{"id":8,"date":"2016-01-03T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T12:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-06-29T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T12:13:12","slug":"innovation-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/2016\/01\/03\/innovation-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just started studying for the ILM level 5 in Leadership and Management<\/a>, which is likely to take up a fair bit of my time over the next six months. One of the things I\u2019ve been asked to submit is a learning log, which details everything I\u2019ve learned (and want to learn) and how it feeds into the work I\u2019m doing. I also have to write reflections on each module in the program; starting with the Change & Innovation module I studied in December.<\/p>\n

Innovation is a straightforward one for me. It\u2019s my natural way of thinking, I value innovative ideas, and I tend not to discount ideas just because they don\u2019t fit into the established order. It probably helps that I\u2019m not the greatest fan of blindly accepting the status quo, and am always looking for ways to be more efficient, more effective, and just better<\/em> at things. Based on this I suppose it could be surmised that I\u2019m also good at dealing with change. For after all, isn\u2019t change is just the end product of innovation; the idea given form and unleashed into the world?<\/p>\n

The fact is I\u2019m a lot less comfortable with change than I am with innovation. I like my changes to be incremental and subtle, and while I\u2019m quite happy to find myself doing almost wholly different work five years after starting my current job, the thought of changing everything that I do in one fell swoop scares me (and would have scared me even more five years ago). Yes, it\u2019s exciting, but it also means devising new routines, new patterns of activity, and new workarounds for things that I find sufficiently uncomfortable that they affect my productivity and general happiness if I\u2019m forced to do them too often.<\/p>\n

2016 is going to be a year of change, and I\u2019m going to be documenting as much of it as I can. I actually think it\u2019s going to help the change process, as well as forming part of what I\u2019m being assessed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve just started studying for the ILM level 5 in Leadership and Management, which is likely to take up a fair bit of my time over the next six months. One of the things I\u2019ve been asked to submit is a learning log, which details everything I\u2019ve learned (and want to learn) and how it … Continue reading “Innovation and Change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ilm5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/andyferguson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}