Surviving and thriving in today’s uncertain
business environment requires the ability of the company to reinvent
and innovate. As external marketplace factors shift, such as
demographics, new competition and geopolitical factors, companies
need the internal capability and skills to depart from conventional
thinking. In addition, if creativity is the generating of new ideas,
innovation is the ability to sort, prioritize, and successfully
implement new ideas.
What should leaders do to create this culture
of innovation? Learn and apply the mindsets, toolsets and skill sets
of successful corporate innovators to challenging business issues.
Innovating for Results is a new innovation workshop. This one
day workshop is designed to offer participants innovation techniques
that can be applied to challenging business issues such as:
Innovating for Results encourages participants to see themselves as
innovators in the company, thus setting a culture in motion
that can develop and implement successful solutions to current
business problems. Participants emerge from the workshop
ready with a specific plan of action for themselves and their team.
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Develop a mindset that challenges conventional thinking and practices
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Learn innovation techniques such as bisociative thinking, that can be
applied to generate breakthrough solutions
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Develop skill at implementing toolsets that help to eliminate corporate
barriers to innovation
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Develop specific solutions to challenging business problems
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Identify coming trends that will affect the success of the company
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Become an “innovator” in the company
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Specific strategies and actions for positively impacting all areas that
are important to the company, including those that need
improvement
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Preparedness to communicate an action plan to their manager and other
stakeholders in the company
Innovating For Results Participant Guide and Action Plan
Line managers, supervisors, and individual
contributors
1. Why Innovating For Results?
2. Partner With Uncertainty
3. Invent the Solution
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Think like A Beginner
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Look for Exceptions
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Sacred Cow Round-Up
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Mess With Success
4. Take Risks (Not Chances)
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Leverage Strengths
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Do Your Homework
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Fear of Trying
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Sell Your Solution
This
workshop includes two fifteen minute follow-up coaching calls, scheduled after the
workshop, to ensure implementation of the participant’s action plan
and to support ongoing Strategy brainstorming and adjustments (based
on specific company situations).
