Learning, Innovation, and Creativity in Organizations

Hi,

my name is Tatum Treasure and I am going to

be talking about learning innovation and creativity and organizations.

I'm excited to talk what I've learned about

from research that I've done and also from things

that I've learned from this class this semester.

So let's get started

jumping right in. We're going to talk about what is learning in an organization.

A quote that I found from our textbook reads,

learning may be defined for our purposes as a relatively permanent

change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience.

I like that.

This quote talked about change and how that we need

to permanently change our behavior if we want to continue to

learn and grow as we move forward with the jobs

that were in or the organizations that we work for.

Another quote reads learning in the flow of work is a new idea.

It recognizes that for learning to really happen,

it must fit around and align itself to working days and

working lives rather than think of corporate learning as a destination.

It's now becoming something that comes to us.

So learning is not just a destination,

it's something that we're always continuing to move forward in.

We might reach a destination or a goal that we've had,

but then you're going to continue to move forward with more things we want

to learn and how it's going to catapult us into the next set of

um,

maybe another set of jobs that we have or other places that

we're going to work and help the organizations that were in.

I wanted to share a personal experience that I had as I worked for in and out,

I was there for three years and learning is at the heart of the company, it's,

they want to encourage their associates to move up

in the company and so they apply quick checks,

which then within those quick checks are to learn list.

And so as you're promoted, you're going to

be watched by a trainer or someone that's above you and they're going to

give you a quick check on what things that you've learned from that list.

And then as you continue, you'll have multiple,

multiple quick checks and you're going to continue to

check off those boxes in those to learn list.

Um, and that there's a lot of training involved,

but there's also incentives and positive affirmations of as

you learn from your peers and your superiors.

This next slide is still talking about learning

but specific specifically how do you foster learning?

We need to be aware and be present.

Not just to go in and check the boxes and what I mean by

this is when you go into your job to be aware of your surroundings,

be aware of the people that you're working with and be present,

taking what they're doing and apply it to your learning,

not just checking the boxes and having that mundane attitude.

There's a quote that reads, There are many benefits to this.

One of which is increased ability to learn and develop.

So as we're taking into going in and being aware and being present. Were

taking that ability to have an increased learning um

sense and drive and we're developing that skill.

We also should ask for feedback to learn more about the people were working with

and the specific job then they might be in or

what job we're in and to go above and beyond.

A tip that I had was to create your own to learn list

to be observant on specific things that you want to

learn to write it down and then these can be in

your own job or another job that you want to

explore within the company that you're working for or something.

A career that you're working for

this quote reads, write down a list of concepts, thoughts,

practices and vocabulary.

You want to explore, bookmark them in your browser and add them to your list.

This is a good good advice because as we sometimes we forget

to write things down where we want to we remember that we

want to learn something from someone but then we forget about writing

it down and so then we don't ever learn it from them.

So as we write things down that we want to learn to help us progress,

it's going to help us be more aware of what we can continue to do to be good at our jobs.

The last thing that I wanted to say was this

vicarious learning is learning that takes place

through observation and imitation of others.

Learning is influenced by one, a motivation to learn to knowledge of results.

Three prior learning for the extent of which the task can be learned

is presented as a whole or in parts and five distribution of practice.

And so just a recap of that.

We are coming in with a motivation to learn.

We have, we're taking knowledge from those results,

but then we're also taking the prior learning that we've had,

we're applying it to what we're learning now

and we're also,

excuse me, we're also

taking that of what is being presented in a whole or in part,

so we might be breaking it down or we're catching on and we're taking it as a whole

and then we're practicing it and we're just going

to keep doing that over and over again.

Let's move on. So we're going to talk about innovation in an organization,

let's read this quote,

encouraging workplace innovation not only helps companies stay on

top of the market and defend their bottom lines.

Innovative workplaces are also happier workplaces with consistently

higher levels of employee satisfaction and retention.

So letting employees create new processes from their ideas,

it's going to make people feel more empowered

and it creates an attitude of employee satisfaction,

then creating retention within the company or the organization

and that's exactly what you want with innovation,

you want them to be open to giving their ideas and then when they're open,

they feel like they're involved and they're appreciated.

Google is very, very good at this. They have a very

um innovative employee driven company

and so they're flexible.

They have small, innovative teams,

simplified decision making and it's rooted into their culture of the company.

The key ingredients of the successful

innovative strategy of google are cultivation

and building up strong innovation spirit and behavior into employees culture.

This is very important and you've seen that it's worked.

Google has progressed immensely as they are still a fairly young company.

And so how do we foster innovation?

This is a key technique to encourage workplace innovation,

empower your employees to think about the tough

problems and reward staff for working towards solutions.

That's a key thing to do is to

give these tasks for employees to allow them to

critically think about things but to also have an incentive

at the end of the tunnel because they want

to be rewarded for the things that they're doing.

I have this thought come into my head of how

do you feel when you're given the opportunity to innovate.

So I worked for a company that only started a couple of years

ago and my employer is very good about encouraging innovation as he wants

to explore the possibility of having his company to continue to grow.

He only has a few employees,

but all of us work together and we're constantly innovating of how

his company can do better and the things that we're already doing

to be truly innovative. Your employees need some skin in the game.

