What is the
DELTA WORLD?
We are currently living in a Delta World but what does this mean?
Imagine you are standing in a river between several islands of land, a delta - an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
Deltas can only form when river channels carry sediment into another body of water, in essence there is a fusion, an integration, a collaboration.
Like a geographical delta, we can only solve the challenges we face, if we fuse diverse talents and collaborate more effectively to create new ways of working and living that will have a positive effect on people and planet.
McKinsey, in their Report ‘Defining the skills citizens will need in the future world of work,’ use the term Deltas to refer to a mixture of skills and attitudes. It is not just our capabilities that will solve problems, but how we create our reality, with our perception, our attitudes our mindsets.
Despite being in the 4th Industrial Revolution and having everything we need at the touch of our fingertips; we seem so far from tackling the biggest problems of our time.
Why?
We need Delta Talents.
We need Delta Leadership.
The knowledge we gained, the tools we got introduced to and the innovation framework of the 6 ‘I’s have helped us to innovate better not only on process, organisation, or deliverables but also around change management. The team has a common language and use new tools to break through their thinking. I can highly recommend the 6 ‘I’s framework and the related workshops and trainings to enable this.
Natalie Turner talks about Human Innovation on the Jens Heitland Show
How can we build Delta Talent?
But how can we do this? How can we ignite our imagination to bring new ideas to life? And how can we take the ideas that emerge from our imagination and make them work, move them from the realm of creativity to the realm of innovation?
This requires a raft of skills and mindsets that are difficult to replicate solely by machines. It requires human skills, values, and attitudes. It requires thinking about the outcome that is being created from the innovations that we want to create, or the PURPOSE behind why we are innovating.
When we embark on an innovation journey in this Delta World, we don’t know the outcome of our destination. We have a glimpse of a vision, an idea that we want to create, but we don’t always know how to get there. In short, we need a journey map.
I call this map The Six ‘I’s® of Innovation:
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IDENTIFY and the Mindset of CURIOSITY; the one who sees opportunities before anyone else, peering over the horizon at what is coming that many of us cannot see
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IGNITE and the Mindset of CREATIVITY; the one who can spark ideas and solutions and the one who can create the novel through lateral and imaginative thinking
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INVESTIGATE and the Mindset of CRITICAL Thinking; the one who likes to dig deep, to understand, to test, and to research ideas to make sure they are useful
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INVEST and the Mindset of COURAGE; the one who is willing to make a stand for the idea and to back it with whatever it might need to make it work
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IMPLEMENT and the Mindset of COMMITMENT; the one who tenaciously sticks to the plan and knows how to build teams and manage others to make an idea into something concrete, tangible, and worthwhile
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IMPROVE and the Mindset of being CLEVER; the one who can look at something and instantly see how it can be done better, and who is able to learn from success and failure and expand ideas into other areas of opportunity.
Through designing and facilitating idea generation workshops and on-going coaching and innovation consulting, The Six 'I's helped our organisation develop innovative patient-centred propositions. These have become central pillars of our corporate strategy, helping to drive a 15% uplift in sales across the region.
Are you a Delta talent?
Delta Talent is a person that knows they can't do everything. They need to work with other like-minded people to create impactful solutions that uplift the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Discovered your opportunities? Think about your skills. What are your strengths in the Six ‘I’s®?
Are you an Identifier, Igniter, Investigator, Investor, Implementer or Improver?
Work with other people and harness your collective skills and mindsets to discover opportunities, solve problems and create new ways of working and being.
About Natalie
Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organisations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture and capabilities as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses. As Founder of The Entheo Network, based out of Singapore, she has made her passion for purpose and people driven innovation practical as well as inspirational to elevate people’s thinking on not only what they can create, but how - the mind, skill sets and cultural environments - that make everyday innovation happen.
She has been featured in The Sunday Times, British Airways Inflight Magazine, Blomberg TV, and many other media, and is an Award-winning author for her book Yes, You Can Innovate and a contributing author to Unleash Your Voice - Powerful Public Speaking for Everywoman. Natalie is the inventor of The Six ‘I’s®, a Model that helps people measure their innovation strengths so that they can harness diversity and have a greater impact from new ideas. It also provides a clear journey map to help navigate uncertainty, develop new solutions and make them real.
As an international Keynote speaker, she has inspired audiences on the human side of innovation – the mindsets and skills we need to harness diversity - and has spoken on leadership, change, and PURPOSE at some of the top speaking engagements in the world, including TEDx Singapore, Singapore Women’s Congress, Harvard University's HPAIR, BLINK live (Mediacom), Innov8rs Bangkok, ISPIM – The International Society for Professional Innovation Management - and numerous corporate and governmental organisations. She is a Professional Member of APSS - Asia Professional Speakers Singapore.
Her core vision and message is the need for PEOPLE and PURPOSE centred innovation that will elevate and provoke our thinking to create a more sustainable world. She believes that we are on the cusp of transformational change, not just digital disruption, but deep psychological change that will determine our future, and that it is only when human beings align their personality and strengths around a core positive purpose, they are unstoppable in doing good for themselves, their organisations, and the world around them.
Natalie has a marketing strategy and commercial background, has three degrees: a BA Hons in Politics & Legislative studies, an MSc in Economics and Social Psychology and an MBA. She is a UK National who has worked extensively across Asia for the last 12 years. She currently lives in Lisbon, Portugal with her husband and business partner Carl Hinds.
MEDIA
Natalie has been quoted in newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times (UK) and The British Airways in Flight Magazine and written for periodicals including The Director, Management Today and HR Future. She has also been interviewed on Channel News Asia and Bloomberg TV.
Natalie is a dazzling speaker. She can inject vitality into a workshop, getting people to move around and engage. She can also electrify an audience during a keynote speech, raising them to their feet. I have seen people have epiphanies in her workshops, suddenly realising that they too can innovate.
Sarah Lewis
Director Marketing & Communications at AVPN
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