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HUMANISING AGILITY
by Janet Sernack|09 October 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach to many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an...
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BE PLANET FRIENDLY USE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GO GREEN
by Janet Sernack|24 September 2024|Innovation consulting blog
Let’s Think of the future as a giant, bold leap towards something better - and what’s better than saving some green while going green with renewable energy? The race is on to keep pace with the latest trends and be...
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EMOTIONAL ENERGY, CREATIVE THINKING AND AI
by Janet Sernack|07 August 2024|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog
The impact of disruption, hyperconnectivity, and uncertainty, coupled with the pace of change, causes many people to feel fearful and anxious. This results in them becoming defensive and reactive and ‘go under’ emotionally and ‘go inwards’ cognitively, often by ruminating...
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BE INNOVATIVE IN TAKING SMART RISKS
by Janet Sernack|04 June 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
After founding ImagineNation™ in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking smart risks to invent an experiential business game. This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live...
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ANYONE CAN LEARN TO INNOVATE
by Janet Sernack|08 April 2024|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
The 21st century requires us to unlearn, learn, and relearn a different set of mindsets, behaviours, and skills, and anyone can learn to innovate to acclerate productivity growth, adapt to the new net zero reality, improve cost efficiencies and use...
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HUMAN CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING WITH AI
by Janet Sernack|08 October 2023|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
A recent McKinsey Leading Off – Essentials for leaders and those they lead email newsletter, referred to an article “The organization of the future: Enabled by gen AI, driven by people” which stated that digitization, automation, and AI will reshape...
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KICKSTART CHANGE AND INNOVATE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
by Janet Sernack|05 January 2023|Education blog, Innovation consulting blog
In our last blog, we described why innovation is transformational, and why, at this moment in time, it is more important than ever to innovate. To take advantage of living in a globalised world, which is interconnected through technologies and...
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INNOVATING THROUGH CONSTRAINTS AND ADVERSITY
by Janet Sernack|31 March 2022|Coaching blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
It’s been almost two and a half years since the Covid-19 pandemic shifted most of us to working virtually and remotely which seriously disrupted most of our business-as-usual behaviours and learning habits. Interestingly, this disrupted our habitual unconscious safety and...
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DEVELOPING 21ST-CENTURY SUPERPOWERS FOR LEADERS AND TEAMS
by Janet Sernack|01 December 2021|Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders. To do this effectively, they say that...
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EVERYONE HATES TO FAIL – WHY DO YOU?
by Janet Sernack|06 October 2021|Coaching blog, Education blog, Entrepreneurship blog, Innovation consulting blog, Leadership blog
If you have ever had a significant setback, made a serious mistake, or failed at completing an important task, you will have experienced some kind of deep emotional and visceral, largely unconscious, negative, reactive response to it.  By becoming passively...
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