Hello Change Maker, and Welcome!
What is a change maker? Change makers spot opportunities that will contribute to the greater good. They use creative innovation to fulfill that opportunity. The change maker inspires and influences others to join and supports them in their change-making journey, while enabling others to join in until the positive difference is achieved.
Change Maker Characteristics
The role of a change maker is to achieve positive change for the greater good by taking innovative action. It is also to influence and inspire others to join, support and contribute to the change effort until it is achieved.
Change makers work in a variety of contexts. Some examples are: social change, business, education, environment, or technology.
Change makers understand both innovation and innovation-adoption
Innovation is a new method, idea or product that satisfies a need and creates value. Something innovative renews or alters the way things are done.
As a result, innovation requires the skills of creativity, critical thinking, communication, strategic thinking and problem solving.
Innovation-adoption on the other hand, is when a person actually changes the ways things are done. And the key to achieving successful adoption is to make sure people don’t need to change. Rather, the innovations themselves change dynamically to fit the needs of the end user.
Key Criteria
Innovation and innovation-adoption are inextricably linked. — Change making starts with enabling and managing innovation. But it’s also about ensuring the diffusion of the innovation so that great ideas and methods spread.
Innovation is structural, innovation-adoption is about people. A change maker combines the two to create a lasting, meaningful, positive difference.
The change maker’s over-riding purpose is to contribute towards making a difference for the greater good, and then facilitating the acceptance of the innovation so that people of all types actually embrace it.
What are the skills and mindset of a change maker?
Change makers do more than just talk about innovation.
Change makers know from experience that innovation by itself means nothing. In addition, they have a deep understanding of the process by which new innovations are accepted and adopted by ordinary people around the world.
Leaders of change think in terms of reinvention, and demonstrate an ongoing series of updates and new attributes that must be added to anything new, in a way that inspires others to take positive action. They have the ability to see around corners and avoid trendy shortcuts.
Change Maker Talent Development
As a leader, it’s important to not only be a change maker yourself, but also to develop change making talent in others.
When you join the Diffusion Research Institute (DRI), you will have the opportunity to interact with expert innovators, and attend regular one-to-one mentoring sessions with our leadership team.
DRI also encourages “reverse mentoring” in which members are encouraged to bring their skills and knowledge, to help our managers, directors and executives understand new thinking and approaches to work, both culturally and professionally.
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