An interactive and scaleable online course for leaders, managers, and team members—designed to be low cost and yet high impact—to unlock mission-critical skills in creative problem-solving, breakthrough thinking, and smart experimentation that can unlock breakthrough innovations and build an innovation culture.
KEY
BENEFITS FOR
PARTICIPANTS
Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Course Benefits
- Understand why creativity, experimentation, and innovation are critical to “winning the future” in fast-changing markets
- Discover how to avoid wasting precious money, energy, time, and reputational capital in ineffective innovation activities
- Learn how to access the brain’s creative thinking and imagination capabilities
- Discover how to define problems in ways that maximize the changes of breakthrough solutions
- Explore how to find and leverage value-creating customer/user insights
- Learn how to design smart experiments that derisk innovation and loosen perfectionist cultures
- Build strength in “fail-forward” attitudes that can unlock innovation cultures
- Experience and learn from an abridged breakthrough innovation process
KEY
BENEFITS FOR
BUYERS
Benefits of This Course For Buyers—HR Business Partners, L&D Managers, Line Managers
- Designed to maximize the unique capabilities of live online training
- Optimized for hybrid and dispersed teams, international operations, and cost/travel constraints
- Quick and painless set-up for rapid implementation
- Low time burden for both HR managers and participants
- Highly interactive live sessions to maximize engagement and self-improvement
- Peer-to-peer and small group circles to unlock much-desired interpersonal connection and togetherness
- Easy-to-follow sessions with a balanced mix of accessible science, essential ideas, sticky concepts, practical tips
- Seasoned facilitators who can "hold space" for concrete individual and collective mindset and behavior change
- Unlimited numbers of participants for low-cost scale
- Proprietary, print-at-home take-away tools for sustained impact "in the flow of work"
- Branded online dashboard for easy and ongoing access to slides and materials
- Session videos are edited and put onto your learner dashboard for participants that are unable to attend live sessions
- Animated cohort learning community (via messaging app) to spark excitement, integration, and meaningful action
CORE
LEARNING
CONTENT
Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Course Content
- Why innovation is critical to survive and thrive in relentless and ruthless change and complexity
- How innovation and creative problem-solving are very different ways of approaching challenges vs. traditional problem-solving
- The conditions needed to unlock genuine innovation—and why and how the corporate immune system seeks to control and block it by default
- A summary of how brains work in terms of creative thinking, imagination, and breakthroughs and how to hack our nervous system to increase creative outcomes
- How to define problems in ways that lead to breakthroughs and creative outcomes
- How to leverage customer/user insight to unfold creative concepts and define concepts so they can be evaluated effectively
- How to design low-cost and low-profile prototypes and experiments that derisk innovation and provide essentially “fail-forward” learning on solutions
- Tools and practices for creativity, comfort with uncertainty, and embracing of positive failure
PROPRIETARY
INTERACTIVE
SOL
TOOLS
Interactive Takeaway Tools Provided On The Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Course
REPEATABLE
SOL
LEADERSHIP
PRACTICES
The Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Leadership Practices Learned On The Course
- Unlocking empathy for customer/ consumer/ user insight
- Empathy mapping
- Negative capability (comfort with not knowing)
- Assumption surfacing
- State switching for creative problem-solving
- Connect before correct
- Failing forward
COURSE
DESIGN &
STRUCTURE
The Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Course Design Overview
- 6 x 4-hour online sessions
- Sessions every 2-4 weeks (avoiding vacation periods)
- 1 or 2 timezones (if global team)
- Online dashboard
- Community activation (messaging app)
ONLINE SESSION
DESIGN &
STRUCTURE
The Creative Thinking, Innovation & Experimentation Course Session Design
- Check-in and group presence and settling practice
- Introduction to the thinking and tools
- Tool usage by each participant (solo and peer-to-peer)
- Breakouts for group reflection and integration
- Q&A/clinic
- Homework & check out
“I left like I’d just been called to serve in the army. Motivated, inspired, provoked, and challenged.”
People Manager, International Bank
High Impact Yet Low Cost: What Makes Our Training Courses Different
Each course is centered around one or more of our scaleable 1-page transformation tools and/or self-managed or peer-powered toolkits, which unlock remarkable interactivity and accountability.
The tools are reusable, and the course costs include a lifetime license for each participant.
All our courses are hosted and guided live by an experienced facilitator to ensure engagement, accountability, and much-appreciated interconnectivity between participants.
Low Time Burden.
Low Cost.
Easy To Implement.
Quick To Start.
100% Virtual.
100% Live.
100% Interactive.
100% Empowering.
Designed For
Hybrid Working.
Dispersed Teams.
Budget / Travel Constraints.
Drive Outsized
Engagement.
Connectivity.
Growth.
Ownership.
Accessible Science.
Essential Ideas.
Sticky Concepts.
Practical Tips.
Take Away Tools.
Change Mindsets, Habits & Behaviors "In The Flow Of Work"
“Changed mindsets and behaviors across the business in critical areas of creativity, empowerment, and collaboration.”
Global HR Director, Unilever
Our Experience In Training, Learning & Development
100,000+ people developed
220+ leadership development programs
150+ learning & development courses
100+ takeaway tools
10+ leadership toolkits
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our leaders!”
Global HR Director, Intel
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