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Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations
Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations is a 30-item assessment tool designed to help managers measure their skill in fostering innovation in their employees. Using the response key, participants are asked to read each statement carefully and decide to what extent they practice the behavior described. Below are 5 sample items taken from the participant booklet:
Response Key
| VGE |
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To a Very Great Extent |
| GE |
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To a Great Extent |
| ME |
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To a Moderate Extent |
| SE |
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To a Small Extent |
| VSE |
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To a Very Small Extent |
Sample Items
Sample item relating to "Inspiring Innovation":
Within an innovation, I let employees risk failure.
Sample item relating to "Building Systems to Support Innovation":
I create opportunities for work to occur outside the boundaries of employees' job descriptions.
Sample item relating to "Assessing Opportunities":
I teach employees to scan the environment by finding out what competitors are doing.
Sample item relating to "Creating Champions":
I ask at least one employee to be a project advocate to promote an innovation.
Sample item relating to "Launching the Innovation":
I probe employees on how to transfer their learnings into new opportunities.
Excerpted from Encouraging Innovation Through 5 Key Conversations
by Minor and Kung.
©1999 Marianne Minor and Jocelyn Kung |
