THE ARGUMENT: …INNOVATION IS EMOTIONAL…forbes magazine

According to innovation Guru Tim Brown, whose design firm was recently named by Fast Company as the 5th most innovative company in the world, the design of innovative processes and products requires a more “human-centered” approach than traditional R&D methods incorporate.

KH Kim, a professor of Creativity and Innovation at the College of William & Mary, comments in her article “The Creative Crisis in America”; “Innovators experience deep emotions, are sensitive to the environment, and are emotionally expressive. Emotions affect creativity often more than cognitive or other rational factors and are found in all creative endeavors including science and arts.”.

According to a forbes research, innovation requires skills such as empathy, optimism and collaboration. In other words, it requires emotional intelligence skills. The reason, Brown argues, is that a skill like empathy allows us to see things from the perspective of many different kinds of people, which is a key ingredient for creating a consumer product or redesigning a people-driven process. The increased complexity of today’s products and processes mandates interdisciplinary collaboration.

Limiting Emotional intelligence to a relationship management skill is a distraction from one of the greatest pathways to potent business transformation solutions.

Emotions are the secret sauce of innovation… Forbes Magazine

“Leveraging emotions to get more powered innovation is like being able to harness an underestimated and sustainable source of energy. What is stopping you?”…innovation copilots”

Do you want to an empowered An undiluted pathway to INTENTIONALLY crafting INNOVATION awaits participants of the 2020 Africa Emotional intelligence Conference.

DISRUPT or BE DISRUPTED

Being a disruptor helps you mitigate the adverse effect of disruption in your industry.

Large companies have the resources and the name recognition that attract top talent, but many of them strive to maintain the status quo. Their focus is external — looking at how they can respond to what their competitors are doing, but it should be internal — highlighting how they can empower their employees to find the next “big idea.

Delliote’s recent research reveals that “cultivating emotional fortitude” is a key characteristic to disrupting and surviving disruption.

• How do you positively embrace the fear of the rapidly changing business landscape to fuel more productive outcomes?
• How do you develop emotional fortitude as a potent tool for responding to the leader’s “innovator’s dilemma”?
• How do you relate with your deep emotional “convictions” that seem to conflict with your business direction?
• How do you plough emotions in disrupting your customer experience and creating a deep wowing experience for your customers?
• How do you develop grounded audacity in the face of continuously intensifying complexities?
• What is your emotional relationship with mistakes and how does it aid teams innovative and disruptive tendencies?
• What is the secret to sustaining healthy ego that pushes ingenuity and balances psychological safety to breed an innovating and disrupting culture in teams and organizations?
• How do you work with people in complex innovating and disruption-oriented projects?
• How do you tap into your spiritual intelligence to improve your intuition and guts in relation to innovating and disrupting demands?

To find answers to the above questions and more, join global subject matter experts at the 2020 Africa Emotional Intelligence Conference to immerse yourself in the world of emotions, emotional intelligence, innovation and disruption conversations and chart a new path in your quest for profitable change and transformation

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