They shouldn't think about innovation or something

for a senior management to think about.

Instead innovation should be part of everybody's job description

in and out made this very clear as there were incentives and

as we were continuing to move forward and push yourself to move up

into the company with each promotion was a raise and so you

wanted to continue to get promotion so that you get paid more.

The next thing we're going to talk about is creativity in an organization.

The verdict is in creativity is extremely important to

businesses from greater revenue to dealing with change.

The benefits of creativity are better understood every day.

It's extremely important, like they said, to have um creativity within a business.

This quote continues to talk about it by saying

no matter what procedures you have in place,

it's only the creative confidence and drive of individuals and the

collective intelligence of teams that takes companies to new frontiers,

revealing a better world and boosting an organization's bottom line performance.

And so creativity empowers employees to work harder

and to bring their talents to the table

and encourages critical thinking and also innovative

ideas as they work hand in hand,

overcoming constraints that you might be facing in your

day to day processes at a job and then,

but taking those constraints and finding a better

way to do things that's already being done.

This last quote that reads employees who find inspiration

in the workplace and even in remote work locations,

have a habit of being more productive and happier.

I've seen this in my own jobs when I am pushed to work creatively

um and things that I'm already doing and to change things and make a

doing something faster.

Um, I'm happier because I'm doing better and I'm working harder.

Let's skip to the, let's go to the next slide.

It's about creativity and how we were able to foster it.

Cultivating creativity requires a conscious effort by employers,

employees alike and a workplace culture that gives

people the license in time to be creative.

Let's talk about the license in time to be creative because we want to cultivate

this into a workplace and so we can give employees space and time for brainstorming.

And we're also giving them a voice recognition.

We want to increase diversity and that's done when

you're bringing in more creativity as well build teams,

encouraging change to something that's already been done

and maybe even providing incentives and perks.

I wanted to talk about working at a hospital

when you work or even when you go into a hospital,

you see how much things have changed,

whether it's their technology or multiple procedures that they

have and that there's a different ways to do it

on different medication,

hospitals are constantly trying to find new innovative ways

to grow and that is fostered with creativity.

And so when they bring in these focus groups or different

ways for different teams that they have to help their hospitals,

they're finding new creative ways to help

have less invasive surgeries or different ways to treat people.

Um, and we've seen how efficient that has been over the years

as well in and out. It has different certain

procedures for food preparation in my experience.

But I am following these procedures,

but I was always finding ways to make them faster and more

efficient because I wanted to move on to the next task.

I didn't always want to be cutting onions.

And so I wanted to get that done as quickly as I could in an efficient way

as an added benefit.

The more you encourage and support creative thinking in your company,

the more it becomes an essential part of your company culture and

an attractive prospect for future employees who want to be an employer

that values individuality and welcomes ideas for people

for everyone. Excuse me,

Let's go on to the next slide.

I wanted to just briefly talk about diversity and

this comes this quote comes straight from the book.

It reads teams from diverse backgrounds,

produce multiple points of view which can lead to innovative ideas,

different perspectives lead to a greater number of choices

to select from addressing a problem or an issue.

Life experience varies from person to person sometimes based on rage.

excuse me, race, age or sex, creativity has the opportunity to flourish.

When those experiences are shared,

diverse teams not only produce more alternatives but generate a broader range

of perspectives to address. Task and problems,

diverse group membership prevents groupthink because individuals

from varied backgrounds with different values,

attitudes and beliefs can test the assumptions

and reasoning of group members ideas.

This is a great quote because diversity goes along with

all of the things that we've talked about and how

people are able to bring lots of things to the

table based on what they've learned in their life,

the values or standards that they have.

And then the last thing I was going to say about this was men versus women.

My dad brought up a great point within his workplace that I

has a mixture of men and women that are under his leadership

and how men are very focused on getting it done while women

have a little bit more of a detail oriented focus on projects.

And so when you bring the two together,

you're able to foster more creativity and diversity within the group

As a conclusion. I just want to say, how do these work together?

Learning innovation and creativity and organization,

create friendly and open work environment.

Who doesn't want this

learning starts at an individual level and employees should have

a desire to change and grow on their first day.

I remember how uncomfortable it is to try and

learn something new that you haven't mastered yet.

I was always nervous on my first day of work because I didn't know what I was doing.

But that's okay because you're willing to change and you're willing

to learn so that you can be successful in that job.

Innovation falls into the company's hands,

creating an environment where employees feel comfortable pitching ideas

and processes to help their job in the company,

thus creating your attention for the employee employers.

And then creativity also falls in with innovation,

allowing people to bring their talents to the table and giving them recognition.

Don't immediately say no,

explore options and what is going to help the organization.

I liked how the, I found something that said, talking about saying, don't say no,

immediately allowing your employees

um,

to then bring more ideas to the table or to foster

a different idea from the one that you're not sure about.

I have a works cited page, A lot of it came from the book,

but also some other various websites that I encourage you to look at.

They

talk more about learning innovation and creativity

and there's going to be applied in

your day to day life or they can be applied within your work organizations.

I hope you're able to enjoy the presentation and that

you're able to take some things with you into your,

um, your life and how you're able to continue to use them.

Thank you

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