a model of innovation
Age Diversity + Team Innovation = Competitive Edge
The Sloan Center on Aging & Work's Executive Innovation Lab collaborates with executives on project-based organizational learning and problem solving. Leveraging the insights of a multi-generation innovation team, executives participate in a joint university/practitioner experience to spark creativity and emotion—the catalysts to radical change.
Join with us to unleash the creative potentials of multi-generational teams.
BACKGROUND
the need
Thought leaders know that readiness for innovation is a key driver of success. But U.S. workplaces are in a paradoxical situation:
- On the one hand, most executives recognize that the age demographics of their workforces and customers have shifted radically. They are already seeing the profound impact this has (and will continue to have) on their marketing, the design and delivery of products and services, their modes and styles of communicating, and surely on the ways that work is accomplished.
- On the other hand, even though the demographic handwriting is on the wall, our studies show that relatively few firms have taken proactive steps to transform this awareness into action. Here’s where the latest research on the multi-gen workforce and marketplace, and the results of best practice studies, can speed progress.
the experience
Our Executive Innovation Lab will provide you a new approach to identifying innovative strategies to maximize business opportunities, address business problems, or both – an experience that could add significant value to your bottom line.
For executive champions, driven by opportunities for thought leadership and innovative process outcomes, we offer three, 1-day experiential, collaborative learning sessions for Executive Champions. Each Executive session will be supplemented by three Multi-generational Innovation Team sessions:
- Executive Champion Issue & Team Selection
- Orientation of Mulit-Generational Team to Lab
- Team Session 1: Age Diversity and the 21st Workplace
- Executive Champion Session I: Power of Age Diversity
- Team Session 2: Leveraging Team Effectiveness
- Executive Champion II: Multi-Generational Team Strategy
- Team Session 3: Innovation Success
- Executive Champion III: Innovation as the Competitive Advantage
Sessions will feature two expert facilitators in addition to guest experts leading provocative presentations and innovative idea discussions.
HOW LONG CAN YOU WAIT TO INNOVATE?
will you be the catalyst?
Driven by opportunities for thought leadership and innovative process outcomes, Executive Champions:
- scan for target problems/issues
- propel the innovation process
- lead effective multi-generational teamwork
- promote age diversity as a competitive advantage
who do you want on your team?
Multi-Generational Innovation Teams are composed of individual leaders:
- identifying unexpected factors
- engaging resources for innovation
- modeling effective multi-generational teamwork
- producing the sparks of creativity and emotion needed for radical change
where could you use innovation?
- What is an important issue for your business?
- Is change within your control?
- Is a deliverable possible in four months?