InnovationTraining.org

APRIL 28, 2020

Design Thinking Coaching: 1on1 or Group. We can connect you to an excellent design thinking coach who can help you apply design thinking in your own work, with your teams, and within your organization. Here’s an example of what a design thinking coaching program could look like with Tom.

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InnovationTraining.org

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We have collaborated with over 100 organizations for a variety of in-person and virtual innovation, design thinking, and leadership workshops and events. One of our favorite topic focus areas is helping people lead and facilitate design thinking for a culture (and mindset) of innovation. Design thinking in action.

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InnovationTraining.org

JULY 9, 2020

In today’s post, we’ll explore how design thinking for the future of work can help businesses and organizations struggling to adapt to new workplace requirements and needs. . Design Thinking At Work. Design Thinking Workshops and Training. A Changing Landscape.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Nuanced Art of Leadership: When to Step in and When to Guide When it comes to team dynamics and organizational behavior, leadership remains a constant beacon guiding the ship. Leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Understanding the Leadership Balance Stepping into a leadership role is akin to becoming a gardener.

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InnovationTraining.org

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. Develop a design thinking mindset for your own skill enhancement. Who should take this Zoom training workshop? Additional training resources for Zoom. Apply a virtual facilitation toolkit approach.

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InnovationTraining.org

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Advice for planning and facilitating successful corporate, executive, and leadership retreats. That’s where leadership retreats come in! This time can be spent training the leadership team’s natural abilities to support the organization and its goals. What is a leadership or executive retreat?

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 7, 2020

Learn about the latest training trends and practices here. Leveraging the latest research insights, you can continue to stay on top of the growing needs of your employees and develop a corporate training and development strategy that helps everyone succeed. Personalized training paths. Experiential learning.

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Idea to Value

DECEMBER 13, 2022

2023 could turn out to be one of the hardest for innovation and leadership teams in decades… … or, with the right focused effort, it could be one of the best. Yet with the right information and training this problem can be easily fixed. Get alignment and clarity about your success criteria. Upskill your workforce.

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Tullio Siragusa

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Walk into any of their flagship stores, and you’ll witness employees who’ve undergone rigorous training to maintain this gold standard. Design Thinking: Sculpting Business Personality A business’s personality is like an iceberg. Brainstorm ways to bridge the gap between the current and the aspirational personality.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Importance of Fostering Innovation in Leadership Defining Innovation Culture An innovation culture refers to the values, behaviors, and norms that ensure an organization not only generates new ideas but also executes them to achieve positive outcomes.

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Tullio Siragusa

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Companies should invest in design thinking, ethnographic research and other human-centric innovation methods. However, human ingenuity and thinking-outside-the-box remain indispensable. Use design thinking approaches to empathize with customers and question assumptions. Empathy and intuition remain indispensable.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If you’re in the Chicago or Denver areas, check out these innovation training course offerings. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking. This essential training for leaders and project managers provides answers, and from an industry thought leader. Innovation Intensive, Beyond Design Thinking.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

When it comes to innovation leadership, keynote speakers can: Show how leaders can set a precedent for innovation within their teams. Keynote speakers often emphasize the need for creating an environment where brainstorming is encouraged and every idea is valued. Demonstrating how to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Training Accelerates Innovation. Energy is Not Enough, Get Training in Innovation . And yes, this can be trained. Hiring a professional facilitator can be a big help, but facilitative leadership is something that needs to be around 100% of the time. Your innovation efforts will fail without training.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Empowering their teams with technology and creative tools that guide their brainstorming sessions goes a long way in changing the outcome. In this post, we’ll share some tips and hints centered around innovation and design thinking frameworks to help you deliver an engaging and impactful experience. marathon” = 24-48 hour event.

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InnovationTraining.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Reach out for advanced help with a vision or mission statement training workshop to engage others in collaboratively creating a vision. . Enlist your leadership team in the development process for these critical, organizational-defining ideas and bring this clarity downward to every aspect of the organization. Brainstorming templates.

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Idea to Value

JULY 21, 2017

However, in every case, it is beneficial for a company to look inwards and see whether their people, processes and leadership are acting more as innovation enablers, or bottlenecks. bringing to light inefficiencies which leadership would not be aware of). What is it: Every company knows about brainstorming.

