Part II: Team Leadership that Inspires and Engages Diverse Groups

Innovation leadership is crucial for inspiring and enabling teams to create and innovate for greater impact, from concept to execution. Leading teams when launching initiatives in today’s dynamic, digitally connected and multicultural business landscape requires a wide range of competencies to ensure successful performance. The important question is how to address specific competencies in leading new initiatives as well as cross-cultural, cross-functional and geographically distributed teams? Due to the new pressures of innovating across the value chain, there is an emergence of project and team-driven organisations that will need to pay attention to team leadership for improving performance and business results. In order to effectively address the challenges inherent in facilitating team collaboration throughout the innovation process, leaders will need to fill multiple roles. In this part, you will discover the roles of shared and creative leadership that also involve coaching and mentoring through new models, in addition to valuable methods and tools for improving team interactions and creativity when facilitating collaboration and innovation with diverse teams.