Career Innovation Roadmap

Career Innovation involves the steps to change direction, alter expectations, modify tools & best practices, as well as the disruptions that often result. Career Innovation is resisted by industry, hiring managers, and educational institutions because it defies pedagogical thinking, is difficult to integrate into existing traditions and often requires institutions and corporations to rethink their assumptions.

Company assumptions and traditions limit the processes, tools, information, resources, models, and strategies selected for day to day operations.

Hiring a candidate with experience, training, and education that exceeds existing job requirements is just as likely to be considered a risk as it is an asset.

Competency models support the analysis of candidate profiles beyond the existing technical and pedagogical assumptions. These models support career innovation when companies look beyond the existing task list for each role.

What differentiates one company from another is often dependent on leveraging these externally informed competencies.

How to push a company culture outside its comfort zone is altogether a completely different challenge.

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The 2020 pandemic challenges companies to thrive in an environment of scarcity. This includes scarce customers, revenue, inventory, and employees.

The move to digital tools and delivery mechanisms involved innovation occasionally referred to as ‘low hanging fruit.’ It can be disruptive if the models are adjusted indefinitely, but observations of human nature have proven change can be short-lived. Even the short term digital shift required a global catastrophe to achieve.

How can company’s leverage this new ‘normal’ and discover a more effective, efficient, and customizable business model? Will changes will be needed to sustain the ‘new business model?’

Employment Services model continues to focus on pedagogical norms. Referring ‘outside the box’ candidates for ‘hard to fill’ positions is more likely to be considered risky than creative.

This risk this creates is serving the current customer the same old products and services without considering their evolving needs and priorities. The race to the future is depending on career innovation to insure the strategies, processes, models, and tools are available, relevant, and applied effectively. Not all companies are comfortable with this path.

Career Innovation informs and connects the interdependencies between corporate models and human lives.

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An approach to strengthening career innovation, and corporate innovation, is the Innovation Training Roadmap. New and old businesses alike can develop their own roadmap for building the soft skills, competencies, and creativity necessary to cross the chasm between current pedagogical thinking and the future models that will dominate the competition.

Note: The roadmap depicted above also includes components available as part of Innovate Vancouver’s Training Innovation & Business Launch Services.

Introducing career innovation requires courage, resources, and commitment. Corporate assets that often have to be built from the ground up before such ‘risks’ are to be undertaken. Career Innovation fuels business model innovation. And business model innovation fuels customer satisfaction and the solutions, products, and services of tomorrow.

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Additional Cross System Competencies

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The above checklist and roadmap can be used with the Situational Leadership Assessment Framework Assessment – available at Innovate Vancouver.

Is your company ready to deliver on their promise to serve the customers of the future? Contact Innovate Vancouver today to get your risk-free quote and learn more about the Innovation Training Roadmap!

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