Session: Innovate or Evaporate: Leveraging Unique Staff Strengths and Developing Innovation Teams (NHPCO's 27th Management and Leadership Conference )

Thursday, March 29, 2012: 2:15 PM-3:15 PM

National Harbor 12 (Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center)

Primary Presenter:

Cathy Stauffer Wozniak, MPH, MBA

Area of Emphasis: Organizational Excellence
Learning Objectives:
1. Discuss how an awareness of our unique strengths and talents as team members can help us identify weaknesses and create greater team balance, integration and effectiveness
2. Define the five distinct innovation roles and distinguish the uniqueness of each
3. Assess and determine what is your most comfortable role in the team process
4. Formulate strategies that will help you work on a team and create, advance, refine and execute new ideas in the shortest period of time, increasing productivity and employee morale without jeopardizing quality,

This session is designed to provide guidance to executives and managers in actively nurturing innovative thinking, behavior and identifying effective roles for team members. Team success lies with understanding personalities, contributions and allowing open and respectful communication. Along with discussion and video about the dimensions of innovation, a self-assessment profile will be introduced and explored in groups to help participants find, integrate and execute ideas into work teams without causing organizational conflict or stress and/or stall team productivity.

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