How’s Your Climate for Learning?*
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Goran Ekvall pioneered a project to quantify the climate for innovation.
His study validated "climate for innovation" as a determinant
of business success. Ekvall’s work has been further refined
and validated by Scott Isaksen and others at the Center for Creative
Studies at SUNY-Buffalo. They identified nine dimensions of the
climate for innovation, creativity, and learning.
You may want your ministry team to evaluate your innovation and
learning climate by looking at these nine dimensions. Rate the
team climate on a scale of 1 to five (1-5) with one (1) indicating
a small degree and five (5), a large degree. The higher the
number the better the learning climate.
Interpreting your total:
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45-35
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Excellent learning climate |
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34-25
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Good learning climate |
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24-15
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Fair learning climate |
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14 or less
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Poor environment |
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*Adapted from The Climate for Innovation
by Charles W. Prather which first appeared in the May 1996 issue of
R&D Innovator magazine. http://www.thinking.net/climate4innovation.html |
