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Sustainability Workshops and Programs

InnovationTraining.org

Our area of interest (and service) is in applying our strength in facilitating innovation and design thinking collaboratively for groups to help them clarify challenges, generate ideas, and take action for the environment and sustainability in their respective place, community, or organization.

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Designing Unique Workshops is hard work

Paul Hobcraft

It is the value of having good, interactive, highly particpative workshops breaks much of those initial barriers to allow the hard work to begin in a more cohesive and collaborative way. Workshops can mean different things to different people.

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Storytelling for Transformation Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

We use design thinking to design and facilitate storytelling workshops. Our focus is helping people to take on a challenge to reflect on their life and work to create and design their own stories, and then prototype and test their stories out on their fellow workshop participants.

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Building Workshop Awareness

Guide 4 Innovating

Building the workshop ready for innovation is deliberately designed to help you think through many productive innovating and creative opportunities. Look constantly outside your organization to ‘see’ and collaborate from the values of applying open innovation principles and techniques.

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What You Need to Know Before Leading a Design Thinking Workshop

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Leading a design thinking workshop can completely transform your company for the better.

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Design Thinking & Workshops in VR (Virtual Reality)

InnovationTraining.org

Teach you how to design a VR workshop using an app called Zoe Immersive. In the “Ideate” step, VR could be used as a collaborative tool to facilitate brainstorming sessions and idea generation. How to Run a VR Design Thinking Workshop. Create your workshop space.

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8 surprising benefits of remote workshops

Board of Innovation

From improved efficiency and faster experimentation to introvert bravery, here are a few reasons why a digital collaboration might be a great choice. The post 8 surprising benefits of remote workshops appeared first on Board of Innovation. Thinking about a remote session?

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How to make virtual workshops work - during the workshop

Flying Fish Lab

In our last post, we shared some tips on how to start off on the right foot for your virtual workshops. In this second part of the series, we dive deeper into what you can do DURING the workshop. In short, you need to know how to make virtual workshops work for you.

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How to Increase Collaboration at Work: 4 Useful Steps

CMOE

Successful organizations are those that foster a collaborative work culture, but fully 86 percent of leaders and team members believe a lack of teamwork leads to project failure and team conflict. Collaboration is crucial to your team’s success but how can you increase collaboration at work?

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Collaborating on Zoom Guide: Remotely Facilitate a Virtual Meeting or Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Lead Innovative Meetings and Workshops with Zoom. Video conferencing software can help you lead engaging activities to collaborate virtually in real-time. Zoom is one of the most popular software from our research on top digital collaborative remote work tools.

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Community Collaboration Workshops Come in All Sizes

BrainZooming

The week included: Large scale community collaboration workshops – Nearly eighty students from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale gathered Monday night and a comparable number of Carbondale, IL residents assembled on Tuesday for community collaboration workshops to imagine the community’s future with Gigabit Internet capabilities. That is a huge change, and opens the door to some radically different future workshops.

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Creative Thinking Exercises – 2 Ways to Create Innovation Workshop Inspiration

BrainZooming

We facilitated a follow-up innovation workshop for an industrial client. In previous workshops, a large group convened and re-imagined a manufacturing process to improve quality, while maintaining costs and production efficiency. A follow-up workshop moved four of the process improvement concepts into detailed project planning. They requested a follow-up innovation workshop to inspire bigger, further out thinking.

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Creative Problem Solving Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

Discover what to expect at a creative problem solving workshop and when your organization could benefit from a training session. If your organization is interested in implementing these techniques, you’ll want to learn more about this framework and how you can get started with a creative problem solving training workshop here. . About Creative Problem Solving Training Workshops. Who are Creative Problem Solving Workshops For?

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Human-Centered Design Workshops

InnovationTraining.org

Find out what a human-centered design workshop encompasses and when your organization may benefit from a training here. If your organization is interested in becoming better at innovating with a human-centered design workshop, you’ll want to learn more about this evolving framework and how you can tap into its methodology here. A Human-Centered Design workshop will help you start and finish with the end user in mind.

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Business Storytelling Training Workshop

InnovationTraining.org

A business storytelling training workshop can help us to learn this craft and develop our communication skills. There are many workshops emerging designed to help leaders at many levels in organization communicate and innovate with greater impact through story. In our workshop we will lead you through activities and exercises to help you find, create, make, and share your own stories. Our workshops are highly interactive and engaging. Storytelling for Business Leaders.

