your worthy goals.

I begin this seminar by examining your philosophy and approach to sharing decision-making, and I offer you a framework to help you clarify it or fortify it – both for yourself and for the people you lead. It is my belief that one of the primary ways we build bonds and engage the people around us is to give them greater individual ownership and responsibility for making decisions, taking action and following through.

The framework for leading innovation and change is a tool with dual purposes:

First, it is a tool for personal reflection to help you engage your own enthusiasm and dedication to champion the initiatives or changes you deem important.

Second, it is a tool to help you diagnose, plan, and communicate with the members of your team or group. During the course of the seminar, you will have the opportunity to apply the framework to a current initiative or change that you think needs to occur in your environment, and develop clearly defined options for your own next steps and the next steps of your partners. The application of the framework will compel you to rigorously and thoroughly explain the context for the change, provide a detailed view of the future that you envision when the change is in place, and to articulate the immediate commitments that you will both make and ask your team or group to make in moving your initiative forward.

Finally, the framework is designed for you to use as a tool to prompt deliberative conversation, distribute ownership and collaborate. It is our hope that you will use it to build stronger relationships with your partners by engaging them in exchanging ideas, sharing ownership, taking responsibility for success, and committing to act collectively to making meaningful contributions in the world around you.

Outcomes of Champion of Innovation and Change

You, as a participant, will learn an interactive framework to:

Engage your own enthusiasm and dedicate yourself to lead innovation and change
Diagnose and anticipate obstacles, and plan the actions that you will need to take to champion the innovation or change
Strengthen relationships and engage the enthusiasm of other members of your group or community to participate, serve, act and contribute to successful implementation
Communicate with others in ways that both allow them to understand and invite them to care about the innovation and change