Approachability is an advantage. Making coaching easy is an advantage. This tool minimizes the effort to manage expectations, manage perceptions, and share helpful feedback across three communication channels.

Innovation professionals spend a lot of time in meetings. Rethink the relationship between meetings and “real work.” Have a firm grasp of the numerous ingredients of effective meetings.

Innovation should take inspiration from an expanded view of the Performing Arts - the Empathetic Arts. The world of innovation has much to learn, benefit, and profit from audience-centric collaboration that has a great employee experience.

A script is a simple, raw, unambiguous format to get the sequence of actions on paper, primed for a Future State Process Flow.

The big day! Showtime! Opening Night! Let your stakeholders know that the new experience is ready for them. The Go-Live Announcement fulfills the latter “A” in ADKAR.

Change is disruptive, so evangelize to stakeholders why your change is desirable, stylish, and cool. Formalize the “D” in ADKAR. Craft an Elevator Pitch to convey the benefits of the upcoming innovation.

Meetings are great opportunities for team members to build upon each others’ ideas. Meetings are critical for alignment. Know every trait of a good meeting in order to maximize them.

A highly competitive world leads to being self-absorbed and self-conscious. Hyper-competition undermines teamwork and collaboration. Improv practices help you commit to collaboration and co-creation. Join the world of “Yes, And.”

Don’t rely on HR to define and govern feedback. Own it. Conduct it yourself. Be approachable. Groom it in others. Isolate feedback into three communication channels: email etiquette, meeting etiquette, and deliverable contribution. Neutralize personality conflict. Ask and negotiate “What do you want me to do differently?”

Use Five Verbs to pace, synchronize, and assign building your project’s Asset Portfolio.

Facilitating meetings is a difficult job, which is why its so valuable and why Facilitation is a profession in itself. Skilled facilitation keeps morale, value, and alignment high.