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InnovationTraining.org

AUGUST 26, 2021

We help organizations discover how to build innovation and design thinking strategies into their workplace environments, start and lead innovation teams, and keep up the process of innovating every day. Leadership is also a key factor in successful innovation teams. Innovative Innovation Meetings: Formats, Designs, and Examples.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 6, 2024

Learn more about the synergy of these concepts in our comprehensive guide on high performance leadership teams through psychological safety & experiential intelligence. In the context of leadership, it involves tapping into personal and professional experiences to make informed decisions, foster innovation, and guide teams effectively.

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Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 2, 2023

Design thinking can be a useful approach to conduct market research and understand the target market’s needs, competitors, and market trends. Here are some key steps to use design thinking when conducting market research: Empathize: Understand the target market’s needs, pain points, and challenges.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 17, 2021

The 30 minute weekly webinar features demonstrations of various facilitation tools for: strategy, challenge clarification, idea generation (aka brainstorming), problem framing, idea selection, innovation projects, and idea development, etc. Thinking Differently Takes Tools. At some point everybody needs to think differently.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Management: A flexible approach to management and governance which enables leadership to understand direction and progress, but gives authority to the team to do their best work with reduced bureaucracy. Leadership: Guidance and support from executives in the company to build an organisational culture where new ideas can be pushed.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Providing Necessary Tools and Resources: Empowering employees with the right tools, training, and access to information is critical. Overcoming this requires effective change management strategies, including clear communication of the benefits and training for managers to adapt to new roles as facilitators rather than dictators of policy.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 2, 2021

This board provides a sequence of activities that facilitators can follow during their innovative meetings or training sessions. With a step-by-step modular structure, you can browse through existing design thinking exercises and move them around to structure your meeting and fit your unique goals or needs.

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Gregg Fraley

APRIL 22, 2019

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.). A lot of innovation training is happy talk, or super-wonky detail talk.

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Gregg Fraley

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Professional Facilitation and/or Training Makes a Difference*. Seven Facilitation Fails: Most innovation project managers haven’t been trained in facilitation. Those who have been trained, don’t get enough practice. As an example, most brainstorming sessions fail because the challenge is not properly framed.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

In fact, if they become seen as leadership lip service, they can actually lower morale and stifle the very innovation you want most. Leadership realistically expects that the vast majority of the company’s innovation will smaller tweaks that advance the core business. The event is much more than training.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 1, 2018

Frameworks assume: engaged leadership, talent on the team, day to day creativity, curiosity, and domain knowledge. You will fail with: Lean, Agile, Design Thinking, TRIZ, Stage-Gate, Osborn-Parnes CPS, KILN’s FuseTrail, or a homegrown/blended framework. An authentic desire to improve or invent.

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Leapfrogging

JANUARY 5, 2017

In fact, if they become seen as leadership lip service, they can actually lower morale and stifle the very innovation you want most. Leadership realistically expects that the vast majority of the company’s innovation will smaller tweaks that advance the core business. The event is much more than training.

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Gregg Fraley

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Consider a Brown Bag Innovation Training or Immersion in Innovation Concepts. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training?

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2021

It wouldn’t be difficult to completely reimagine the professional learning space or teacher training. You can use startup principles with the same intentions as design thinking (or should we say Human Centered Design as that empathy piece is so vital in any/all innovation), but the process gives you a bit more flexibility to get going.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 20, 2020

At JR Simplot, a new cross-functional innovation initiative recently formed looking for ideas that would help optimize company efficiency, improve training programs, and more. And when they built this team, they realized that a big part of launching an innovation initiative was education. Learn more in this podcast.

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Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 30, 2016

Thinking about things is not innovation. Brainstorming sessions are not innovation. Design Thinking is not innovation. DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats are not innovation. Training is not innovation. Unless they are in the context of an actual project. Idea Campaigns are not innovation.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership 1. Senior team not aligned or embracing Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. While this works sometimes, it’s a lot better to gain air coverage from leadership to carve out some funding on the side and get a multi-year investment.

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Econic

APRIL 10, 2018

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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Gregg Fraley

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Innovating with digital technology requires a blended approach, truly diverse teams, training, and new ideation methods. Because it requires unique thinking skills to understand what’s possible technically, and , think up meaningful-to-consumers inventions and applications. Consider buying strategic research.

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Econic

MAY 23, 2019

Vision & Leadership. Involve senior leadership in crafting (or refining) your organization’s innovation thesis. If you absolutely can’t get alignment across the senior leadership team, find the champion(s) that most align with your innovation thesis and partner with them to get some early success stories.

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