One person can make a difference. But we live in a world of work groups and innovation teams. This interactive program provides teams and leaders with the skills, attitudes and tools to work together more innovatively, with a dramatic reduction in non-productive communication. By teaching a cycle based on key internal leadership themes (from the book, More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovation Teams), this session helps individuals develop the behaviors necessary to make a positive contribution to the organization. The focus on the individual responsibilities helps participants return to work energized, more creative, and better able to communicate get things done.
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Jonathan Vehar is a Senior Partner at New & Improved, an organizational development firm focused on the people skills for innovation. Organizations that have benefited from his expertise include: Disney; GE; Johnson & Johnson; McDonalds; Pfizer; Texas Instruments; and the US Departments of Homeland Security and the EPA. Investor’s Business Daily calls Jonathan an “Innovation Guru” and he has written extensively about innovation and creative thinking. His latest book, co-authored with Bob Eckert, is entitled, “More Lightning, Less Thunder: How to Energize Innovative Teams.” As a speaker and seminar leader, Jonathan has presented creativity programs to tens of thousands of people, primarily in The Americas.
Bob Eckert For the last 15 years, Bob has worked primarily with governments and large transnationals to foster increased innovation in their cultures, people, leadership practices, products, services and processes. A very diverse background over the last 30 years has been instrumental in training him to work in a wide range of settings with sticky, complex dynamics. Essentially, his craft is helping people be more effective in their work and lives via whatever method works. Psychotherapist, Neuropharmacology trainer, wilderness guide, manufacturing facility owner, retail manager, tree farmer, innovation specialist, husband and dad. Bob is a Senior Partner at New & Improved, LLC. |
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