Innovating For Results

Description:
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.

Workshop Overview
Innovating for Results is a new innovation workshop.  This one to two-day workshop is designed to offer participants innovation techniques that can be applied to challenging business issues such as:

• Increasing Sales

• Improving Customer Service

• Product Development

• Team Communication

• Integrating New Companies

• Increasing Market Share

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.

Participant Outcomes

• Develop a mindset that challenges conventional thinking and practices

• Learn innovation techniques such as bisociative thinking, that can be applied to generate breakthrough solutions

• Develop skill at implementing toolsets that help to eliminate corporate barriers to innovation

• Develop specific solutions to challenging business problems

• Identify coming trends that will affect the success of the company

• Become an “innovator” in the company

• Specific strategies and actions for positively impacting all areas that are important to the company, including those that need improvement

• Preparedness to communicate an action plan to their manager and other stakeholders in the company

 Deliverables
Innovating For Results Participant Guide and Action Plan

Target Audience
Line managers, supervisors, and individual contributors

High-Level Workshop Outline

1.  Why Innovating For Results?

• 21 Conditions That Cry Out for Innovation

• Innovation TIPs for Leadership

2.  Partner With Uncertainty

• Surfer’s Rules

• Plan on Changing Your Plans

• Fire hosing

• Stoke New Ideas

3.  Invent the Solution

• Think like A Beginner

• Look for Exceptions

• Sacred Cow Round-Up

• Mess With Success

4.  Take Risks (Not Chances)

• Leverage Strengths

• Do Your Homework

• Fear of Trying

• Sell Your Solution