HOW TO UNLOCK YOUR EMPLOYEES' PERFORMANCE POTENTIAL

Traditionally, management worked as a hierarchy, with information distributed from the top down. In this model, employees looked upwards, deferred to authority and aspired towards promotion; they also had fixed job descriptions to which they conformed. In today’s organization, the nature of people’s roles and responsibilities has dramatically changed, and workers need to be more adaptive to a fluid economy and constantly changing environment.

The new world is a networked world where the linear career path is long gone; instead we are faced with a career helter-skelter. It is highly likely that most roles that are in any way repetitive will be replaced by machines or robots in the near future. Our most important assets are therefore our minds and our human potential.

SIX PRINCIPLES TO BUILD INNOVATION CAPACITY

Innovation is no longer optional for organizations. In the face of constant pressures, growing demand, and a quickening pace of change, all organizations need to build innovation-ready cultures. However, what does it take to build innovation capacity, and how leaders set the right conditions for innovation to flourish? Polina Makievsky, an expert in change management and leadership, describes six ways to tackle old challenges in new ways and moving to action on innovation: