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Launching Your 

Innovation Journey:

With Gregg Fraley

Gregg Fraley Innovation (GFi)

Author of Jack’s Notebook

Part 3 of 3 sessions

October 2, 2019
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Today’s Session

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Launching Your Innovation Journey, Post-Dallas Virtual Workshop
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POLL QUESTION

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Where are you in your project innovation journey – are 

you:

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Review of Practical Applications Session

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Pink = Exploration

Yellow =Idea Generation

Turquoise=Action

Purple=Metrics/Data
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• Leaders, like all of us, 

need to be 

accountable to 

someone

• Dialogue around 

roadblocks helps to 

break them down

• Accountability 

partners help keep 

you on track 

Accountability
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• Progress Report on 

what you committed to 

doing

• Blocks/Brainstorming 

to address them

• What’s Next?

• What will you commit 

to getting done?

Accountability Process Check/Call
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• Accountability

• You + Team 

members

• Dealing with 

breakdowns and 

conflict

• Problem solving to 

get through hurdles

Poll question

Best Practice for Project Management
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• Forming

• Storming

• Norming

• Performing

• Re-Forming

Tuckman Model
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• Diversity

• Age

• Gender

• Ethnicity

• Thinking Style

• Experience

Team Diversity
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• Diversity Means:

• More Innovation

• More Conflict

Team Conflict
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How’s It Going Out There?
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Enrolling Others

• Ask and then, Keep Asking (don’t 

take First No for a permanent/final 

answer)

• Stress benefits to customers 

and your other core values

• Show your own commitment

• Beg

• Provide ways to participate even 

if only in small incremental ways

• Virtual ideation, suggestions 

for projects (open list)

• Celebrate wins publically
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Road-Mapping Report and Scheduling First Call

• If You haven’t done the 

roadmap yet, do it

• Think of it as a work in 

progress

• The projects you do are who 

you are, and, contexts change

• Keep it visible, at least to 

yourself, but maybe to all

• Okay, now, huddle with your 

partner and schedule that first 

check in call, please
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Launching Your Innovation Journey

Q & A
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What would you see as 

innovative for your 

organization? 

What kind of project would 

you see a step in that 

direction?

What kinds of projects do 

you plan to do, and when?

What are the next steps 

along your innovation 

journey?

Where Do We Go?

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Taking Stock – What Do We Know

Topics Addressed

• Why innovation works

• How to manage innovation projects

• Applied Creativity Tools: forced associations, challenge 

mapping, and brain writing 

• Management Approaches: to address dysfunction, change 

management 

• Planning Tools: Innovation Roald Map, Idea Concept Form

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Imagining An Innovative And Sustainable Future Through Creative 

Thinking- Summer & Fall 2019 Training Series
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We Are Here To Help

New NRCNA Issue Brief

• Innovation: Part Discipline, Part Creativity, All Possible

Upcoming Fall Webinars – Sources of Inspiration

• Culinary Training | Medically Tailored Meals

Looking Ahead: Spring 2020

• 2017 ACL Innovation Grantee Hub – stay tuned

And so much more...

Resources to keep in mind!

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LAUNCHING YOUR 

INNOVATION JOURNEY

WITH GREGG FRALEY

VIRTUAL SESSION

OCTOBER 2, 2019