Innovation Perspective

Overview

This session provides an academic understanding of innovation and uses the CPI to assess how the interpersonal and norm favoring orientations are combined to define the four ways of living – Supporter, Implementer, Innovator, and Visualizer.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, participants will:

• Increase their self-knowledge: living orientation.

• Understand the types of innovation and the means to innovate. 

• Gain a clearer picture of their personal and work-related characteristics, motivations, and thinking style.

Course Topics

     Innovation

• To explore the different kinds of innovation.

• To learn how to systematically think out-of-the-box.

• To learn how engage in productive idea brainstorming.

     Self-awareness Assessments

• MBTI (Myers Briggs Type Indicator Step 1): Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving.

• Change Style Indicator – The Three Styles – Conservers, Pragmatists, and Originators

• CPI assessment

The IMPLEMENTER LIFESTYLE includes people who are interpersonally active and comfortable with social rules. Implementers step forward, take part, and do not hesitate to act. They believe that social rules are proper and should be obeyed. They are ambitious, goal-directed, strong in leadership potential, and well-organized.  At their best, Implementers can be charismatic leaders and initiators of constructive endeavors. At their worst, they can be opportunistic, manipulative, and hostile toward those who behave in rule-violating ways.

The SUPPORTER LIFESTYLE includes people who are reserved in their behavior and supportive of social norms. Supporters are caring, conscientious, patient, and well-organized. They value and protect their internal, private feelings, avoiding public display or disclosure. Their role is to preserve values and humanize the ways in which social rules are enforced. At their best, Supporters can be inspirational models of goodness, virtue, and tolerance. At their worst, they may be self-denying, lacking in self-esteem and confidence.

The INNOVATOR LIFESTYLE includes people who are interpersonally active, but who see flaws and even absurdities in the way many things are done. Innovators are imaginative and often creative in their work. Their values are personal, not traditional or conventional. At their best, Innovators are insightful creators of new ideas, new products, and new social forms. At their worst, they are rebellious, intolerant, self-indulgent, and disruptive.

The VISUALIZER LIFESTYLE includes people who value their own privacy and who see many of society’s conventions as arbitrary and unduly restrictive. Visualizers are reflective and nonconforming. They see things differently from others, but for the most part keep these perspectives private. They are most comfortable working alone in fields such as the arts and abstract sciences. At their best, Visualizers are imaginative, are aesthetically perceptive, and have a rich inner life. At their worst, they feel fragmented, alienated from others, and internally in conflict.