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Author: naren@hybreed.co
“Hi there! We’re going on an adventure,
so get your backpacks ready and grab your car keys…”
And just like that, I have caught your attention. Now, before you decide to dismiss this as another clickbait article, let me remind you of the title of this blog. Storification, even though extensively used across industries, still remains a fairly new age concept. As a matter of fact, there’s just one organisation, based out of Finland, that uses this term to describe their content creation process.
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Have you ever felt like someone you knew would prefer you to act differently than you currently do? It’s human nature that, with or without meaning to, we all try to change those around us. Everyone does it! At work, managers try to change their workers; at home, parents try to change their children; and in social circles, people try to change friends and acquaintances. Everyone is trying to change someone. We are so busy changing people around us that we have lost our own focus. Many of us have spent years trying to change someone, to no end. Some have tried everything possible to change people’s thinking and behavior so that they become more like us, yet they have failed. It is just like pushing a wall and expecting it to move.
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A gift made to our very own Arun Rao by Simon Taufel himself, this book has passed many hands in our team. It speaks about types of behaviour, qualities, and practices which an individual, a team, and an organisation can benefit from.
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“Taking complete ownership of your outcomes by holding no one but yourself responsible for them is the most powerful thing you can do to drive success.”
– Gary W. Keller
One of the most recurring complaints in organisations is a lack of accountability on the part of employees. For example, being late for meetings, and justifying their behaviour with excuses like ‘the traffic was terrible’ or ‘my car broke down.’
A true culture of ownership comes when employees feel that they have an equal role in the company’s overall success. This creates an environment where your team is guided more by values than rules. Furthermore, this helps establish a clear connection between their actions and the company’s cumulative success.
A sense of ownership enables better decisions on your team’s part. They feel motivated to take better care of the clients, be creative, and encourages involvement in the overall success of the organisation. Feeling like they are part of a bigger picture can encourage job satisfaction.
As leaders, the easiest way to establish a sense of ownership is to avoid the blame game. Instead, encourage your team members to adapt an ownership mindset. Let’s look at three impactful ways to enable the same –
Stating the Obvious: Build Accountability
As a leader, you need to ensure that each team member has a clear sense of responsibility. Building an effective team does not mean that you need to micro manage everything. Instead, it means that employees feel responsible for their actions, with absolute ownership. All in all, creating an atmosphere of accountability is one of the best ways to harbor a mentality of ownership at the workplace.
Mistakes happen – allow them!
‘To err is human, to forgive divine.’
Leaders should create room for improvement with timely feed-forward on each team member’s performance. However, it is essential for companies to enable a safe space for teams to make, and own up their mistakes. This doesn’t mean that the mistakes go unnoticed. But, rather, mistakes made are looked upon as instances to learn from.
As a leader, be compassionate about the inevitable mistakes so that your team is not hesitant to learn, experiment, and innovate with new concepts and ideas.
Define the end goals
When it comes to nurturing a culture of ownership, it is important to establish realistic and clear goals for the entire team. This further enables accountability. Also, as a leader, you being clear on the expectations from each team member will establish trust. This, in turn, will push your team to be committed to a collective singular vision. Trust is a fundamental part of ownership and the members who are given responsibility, take responsibility.
As a leader, if you do your best to help your team learn and grow, you will be surprised by what they can accomplish. A higher sense of ownership infused in the workforce not only results in unprecedented success, but also ensures a happy and satisfied workforce.
From Lawyer to Facilitator
Whether you like him or not (which is rarely the case), you can’t ignore him, because he is trending 365 days a year through his comedy shows and anchoring. Comedy is a serious business and he has mastered this art with his wit, wisdom, and sheer awesomeness. He paid income taxes of INR 15 crore to the Government of India recently and his show “The Kapil Sharma Show” has an IMDB rating of 8.6/10 (as of March 2017). He has a following of 7.72 Million on Twitter, equivalent to several popular Bollywood actors and actresses and he is on his way to becoming an international comedy star with his popularity.
What is a Masterclass?
A Masterclass is an immersive online experience, where participants learn from the industry’s best experts.
Avery Dennison: Background
A global company with locations in over 50 countries, Avery Dennison employs approximately 36,000 people worldwide. Avery Dennison is a materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical and the digital and improve customers’ product performance. Avery Dennison leads in serving a vast array of industries worldwide, including home and personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals, and automotive.
Objective
Innovation within a well-run organization has always been a sure pathway to business success. With the recent disruptions brought about by the pandemic, innovation becomes crucial to staying afloat in today’s highly competitive world.
A leader in material science, Avery Dennison thrives on a culture of innovation. The client requested a methodology that taps the imagination of employees and opens the organization to diverse possibilities by bringing in an expert’s perspective. A Masterclass seemed the perfect fit!
Audience
To adapt and overcome the challenges of change, a program that fosters innovation in a fast-paced environment was designed for the LGM (Labelling & Graphic Material) Team, APAC with 300 participants.
Challenge
Engaging an audience of 300 virtually – all at once was a challenge. Hence, we recommended bringing in 2 experts to cover various facets of innovation.
Execution
FocusU recommended
Greg Orme:
To speak on building a culture of Innovation
Greg is an award-winning author, CEO, entrepreneur, and organizational change veteran who helps leaders thrive in a world of accelerating disruption through creative thinking, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Rajashree Rao:
To speak on driving Innovation for a sustainable world
Rajashree (Shree) is a globally acclaimed industry thought leader, visionary, advisor, principal consultant, and mentor in next-gen technologies – Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), among many others.
Greg’s session threw light on why some organizations are innovative and others aren’t. He spoke about innovation mindsets and innovation strategies the teams could implement through different tools.
Shree sprinkled a unique perspective on how organizations can innovate while keeping the world and sustainability in check. She suggested the best practices that the organization can adopt while advancing in technology, busted myths, and also shared case studies where some organizations have succeeded in innovating for a sustainable world.
The client’s initial interaction with both the Masterclass speakers instilled them with confidence in the success of this dual Masterclass program, even before it took place.
Impact:
The Masterclass session was a massive success! The participants were thrilled and inspired by the interactive sessions delivered by Greg Orme and Rajashree Rao. The session was deemed valuable and garnered the praise of all 300 participants.
Testimonial:
A heartwarming testimonial from Sachdev Singh, L&OD Manager, LGM, APAC says it all. “I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation for providing us with some of the best speakers we could have during the Innovation Master Class Series that took place last year.“
Greg Orme who spoke about building a culture of Innovation was absolutely amazing in his delivery. He made his presence felt brilliantly and we also had some of our leaders appreciating him sharing how Innovation will engage with tech disruption to grow value in a world of constant disruption, discover ‘great problems’ to accelerate innovation, and experiment to learn, innovate and grow. Rajashree Rao who spoke about Driving Innovation for a Sustainable World was equally amazing. Speaking about the types of Innovation and why reconstructing and restructuring the Innovation model helped a lot of us to understand its purpose of it. She was powerful, and vocal and shared some great case studies.
Overall, I would like to say thank you once again for all your assistance, and looking forward to many more collaborations.
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