186: Cognitive Diversity — How to Build Whole Brain® Teams with Ann Herrmann-Nehdi

186: Cognitive Diversity — How to Build Whole Brain® Teams with Ann Herrmann-Nehdi

Everyone on your team works differently because they think differently. As a leader, it is important that you boost communication, innovation, and creativity in a way that plays to the strengths of each individual on your team. Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, Chief Thought Leader and Chair of the Board at Herrmann, returns to The TalentGrow Show to explain how The Whole Brain® Model, a time-tested framework, can be used to decode and harness the cognitive diversity of individuals, teams, and organizations. Discover how to hack your natural biases and blindspots by becoming an agile thinker and get actionable tips and stories that will help you leverage cognitive diversity in your team. Plus, find out how Ann’s ideas apply to the workplace of the future! Tune in and be sure to share this episode with others in your network.

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166: How Network Analysis Can Improve Your Collaborative Process and Prevent Burnout with Rob Cross

166: How Network Analysis Can Improve Your Collaborative Process and Prevent Burnout with Rob Cross

Have you considered that too much collaboration could be causing the high performers on your team to suffer? ‘Collaborative overload’ is a real problem in the workplace, and it tends to affect the best employees and leaders the most. On this episode of The TalentGrow Show, professor and consultant Rob Cross joins Halelly to discuss how to leverage network analysis to create collaboratively efficient networks and improve your collaborative process. You’ll learn the steps leaders can take to implement network analysis in our organizations, how to avoid overloading high-performers or ‘energizers’ by being more strategic about collaboration, and how to leverage what Rob calls ‘second tier connectors’ for maximum collaborative efficiency. Plus, find out how creating more collaboratively efficient networks to buy back one day a week of your time and be happier! Listen and be sure to share this episode with others.

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124: Disrupt It Yourself – Encouraging Intrapreneurship and Innovation In Your Organization with Simone Ahuja

124: Disrupt It Yourself – Encouraging Intrapreneurship and Innovation In Your Organization with Simone Ahuja

Leaders are constantly faced with the challenge of encouraging innovation and leveraging the highest potential of their team. However, it isn’t always easy to know when and where it is appropriate to call for change within an organization, nor how to cultivate intrapreneurship in your team. On this episode of The TalentGrow Show, Halelly chats with author and Fortune 500 consultant Simone Ahuja to get her powerful perspective on leadership and intrapreneurship. Advocating enterprise-wide transformation through small steps and experiments, Simone shares actions that leaders can take at any level of an organization to encourage innovation. You’ll learn why intrapreneurship is so valuable yet such a challenge in large companies, which emerging trends are making an impact on innovation, and what structures you can put into place to leverage your team’s creativity and potential. Plus, learn the important distinction that Simone sums up as ‘being a navy seal or being a pirate!’ Listen and don’t forget to share with others in your network.

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72: Why culture starts with YOU and this Creativity Doctor's prescription for out-innovating startups with Yoram Solomon

72: Why culture starts with YOU and this Creativity Doctor's prescription for out-innovating startups with Yoram Solomon

Why don’t we typically find the fresh, exciting, and innovative culture of startups in larger corporations? “Creativity Doctor” Yoram Solomon has identified the major innovation- and productivity-killers in America’s corporate culture, and offers solutions that could make large corporations out-innovate even startups. In episode 72 of The TalentGrow Show, Halelly chats with Yoram about culture, what he thinks both employees and management can do to take control of it, and what practices (including his “trust formula”) can help promote creativity in the workplace. Plus, find out why Yoram thinks political correctness is actually killing innovation! Listen, enjoy, and please share!

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Ep064: Adapting to disruptive innovation and exponential change with Frode Odegard

Ep064: Adapting to disruptive innovation and exponential change with Frode Odegard

Success in our ever-changing, turbulent times not only hinges on successfully adapting to things as they are, but correctly anticipating change. This is the understanding that drives my guest Frode Odegard, thought leader in disruptive innovation and author of Post-Lean Thinking: A New Vision for Corporate Innovation, to help leaders and organizations stay on the cutting edge of history. In this truly eye-opening episode of the TalentGrow Show with Halelly Azulay, Frode shares his vision of human economic change from the Stone Age to the Industrial Age and explains what he believes are some of the most important factors defining our current transition into what he calls a Post-Industrial Civilization. Listen now to learn what he means by the “cycle of disruption”, what are the two trends he was able to reduce 12,000 years of human economic history down to, how the relationship between corporations and employees is changing, why leaders need to focus on recruiting “makers”, and so much more!

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