006: Innovation Dream Teams: The Secret Formula to Drive Team Success - a podcast by Drew Boyd

Does your organization struggle with generating better ideas? Unfortunately, the traditional brainstorming approach doesn't work. 

Innovation is a team sport. You're going to get better and richer innovation when colleagues and other support people around you are involved in generating novel ideas. 

But what types of people should make up your winning team?

In today’s episode, learn how to create innovation dream teams in a systematic way. So that whenever you want to generate ideas, you already know the basic elements needed in pulling together a special combination of talents in the room – and that’s where the magic happens!

In this episode you’ll hear:

1. Steps in creating your ideal innovation team
2. Roles in an innovation dream team
3. The different types of diversity to consider
4. Breaking down functional diversity into 3 parts
5. Why gender diversity is important
6. Why you need to break bigger groups into smaller ones

Resources from this episode:

Group Genius by Keith Sawyer

https://www.amazon.com/Group-Genius-Creative-Power-Collaboration/dp/0465096638

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Episode Credits

If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment.

He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, coaches, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world.

Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com

 

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