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Collaborative Innovation – Hamburger Style

InnovationManagement

After spending more than five years in the collaborative innovation space, I would advise going hamburger style! Collaborative Innovation bottom-up campaign team collaborative innovation communication crowdvoting executive sponsor idea management ideation ideation contests innovation champions open innovation question suggestion box synergy top-down workshop

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Start off on the right foot with your virtual workshops

Flying Fish Lab

How to make virtual workshops work for you How to make virtual workshops work is still a challenge for some organisations, especially if they haven’t adapted their preparation procedures and techniques to suit the virtual space. How to make virtual workshops work?

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Start off on the right foot with your virtual workshops

Flying Fish Lab

How to make virtual workshops work for you How to make virtual workshops work is still a challenge for some organisations, especially if they haven’t adapted their preparation procedures and techniques to suit the virtual space. How to make virtual workshops work?

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

? Let remote collaboration and digital transformation open new doors for stabilization, recovery and future growth. This is the time for any organization to involve people to think together and share ideas, engage and progress collaboratively?—?even

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Best practices: How to facilitate a virtual workshop?

Be-novative

? Let remote collaboration and digital transformation open new doors for stabilization, recovery and future growth. This is the time for any organization to involve people to think together and share ideas, engage and progress collaboratively?—?even

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

Collaborative learning - the Core of the Hub We are excited to turn the wheel to interactive use-case driven ‘Spark Creativity’ sessions and dive deep into identifying success factors of remote facilitation techniques with our Partner Hub Members based on their projects, methods and use cases?—?this

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Solution Focused Reflective Practice in Collaborative Learning

Be-novative

Collaborative learning - the Core of the Hub We are excited to turn the wheel to interactive use-case driven ‘Spark Creativity’ sessions and dive deep into identifying success factors of remote facilitation techniques with our Partner Hub Members based on their projects, methods and use cases?—?this

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How to structure a hybrid brainstorming workshop

Svava

Brainstorming workshops are powerful tools for ideation, collaboration and innovation as a team and company. But how do you design a brainstorming workshop that fits your hybrid organisation? Select a template for, or develop a framework for your workshop.

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Virtual Design Thinking Workshop from Stanford D School

InnovationTraining.org

The Stanford D School have recently released a new Starter Kit designed for teams looking to host a virtual design thinking workshop or training session. Expect many partner activities and discussion points that can drive your workshop or training session forward.

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Podcast: Online workshops and meetings

Svava

In this pod (in Swedish) Idea Hunt’s Lotta Strand speaks with Jonas Jaani , digitalisation guru, about online workshops. Not presentation or decision meetings, but creative collaboration In today’s business environment a lot of meetings are held online (read: digital, online).

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Zoom Training for Innovating Virtual Workshops and Meetings

InnovationTraining.org

Innovate your virtual meetings through our design thinking-inspired Zoom facilitation training workshop. Our hands-on how-to workshop can walk you through how to contribute to and run a virtual workshop or session through an online meeting tool like Zoom.

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How to Run Remote Design Thinking Workshops

ITONICS

This leads to a couple of difficulties, especially when you are scheduled to hold an interactive and Design-Thinking-inspired workshop format that could neither be postponed nor be executed at the client facilities.

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Are you starving for powerful female leaders in your strategy planning workshop?

BrainZooming

We were facilitating report outs at a strategy planning workshop after multiple teams tackled developing high-level plans to improve various employee challenges in a relatively high-performing company. Chuck Dymer, who was co-facilitating the client workshop with me, remarked at the depth and importance of several of the report outs and the conversations they sparked. Brainzooming - All Posts Collaboration Diversity Performance Strategic Thinking Strategy

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5 Ideas for Expanding Innovation Strategy Workshop Participants

BrainZooming

Who should you invite to participate in an innovation strategy workshop ? We’ve written about three important strategic perspectives (general management, functional expertise, and people with creative energy) and three types of voices (traditional, challenger, and emerging) to include in any type of strategy workshop. We still hadn’t accounted for every department or tenure group that needed representation in the innovation strategy workshop.

