Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs by Bryan W. Mattimore

Author:Bryan W. Mattimore [Mattimore, Bryan W.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-08-28T14:00:00+00:00

Comfortable leading large teams and speaking in public

Previously identified as a high-potential, top talent manager

Willingness and ability to commit ten days over a six-week period

Geographically diverse group of facilitators for worldwide coverage

Experience or expertise in more than one ISC functional area

Conversant in ISC fundamentals, terminology, and strategy

A willingness to team with local senior business managers to deliver workshops

Once we had identified these creative evangelists, we brought them to IBM's headquarters in Somers, New York, for a two-and-a-half-day train-the-trainer program. Our agenda included speeches by ISC's senior leaders to inspire our evangelists and help them understand how critically important their role would be in helping to build ISC's culture. Even more critical was teaching them how to facilitate their coworkers in reframing and rethinking their jobs within the context of ISC's strategic priorities. Because we knew that whatever we had the creative evangelists facilitate in their four-hour session would also have to be repeated in a simpler and shorter two-hour session for all the remaining ISC employees, we tried to keep our process simple. Ultimately we decided on a straightforward three-step process: envisioning the ISC future, barriers to this new future state, and cross-functional problem solving.

As workshop participants began envisioning the ISC future, we said to them, “Given the four strategic imperatives, imagine what ISC's ideal future might look like.” And then to begin the process of helping each employee personalize this vision, we asked, “How would your world be different based on this new, ideal way of looking at the ISC?”

Next, we had the workshop participants work in table teams to identify some of the barriers to achieving this future state. And finally, we asked them to generate some cross-functional initiatives to overcome these barriers. Table teams were asked to be specific about these topics:

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