Future-proof your organization and thrive in the face of change (presentation and download)
Published on 23 August 2024 • Written by Dr Lisa Colledge
You're a successful leader, and you want to be ready to move immediately when you decide to prioritize a new competitor or customer challenge.
But how confident do you feel about continuing to thrive in the face of all the unknown change awaiting you in the future?
This was the challenge addressed by Lisa’s presentation, which opened The Neuroverse Virtual Summit 2024. Please scroll down to watch the presentation and learn how designing your organizational culture by taking inspiration from neurodiversity inclusion will boost your innovation culture with the bonus of happier, healthier, more engaged employees. You can also download a free pdf version.
The key takeaways are:
Upskill to embrace change: your organization faces constant challenges from external disruptors like AI and internal strategy shifts. Although human instincts resist the unknown, evolution has also equipped us to adapt. By upskilling your talent to strengthen their innate adaptive capacity, teams can learn to harness their collective genius to embrace change, establishing your culture as an asset to ensure your continued success.
Cognitive diversity – a mix of thinking styles – enables teams to embrace change. Skills associated with neurodivergence, such as dyslexia, autism and ADHD, illustrate why combining diverse cognitive styles is crucial for effective problem-solving and innovation. Teams that balance skills in exploration (novelty and change) and exploitation (evaluation and execution) are the ones that can be resilient when faced with change.
Activate cognitive diversity by building a culture of cognitive inclusion culture so that each team member feels safe accepting and nurturing the new insights and skills offered by other team members. Valuing each team member’s contribution enables everyone to contribute their best, including re-energizing your disengaged and under-performing talent so that your collective genius emerges.
Strategic cultural change: leadership should prioritize and be accountable for your organization’s cultural transformation. Engage a skilled consultant like me to design a cognitive inclusion strategy tailored to your existing strengths so that your organization can sustain change. I have a proven track record of building strategic competencies that provide sustainable competitive advantage; am a pioneer and expert in using metrics to motivate change; and my change experience draws from a rich background spanning commercial, influencing, thought leadership, and people-focused roles.
Benefits beyond thriving in the face of change: everyone has a preferred cognitive style, and so cognitive inclusion naturally enables people of all ages, backgrounds, (dis)abilities, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities to contribute their best. The resulting improvements in employee engagement, wellbeing and mental health lead to higher productivity, engagement, retention, talent acquisition, and profitability, as well as innovation.
Prefer reading instead of watching?
Some of Lisa's bookshelves. How we each choose to organize our books is a window onto our cognitive style.
Check out the presentation or pdf for more details about this metaphor.
I'm Lisa, and I help leaders create inclusive cultures that embrace all neurostyles. By empowering every team member to contribute at their best, while fostering mental well-being, you will boost innovation, retention, and talent acquisition—leading to enhanced business performance.
Click here to learn more about how my services can transform your team.
