Creating a Culture for Risk and Innovation:
A Guide for Leaders

Today’s best companies, whatever their size, strive to be entrepreneurial and innovative. It is not enough to encourage employees to take risks. Your organization’s culture must communicate clearly how you will support innovators who take intelligent risks. Too many organizations say that they want employees to take risks, but reward only final success or worse, punish those who fall short because they moved beyond the boundaries of the known, safe choices.

In Creating a Culture for Risk & Innovation, a companion program to Intelligent Risk-Taking, leaders and managers learn how to support and encourage entrepreneurial risk-taking. The focus is on modifying aspects of the culture so employees receive consistent and positive messages about initiating change and innovation. Skills are developed to stimulate, support, encourage, and coach employees to take thoughtful, intelligent risks.

Participants will learn how to:

• Take leadership in moving their organizations and the people in them toward taking greater and more intelligent risks
• Describe the role of the leader in managing risk factors
• Explain how their personal approach to risk-taking and innovation affects their leadership style in relation to risk and innovation
• Identify, practice, and apply leadership skills that encourage risk and innovation
• Analyze and assess their own organization’s culture and begin to plan to create an intelligent risk-taking environment

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Creating a Culture for Risk and Innovation is a copyrighted program of Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc.