Innoduel Blog

What will make you a great leader that drives both business results and employee engagement?

5+1 Engaging Questions for Co-creation

In the Nordics we are done with summer vacays. So we are ready for the adventures that fall will bring, before the winter comes.

Did You Say Strategy Implemented Successfully?

During my years at big corporations I participated and contributed in several strategy preparations. In the process of making there was typically a “head of strategy” leading the strategy work and it took months to finalise.  Once the slide set was ready it was barely explained to the leadership team and team leaders who were supposed to implement the strategy. The small preparation team ran out of steam and the company continued as before.

Product Update: What We've Been Up to This Spring?

We are continuously developing Innoduel. First of all I would like to thank you all for your feedback about the application! Without it we couldn't survive and improve. Some of your feedback is related to smaller issue that we have implemented right away and some of it will become reality via our future roadmap. 

3 Things that Make Company a Great Place to Work

Many minds can amplify creativity and create something much more diverse than just one. A co-created view of any topic helps people to commit to shared decisions and goals and work with better motivation. 

5 Reasons to Stop Using Sticky Notes in Workshops

How many times have you been in a brainstorming workshop where the time is spent in never-ending sticky notes exercises? I’ve lost the count.

How to make yourself redundant as a leader?

“I can take a month off from work without anything stopping!”

Why did I spend so much time on internal lobbying?

Large corporations fail in establishing clear decision making processes shared and followed by everybody. This is also a risk in any growth company.

Think leading a business is tough? Try leading a school.

The pressure is on. As a business leader, you need to deliver results, preferably exceed set goals. The way you do it is up to you. Maybe you got some guidelines from your board and shareholders. You can decide to be a value based leader or choose to lead by numbers relying on your CFO’s Excel sheets. You can create an environment of freedom and responsibility or micro-manage every single step of your employees.

The art of in-house recruitment - 3 ways to help promoted newbie leaders

“I am making a slow scientific suicide”. This is a direct quote from a friend of mine who was promoted from his familiar role as an astro physicist to lead an entire team of researchers. According to my friend, the administrative duties and bureaucracy killed the creativity and joy of doing science.