5 key skills of leading innovators
In the world’s most innovative companies, senior executives don’t just delegate innovation, they keep their own hands deep in the innovation process and share five skills.
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In the world’s most innovative companies, senior executives don’t just delegate innovation, they keep their own hands deep in the innovation process and share five skills.
Employers are having to adopt a more flexible approach and accept that they may have to recruit someone who doesn’t necessarily tick all the boxes because of the skills shortage facing New Zealand’s jobs market.
More evidence that our economy is gathering a decent head of steam comes from the Seek New Job Ad Index which shows there was a 15% increase in the number of new jobs on offer in July compared with the same month last year and a substantial 4.2% increase on the previous month.
A research project is being undertaking to identify the necessary skills and competencies required for managers to perform duties efficiently and effectively, and to determine how these skills are acquired in New Zealand organisations. You can support this initiative by undertaking a short survey.
More than half of New Zealand employees (51%) feel their career demands more education and training than ever before, according to the latest Randstad Workmonitor report of job market sentiment. However, it also revealed that 48 percent of respondents don’t feel their organisation meets their needs and requirements in this area.
“To be successful, you must sometimes be ruthless and a bit of a nasty bugger,” says Sean Fitzpatrick, former All Black captain and author of Winning Matters: being the best you can be.
The mayhem on global investment markets this week reflects major concerns about some of the world’s big economies, but things are looking brighter Down Under, Executive Update’s economics correspondent Bob Edlin reports.
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