Shana Francesca is a speaker, writer and entrepreneur and is also known as author, Maeve Marin. Shana helps people live more joyful and connected lives through the principles Of life design. Shana believes our present and future are transformed when we infuse our lives with intention, we design our lives and realize the power in accepting ourselves as the author of our story.

EP 208: Stakeholder pitching - How to win the buy in of internal stakeholders before you start prototyping- Jens Heitland

Welcome to HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

This episode covers the topic of winning stakeholders before you start prototyping an idea inside of your innovation funnel.

In this episode I cover the topic of Strategy gathering as part of preparing for Scenario workshops which will enable an organization to find out what problems the innovation team will focus on.

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of SUCCEED.The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030 Questions I answered:

• How do I motivate a team member?

• How do you generate collaboration in a matrix organization?

• How do I give negative feedback?

• Our company is very hierarchical. I feel like I don't have a voice. How can I get the management to listen?

• How do I build my network in a matrix organization?

• How to develop a team member to perform better?

• I get more and more tasks from my manager because she knows that when I get it it will be done. What can I do?

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

The vision of succeed is to bring free leadership education to 1 billion people by 2030

Enjoy me answering the following questions around leadership.

- How do I lead a team remote?

- How do I lead my first job interview

- How do I stand out as a talent?

- How do I coach a person?

- How do I manage a conflict between 2 team members?

- How to communicate effectively with an international team?

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.

As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.

Enjoy me answering questions around leading others.

SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

This Q&A is the live stream Q&A of my Startup SUCCEED.

At SUCCEED we want to democratize leadership and find ways to provide leadership education to as many people as possible.

As phase 1 of the startup we are focussing on Educational content where fist I (Jens) teach 4 webinars and then bringe more educators onto the platform to build leadership educational content.

Enjoy me answering questions around leading myself.

SUCCEED on the Web: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

Announcing a new Startup that is democratizing Leadership Education.

In this episode I will go deeper into the background of SUCCEED.

What is the mission, the problem we want to solve and more.

Explore SUCCEED: https://www.wearesucceed.com/

#leadandsucceed

In this episode I let the listener look into my big list of things I have written down during the last 20 years that I did not like about how people lead me.

I call this list how I will not lead. I am looking at this list at least once per year to remind myself about all the topics.

Topics I cover:

I will not micromanage my team

I will not jump in and solve every problem

I will not be a tank / asshole

I will not let people “hurt” me in public

I will not be the grumpy manager

I will not shout at others

I will not type while a person talks to me

I will not blame my team members in public

I will not talk negative about people behind their back

I will not wait to long to take decisions

The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team?

• Questions I answered in the live show:

• What is the right org setup for innovation?

• How do I find the right people for innovation?

• Do I need to lead innovators differently?

• How do I train people to innovate?

The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How can human innovation change business results?

Questions I answered in the live show:

Because of covid it is all about saving costs right now in our company. How can I still innovate?

Everyone talks about innovation in our company but all we do are small improvements rather than real innovation. How to change that?

I am a new leader in an organization and responsible for +100 people. How do I motivate people that are long term in the company to innovate themselves?

How could I measure our innovation efforts differently? I am working in finance administration and am responsible for producing the weekly reports. How can we measure innovation?

I don’t have an innovation question but hope you can help me. I am working in a large organization and would like to hire a new person but don’t have the head count. How can I get a new headcount approved?

I am a manager with 5 direct reports, 5k employee company. My manager has no idea how to lead people. He is micromanaging me and the other managers. I am considering leaving the company but want to give it another last try, any idea what I could do?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: Corporate Innovation - How to engage the organizational silos?

Questions I answer in the show:

What can I do as a leader in mid management to encourage my team to work better with other teams when innovating?

Other departments work against us, how do I turn this around as a leader?

The other departments (marketing and Finance) are not supporting the innovation efforts despite that it is a clear goal in our company strategy. What can I do as a leader?

Our innovation team works a lot but we don’t get recognized from the organization. What should we do to improve ourselves?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

• How to map stakeholders - the human way?

• Why should you build a relationship with your stakeholders to innovate?

• How to collaborate with stakeholders - the human way?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to transform a business the human way?

• How to lead a business transformation the human way?

• How to communicate a transformation the human way?

• How to involve employees in a business transformation the human way?

• How to ensure long term success in a business transformation the human way?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to empower people to innovate?

• How to delegate to innovate?

• How to build trust to innovate?

• How to collaborate to innovate?

• How to support personal and professional growth to innovate?

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The topic of today’s episode is: What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Questions I cover in the live show:

What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Why do you call it the magic zone?

How does the magic zone play a role in my human innovation system?

How can I lead in the magic zone?

How do I engage with the community with the magic zone?

How do I impact a business with the magic zone?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How do I lead myself

Questions I cover in the live show

• How Do I lead myself

• Why do so many people don’t know what their superpower is?

• How can we find our superpower?

• What is our Ambition and how can we find it?

• What are strategies to keep my ambition?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

Last week I was interviewed by Katharina Mormann from Aragón Exterior here in Zaragoza Spain

Aragon Exterior is the Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of the Regional Government of Aragón, Spain.

Katharina established a Webinar / Podcast called La Ventana al Mundo - the window to the world

Enjoy the Q&A Moderated by Katharina Mormann

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build an innovation System for a company?

Because this is a complex topic I have created a PDF that supports visually what I explain.

The 4 parts I explain are:

Problem

• What do we want to solve and why?

Sourcing

• What are the ideas and solutions we want to test?

Validating

• What solution is valuable to scale?

Scaling

• How to measure and secure success long term

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build innovation Culture?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

• What is innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation culture?

• Why does a company benefit from an innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation lab?

• What is the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship?

• How to build an innovation strategy?

• Innovation Culture vs Innovation Management