Innovation. It's the heartbeat of today's economy. It's also where you as a CRE professional need to focus your attention, time and resources to compete in today's marketplace. Is innovation a talent from birth or something that can be learned and acquired? Good news...you can be more innovative and creative. You can change your behaviors and adopt critical innovative strategies. Innovators think and act differently. They don't follow the status quo. What are the traits of today's innovative professionals? How do they think and behave? Why don't they let traditional rules and the status quo stand in the way of their vision? What questions benchmark their thinking? What are the skills needed for innovative thinking and behaviors? Don't miss this sneak peek into CoreNet Global Summit Orlando's Innovation Lab (October 9, 9:30 – 11:00 and 11:30 – 12:30). After attending this webinar, the participant will be able to: Identify common traits of today's innovators. List four behaviors to adopt to create more innovation. Explore idea networks for diversity and innovation.

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9. Born with ability
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11. Individualism & merit
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12. Innovators can be made & not
just born that way
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13. Innovation starts with you
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15. Questioning
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16. Questioning
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17. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
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18. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
What is?
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19. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
What is?
What if ?
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20. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
What is?
What if ?
What caused this to happen?
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21. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
What is?
What if ?
What caused this to happen?
Why?
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22. Gain understanding & empathy
Questioning
What is?
What if ?
What caused this to happen?
Why?
Why not?
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23. Your Turn
What do we need to do to
encourage more questioning?
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25. Observe customers & watch for
workarounds
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26. Observe customers & watch for
workarounds
Look for surprises; customers
don’t behave as expected
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27. Observe customers & watch for
workarounds
Look for surprises; customers
don’t behave as expected
Why did they do that?
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28. Observe customers & watch for
workarounds
Look for surprises; customers
don’t behave as expected
Why did they do that?
Observe with all senses
Power of three
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29. Your Turn
How can we observe our
coworkers and customers
more?
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31. Your Turn
What is networking?
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32. Linking ideas in your
area with ideas of others
who play in different
Sandboxes, outside your
typical sphere
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33. We typically network for
Resources
Further Careers
Jobs
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34. During networking we target
People like us
People with resources, power
authority, influence
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35. Innovators network for
Ideas
Learning new things
Gain new perspectives
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36. In networking innovators target
People not like them
Experts & non-experts w/
different backgrounds &
perspectives
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37. Innovators create
Idea Networks
Look for diversity & innovation
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38. How does this type of networking
--Looking for diversity &
innovation--
impact our planning for
traditional networking?
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39. Your Turn
What are some ways we can
encourage “idea networking”
for our companies?
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40. Experimenting
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41. Experimenting
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42. Questioning, observing
Experimenting
networking provide
data about past and
present. Experimenting
gives data about future.
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43. A. Try New Experiences
Experimenting
Cross borders
Try new foods
Develop new skills
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44. B. Take apart processes, services
Experimenting
products
Deconstruct ideas
Map processes
Disassemble a process
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45. C. Test New Ideas
Experimenting
Pilot a project
Launch a new initiative
25%-30% experiment
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46. 4 Behaviors
1. Questioning
2. Observing
3. Experimenting
4. Networking
Which do you need to
work on?
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47. Associating
Associating or Associational
Thinking
1. Create odd combinations
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48. Associating
Associating or Associational
Thinking
1. Create odd combinations
2. Zoom in & zoom out
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49. Associating
Associating or Associational
Thinking
1. Create odd combinations
2. Zoom in & zoom out
3. Lego Thinking
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50. Associating
Associating or Associational
Thinking
1. Create odd combinations
2. Zoom in & zoom out
3. Lego Thinking
4. Create metaphors
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53. Jeff Hurt
jhurt@velvetchainsaw.com
velvetchainsaw.com
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