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BUSINESS MODEL WARFARE: BOOK & WORKSHOP

InnovationLabs

And with it comes an awesome workshop experience. Anticipating the Future Business Model Innovation Collaboration and Co-Creation Creativity and Ideation Innovation Innovation Tools Strategy and InnovationOur newest book (and some say our best) is now available! The Book Many years in the making, with examples from hundreds of companies, dozens of graphics and models, and a complete implementation guide, this is the most complete book on business models ever written.

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How to empower leaders to build a better Culture of Collaboration using virtual facilitation…

Be-novative

How to empower leaders to build a better Culture of Collaboration using virtual facilitation techniques? Building a better Culture of Collaboration can be a challenging topic, especially when you are a consultant, hired to work with the leadership team of a company.

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How to facilitate a SWOT analysis workshop

Svava

SWOT Analysis workshops often use a template that breaks these four categories into quadrants. Traditionally these are paper templates that are used to record findings from a group of participants in a workshop setting. Next it’s time to actually conduct the workshop.

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Top Remote Working Software Tools to Innovate & Collaborate

InnovationTraining.org

Online collaboration tools for innovative work remotely. If you and your teams have found yourselves working more remotely, you may be interested in this collection of top remote working, meeting, communication and facilitation tools that can increase your collaboration, impact, productivity, and ease while working virtually or from home. Online Meetings, Workshops & Virtual Presentations. Online Whiteboarding, Ideation, & Collaborative Visualization.

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The Evolution of Workshops

Svava

Collaborative Meetings Matching Pace with Technology

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Is Online Collaboration Any Good?

100%Open

We believe that this situation could be pivotal in creating a watershed moment, whereby online collaboration rapidly accelerates and pushes for a cultural shift in terms of our daily work structures. And what of our online Collaboration Styles? When it comes to online meetings and workshops, it is vital to remember that we communicate with body language 100% of the time, regardless how much of it is seen. These certainly are uncertain times.

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15 Things to Look for in a Business Collaboration

BrainZooming

I mentioned upcoming business collaboration opportunities for Brainzooming yesterday , including co-presentations, creating content, and developing new workshop and training offerings. What to look for in a business collaboration? Shame on me, but I’ve never put the criteria I look for from a business collaboration into the type of strategic decision making tool we develop for clients. There is a mutual commitment to learning from the business collaboration.

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#6: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Involve the Powers

Flying Fish Lab

This way, you’ll know how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop, turn them into great proposals, and end up with a viable concept for a successful product. What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop? So, how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop?

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#6: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Involve the Powers

Flying Fish Lab

This way, you’ll know how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop, turn them into great proposals, and end up with a viable concept for a successful product. What happens to the list of great ideas from the workshop? So, how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop?

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Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Design Thinking for Collaboration: A COOs’ Guide to Cross-Functional Teams Innovation. By applying Design Thinking, COOs can increase collaboration within the company, encourage cross-functional teams, and foster a culture of experimentation and open communication.

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Innovation Teams Do Not Innovate

Innovation Excellence

In our first blog in this series of three blogs, we reinforced and validated the importance and role of collaboration.

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Every Company Needs an Innovation Coach

Braden Kelley

Innovation by its very nature, requires collaboration. Companies are … Continue reading → collaboration Innovation coaching Curiosity facilitation in-person training innovation advisor innovation advisory innovation coach innovation consulting innovation training Innovation Workshop Inspiration instructor-led training live training Open Innovation trainingInnovation is not a solo activity.

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Innovation Workshop Lessons – 6 Keys to Facilitating Executive Interviews

BrainZooming

The latest confirmation took place this week as we created and presented a new Brainzooming innovation workshop on how to develop insights to fuel innovation. We developed this new Brainzooming innovation workshop for the management team within the department leading the innovation push. We routinely present strategic thinking workshops on the exercises and tools The Brainzooming Group uses to develop and implement innovative ideas.

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12 Reasons Why Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration

BrainZooming

By and large, hotel meetings rooms suck for actually encouraging people to collaborate and work productively. Most of the time we have to go well beyond what hotels consider standard ways groups will use their meeting rooms when we’re trying to create an effective space for a Brainzooming creative thinking workshop. 12 Reasons Hotel Meeting Rooms Suck for Collaboration. The room configurations don’t allow for people to move around and collaborate with each other.

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