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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Design Thinking Culture of Innovation Culture Design 52

Tullio Siragusa

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Social Dimension of Well-being The social aspect of well-being in leadership involves building positive relationships, fostering a sense of belonging, and creating a supportive network within the organization. These programs can include retreats, workshops, and ongoing support groups to sustain the practice.

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Leadership Case Study Exercises Culture 62

InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Design more innovative innovation meetings that boost creativity and strengthen engagement. 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. Implementation: 6 Questions to Help You Design Innovative Meetings.

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Meeting Examples Design Brainstorming 106

Be-novative

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Design Thinking sessions?—?facilitated facilitated personally Winners of the online challenge, the top 8–12 teams per continent, 240 people overall made it personally to the 3 Hackathon events : Budapest, Mumbai and Dallas. In Budapest, the teams went through several Design Thinking Sprints throughout the Hackathon day.

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Design Thinking Disruption Design Collaboration 40

Be-novative

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After numerous experiences (and by numerous we mean with over 70 organizations), we identified some common innovation barriers that most groups seem to face. E.g. a wall decorated by employees, interactive lunches or team building events, flexible project teams. Let’s go over one of them?—?it’s Induce collaboration.

Creativity 40

Creativity eBook Tools LEAN 40

Gregg Fraley

AUGUST 22, 2018

Specifically: No fluidity in free-associative divergent thinking necessary to innovate — people do not know how to think like innovators! Teams and work groups don’t know how to be collaborative. The research that says brainstorming doesn’t work studied groups with no training and no facilitator.

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Training Idea Generation Innovation Creative Thinking 48

Innovation in Practice

JANUARY 12, 2018

This is how Mark McGuinness defines the term: “‘Brainstorming’ is such a common word that it’s often used to describe any meeting or conversation designed to generate ideas. The ‘criteria cued’ groups produce fewer ideas, but a larger number of high-quality ideas. And what is it actually useful for? Mark McGuinness ).

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Brainstorming Innovation Idea Generation Creativity 55

KindlingApp

JUNE 1, 2015

I instantly knew that the book contained the foundation of the culture I would hope to build in MidAmerica—my only question was whether the MidAmerica team was ready for it. Prior to my arrival the team had gone through two years of coaching, training, and team building to establish a foundation of trust.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Programs Culture 40

etventure

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Explain how today’s unpredictable marketplace drives the need for a much more agile and entrepreneurial mindset – based on an openness towards technological change, the use of methodologies such as design thinking, scrum for agile project management, a willingness to take risks, and a change in the company structure to a network organization.

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Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Agile Culture 56