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Hiring Innovation Teams
By Alison McMahon of
Let’s Talk About: Innovation Teams
Hiring for Innovation Managing for Innovation
Entrepreneurial Bureaucratic
Your Workplace
How you think your life should be
How life actually is
How you think innovation should be
How innovation actually is… Well, kind of
My point is…
Innovation still needs a
framework.
#InnovationTeams
Create
Test IdeasFail FastValidate
Act Now
Why do you want an innovation team?
What is the problem or opportunity?What is the business goal?
Tactical Questions: Who is going to be on the innovation team?
How much time should be spent on innovation?
How will you decide if an experiment is successful?
How will successful experiments be operationalized?
What happens when an experiment fails?
Who do you need on the team?
Critical Thinking
Create
Autonomy
Learning Curve
Self Manage Change
#NoComfortZonesAllowed
Squad Goals(skwäd/ɡōl) (noun) (plural noun: squad goals)
T-Swift’s Squad Goals Your Squad Goals
What qualities do you need on your innovation team?
AttitudeQualities Technical Skills
What are you managing?
Philosophy: Business goals should be transparent and aligned.
Philosophy: Integrate new employees in a way that maximizes the speed of trust.
Orientation: 5 meetings in 12 weeks
First day Week one Role expectationsMonth one Month three
Philosophy: People need to be accountable to innovation and daily tasks.
Performance Conversations:
Quarterly conversations Two things you’re exceling at Two things you can focus on
Goals check-in
Ready?!
Huzzah! We’re finished. Thanks for being awesome.
Alison McMahon CHRP, B.HRLR
