Innovate Now
We are sometimes faced with tough business challenges that would benefit significantly from creative input from others. Yet we recognize that everyone is very busy with competing priorities. So how do we gather subject matter expertise and valuable perspectives, ideas and opinions from others while respecting their precious time?
This program will enable you to bring together a group of people to quickly come up with a strong, diverse set of creative solutions to a business challenge.
Audience
Leaders, Managers, Teams and Individual Contributors
Program Objectives
- Determine when a business challenge benefits from an "Innovate Now" process
- Plan the meeting:
- Decide what happens before, during and after the meeting
- Select the appropriate processes/exercises to run
- Quickly provide context and direction, streamlining ramp-up, alignment and focus
- Solicit innovative ideas from others using methods that create full participation and engagement, encourage informed risk-taking, and leverage participants’ diverse Innovation Styles
- Execute and apply a simple tool for effective and efficient solution selection
Outline
- Defining the “Innovate Now” process – the who, what, when, why and how for using it successfully
- Determining and applying the criteria for business challenges that would benefit from the “Innovate Now” process
- Before the meeting:
- Frame the challenge
- Select invitees, incorporating Innovation Styles results
- During the meeting: executing the Focus-Diverge-Converge idea gathering process:
- Focus: framing and articulating the challeng
- Diverge: three techniques for getting maximum diverse input
- Converge: two techniques for prioritizing and selecting the top ideas
- After the meeting:
- Plan: moving promising, potential solutions forward using “idea-motion”
- Communicate: keeping contributors informed and energized
Duration: Half Day
To find out more about innovation training for your organization, call us Toll Free at 1-888-467-7684 or email us.
Training and Learning
Solve a business challenge in under an hour