{"id":10440,"date":"2020-05-29T11:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/managementberatung-coaching.de\/?p=10440"},"modified":"2024-06-21T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:09:08","slug":"joy-of-experimentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/managementberatung-coaching.de\/en\/expertimentierfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live the joy of experimentation! Seven success factors for a culture of experimentation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/path><\/svg><\/span>Management Summary<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Experimentation is an important skill - especially in the VUCA world. I will introduce you to the seven success factors of a culture of experimentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. An open attitude and an alert eye<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Intrinsic motivation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Courage to jump into cold water<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Time to experiment<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Rooms<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Exertise<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Regular lessons learnt<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In the article, I also explain how companies can introduce a culture of experimentation.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

    Experimentation - Success Factor 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    An open attitude and an alert eye<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    We will only experiment if we fundamentally Open for new things are and Interest in own further development have. Basically, we humans are born with great curiosity - this shows how quickly babies and toddlers develop. In order for people to maintain this over the course of their lives and especially their professional lives, it takes a Environment that allows for a certain degree of self-realisation - so the Free design of how the paths to the goal look like. Furthermore, it needs a Diversity of experience, perspectives, opinions, to be able to set impulses. And it needs Imagination. We preserve imagination when dreaming is allowed. But imagination also needs training, imagination needs the interconnected work of both hemispheres of the brain. That can be trained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Experimentation - Success Factor 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Intrinsic motivation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    In addition to an open attitude and an alert eye, a strong sense of responsibility is required. intrinsic Motivation. For that alone is the engineto stick to one thing. To experience and perceive a subject from different perspectives. To change details, to analyse the result. To go back to the beginning and start again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Experimentation - Success Factor 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Courage to jump into cold water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    New things will only emerge if we are prepared to leave the old familiar. Not only to change easily, but to question safe structures, established approaches and proven methods, to throw them overboard and start again. Green meadow. Anything goes, everything is allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In this new beginning Being alone an advantage be. You are not accountable to anyone. No one laughs at you. No one gives you advice you don't need. No one asks questions and wants to know when the result will finally be on the table. There is no competition, no pressure. You're done when you're done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    But trying it out alone can also be a disadvantage. There is no group to support you, to encourage you, to lift you up when you have setbacks. There is no one who thinks along with you. There are no sparring partners who also tinker, develop and question. The opportunity that lies in diversity is lost, External impulses are rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    No matter whether experimenting alone or in a team. It always takes courage to jump into the deep end, to move out of the comfort zone. It takes courage and thus self-confidence. Self-confidence in one's own abilities. Self-confidence that endures even when things don't work out the way you wanted and imagined. It takes courage to take time - even to \"throw it out of the window\". It takes courage to deal with setbacks and the strong confidence that at some point you will succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And it needs something else: inner independence from the opinion of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Experimentation - Success Factor 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Time to experiment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Creativity, innovation and even experimentation do not follow the rigid laws of efficiency or productivity. On the contrary. Pressure in any form, including time pressure, works against new ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Now some of you may say. But at Corona we had pressure. We had to. That's true. But we only had pressure to change something. The result didn't have to be perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And that is often where the error lies: Yes, it sometimes needs an initial push. A pressure that Urgency to act creates. A pressure that makes it clear. Change is imperative. Now! This pressure should always answer the questions: \"Why is action necessary? What happens if we remain in the status quo?\" If that is clear, then time and space are needed to start the game of ideas and to dive into the fascination of experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Experimentation - Success Factor 5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rooms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Experimentation needs spaces. What spaces do I mean? Of course it needs the Physical creative spaces and laboratories that inspire, stimulate and enable. But above all it needs mental Rooms, it needs Communication and decision-making spaces. It needs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n