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from Joel Barker & Debbe Kennedy

A great IDEA is only valuable if it is accepted. Unfortunately, many great ideas --- new programs, new initiatives, new products, new services, new policies, new practices --- are introduced as though they were grant proposals or a term paper as opposed to exciting INNOVATIONS that will bring great benefits.

Introducing an idea has less to do with covering every detail and everything to do with engaging your audience and making sure what you say is heard and accepted. Four to dos:

  • Learn from mistakes.
    Reflect on previous presentations of new ideas. What could you learn to make your next presentation better?
  • Focus on wants and needs.
    Think less about what you want to say and more about what your sponsor wants and needs to hear.
  • Make it exciting for others.
    Pinpoint at least one way to make your great idea exciting to others.
  • Be prepared to answer questions.
    Anticipate the questions you may be asked and make sure you are prepared to answer them.

Want to boost the chances of gaining ACCEPTANCE of your new ideas? Check out our 2010 ONLINE professional development WEBINAR below. Our next session is Thursday, June 3rd!

We wish you success as you lead the way!

-- Joel Barker and Debbe Kennedy
Executive Instructors, How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS
Online Learning Programs at the Global Dialogue Center

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Join us Thursday, June 3, for our next session of Tactics of Innovation: How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS...

buy inA live two-hour ONLINE professional development webinar conducted by executive instructors, futurist Joel A. Barker and author and Global Dialogue Center founder Debbe Kennedy...

A live 90-minute, content-rich, interactive presentation, plus a 30-minute Group Exchange for questions and dialogue with Joel Barker and Debbe Kennedy.

Learn more & register: www.howtogetbuyinfornewideas.com

The How to Get Buy-In for New Ideas webinar is designed to complement the foundation established in Joel Barker's Tactics of Innovation video, while substantially expanding the learning experience with new and different content, updated and more specific discussion, real-to-life current examples, and practical tools to help participants apply course learnings to their own needs.
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"Peter Drucker demonstrated that communication is not saying something. Communication is being heard."

-- Frances Hesselbein
President and CEO
Leader to Leader Institute
(former Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management)



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Resources
from Joel Barker and
Debbe Kennedy

BOOK:
Putting Our Differences to Work: The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership, and High Performance

3 VIDEOS:
Tactics of Innovation,
Innovation at the Verge and
Wealth, Innovation & Diversity

 

 
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Innovation Tips are practical how-tos from Joel Barker and Debbe Kennedy. They are shared to encourage and support leaders and innovators as they work to overcome the common realities of resistance to change -- and successfully get new ideas and new thinking accepted in their organizations and with customers. Each tip comes with a related enduring innovator insight.

In 2010, Innovation Tips will be sent twice each month to keep momentum going. They are designed to complement a more indepth study provided during Tactics of Innovation: How to Get Buy-In for NEW IDEAS, our online professional development WEBINAR at the Global Dialogue Center.

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