Personal Innovation Performance: Evaluation and Improvement Plan

This discussion paper presents a self-assessment of an individual's performance as an innovator, highlighting key skills such as action orientation and imaginative thinking. The author reflects on their strengths and identifies opportunities for development in areas like time management, written presentation, and critical thinking. The paper discusses how improving these skills can enhance the individual's effectiveness and confidence as an innovator, enabling them to better present creative ideas, make informed decisions, and manage their time effectively to foster innovation. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of continuous development for innovators to achieve their goals and influence others, with references to relevant academic sources.

DISCUSSION PAPER

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Evaluating my personal performance as an innovator and considering opportunities where I
able to develop & improve my innovative practice.....................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Discussion paper, is one of those key and useful documents, that encompasses more
specific and clear details about a person, venture or practice (El Barnoussi and van Beest, 2022).
It helps to develop better understanding about improvement and development areas. The current
assessment will explain personal performance and opportunities where individual is able to
improve and develop their innovative practice over time.
TASK
Evaluating my personal performance as an innovator and considering opportunities where I able
to develop & improve my innovative practice.
Personal performance statement-
In the recent time, it is important for a person to become an innovator, because it enables
them to innovative new products and services that provide satisfaction to individuals (Mehlich,
2022). It is also useful because of further reasons, such as to increase sales, and obtain success of
venture, when a person tend to run their own business, in a specific market. To become an
innovator, individual person put a lot of efforts and take initiative to develop number of skills,
which help to reach desire outcomes.
I want to describe some information about my personal performance as an innovator, in
term of highlighting the skills that I have and knowledge, which I am using to hold the same
position or tag, forever. I personally believe that innovators have or had to develop action
oriented behaviour among them. As my belief, I follow the term in form of making my self
capable to move from intellectual work to the key practical ideas, which is the actual sign of an
innovator. Action orientation is a kind of key characteristic, that an innovator used to achieve the
aims and objectives as well as to perform better than the others. It is considered as another
drivers of innovative person, which permit them to take further actions, after the idea generation
and screening, and that is practical idea implementation. It proved fundamental when innovator
builds a prototype as well as running experiment, in appropriate manner.
I perform well, as innovator because of having imaginative skill, that makes innovators
capable to think beyond limitations and then develop plan to make their imagination into a real
form. It is fact that innovators are forward thinking people, who can effectively and appropriately
using their imagination, for purpose of envision better and helpful ways, which make them
capable to accomplish tasks (Au-Yong-Oliveira and Walter, 2022). I have strong imaginative

competency, that falls under the category of key skills, enable me to predict the result of creative
ideas and consider innovative ways to achieve the set aim, whether it is short, long or medium
term.
Innovative thinking is also encompasses in the list of skills that I have and utilize as an
innovator. As I think creatively, which on one can thought about the same. It helps me to stand
different, from the other people, who also attempt to present their creative ideas and reflect the
same in practical ways.
Opportunities-
Along with some strengths, I want to describe the areas of development and
improvement, where I am focusing on. As I want to develop various skills, such as time
management, written presentation, and critical thinking, which is quite different from the
competencies that I have and used for a specific reason or regarding a situation. It is fact that
written presentation skill is effective, because it benefits innovators, like me to present their
creative thoughts, and ideas, in comprehending manner. It allows me to write the details about a
concept, which I think, in prescribe way, so that other can understand it completely and
appropriately. It becomes one of the best communication sources that further I can use to reach
desire results, such as to share information with those who are taking interest in my creative
ideas and also have power to support making them into practical way.
Another development opportunity, that I want to gain is critical thinking skill. I am good
to thinking creatively, but still there are some areas where I need to think critically, which is
important for me to do that. I tend to develop this skill during the period of innovative practice,
which aid to achieve the key goals and objectives. It makes me capable to take better and right
decisions, related to my work, either personal or professional. Along with these benefits, by
developing critical thinking skill I can gain advantage of improving my performance and
effectiveness as an innovator, who is accountable to conduct varied practices and actions. With
the current form of competency, I can make my creativity much better than the other people, who
are seeking to innovative some new products or service. It makes my confidence level higher
than last few years or months, where I am responsible to accomplish a project or task, by
showing some creativity appropriately and systematically.
The most important thing, for an innovator is to make their time, which permit them to
show some creativity and innovate new things, that influence people. I want to improve time

management skill, over the time period of conducting innovative practice. In the recent time,
number of skills are expected to have among innovators, because it gives them chance to achieve
the set and prioritize goals. By improving time management skill, in the future, I can perform
unpredictably. With time management competency, individual can make a good schedule of their
daily work, which make things quite easier to accomplish in the first or second attempt.
With time management capability, I feel more capable to focus on further growth and
success of my career, which is also quite essential for me to concentrate on, like focusing on
other activities and practices. It helps me to reach desire results and focus on in the future aim
setting.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it has been concluded that individual has developed
knowledge and number of skills, which makes them a professional innovator. It has been
determined that personal performance evaluation has contributed to developed number of
competencies, which outcomes in form of presenting some innovative things.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Au-Yong-Oliveira, M. and Walter, C. E., 2022. Innovators and Anti-innovators in the Digital
Era–The Persecution of the Innovative by the Less Innovative. In World Conference on
Information Systems and Technologies (pp. 83-92). Springer, Cham.
El Barnoussi, A. and van Beest, F., 2022. Questioning the Ability of the Discussion Paper
Business Combinations under Common Control in Improving Decision
Usefulness. Australian Accounting Review. 32(2). pp.214-219.
Mehlich, J., 2022. Technology assessment in the STEM curriculum: Teaching responsible
research and innovation skills to future innovators. TATuP-Zeitschrift für
Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis. 31(1). pp.22-27.

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