Leading High Performance Innovation Cultures
Energize and Improve Your Company’s Innovation Quotient
In association with Solid Consulting
1-Day Interactive Workshop (English)
Designed for: Senior leaders and executives, line managers, organizational development professionals and senior HR professionals
Date: 1 March 2010
Place: Istanbul
Fee: 1000 USD + VAT
Location: http://www.pointhotel.com/barbaros/
Register with Solid Consulting by reaching Pelin Urgancilar by e-mail at pelin.urgancilar@solidtr.com
In Brief
We hear the word innovation in every corporate brief, and see the word in every value statement globally. So what makes one organization more innovative than another? Is it possible to improve the 'innovation quotient' of the organization?
There are clear, well-validated methods for creating and sustaining innovation in organizations - all adaptable to size, sector and geography. Equally there are pitfalls that prevent companies from achieving innovation success. Optimizing innovation in all organizations depends on critical, learnable leadership behaviors.
So what is the magic that happens in an innovation machine, from a new idea being created to demonstrable value being realized from it?
This workshop will reveal key drivers -human, process and cultural - that fuel, or inhibit, the dynamics of innovation.
You Will Learn
• Key leader behaviors that support innovation
• How to build a system of metrics and accountability that sustains and validates innovation
• How to utilise critical thinking processes to support innovation and limit the thinking processes that inhibit it
• Tools and techniques for better idea creation and selection
• A scientifically validated, creative process to drive from fuzzy goals to value-creating solutions
With practical, international examples of successes and failures in the creation of innovation cultures, Bob Eckert will provide a clear, practical perspective on how to drive the innovation culture you need to grow value in your organization.
Workshop Highlights
• Identify which of the 10 types of innovation are most likely to net your unique organization new value
• Uncover your personal strengths and growth opportunities with respect to your innovation leadership style
• Explore the 6 steps of the Creative Process and find the hidden opportunities in a more robust innovation cycle
• Get “hands on” practice with tools for both creating and selecting innovative opportunities
• Get “minds on” practice with finding valuable opportunities in the people around you
About the Facilitator
Bob Eckert, CEO, New & Improved®, LLC
Bob helps create growth through innovation leadership and is globally respected as an expert on the science and practice of innovation. For the last 15 years, Bob has worked primarily with multi-national organizations and governments to foster increased leadership, productivity, and innovation in their cultures, people, products, services and processes. A very diverse background over the last 30 years has been instrumental in training him to work in a wide range of settings with sticky, complex dynamics. Psychotherapist, Neuropharmacology trainer, wilderness guide, manufacturing facility owner, retail manager, tree farmer, innovation specialist, group process facilitator, husband and dad. Essentially, his craft is helping people be more effective in their work and lives, so that they can improve the organization’s impact and bottom line.
About New & Improved®
New & Improved®, LLC, is one of the most globally respected organizational development firms focusing on the people skills organizations need to create growth though innovation. They develop groups of individuals who excel at creative thinking and working productively together. They call this “Innovation Leadership.”
The partners at New & Improved are “sought after experts” in all things pertaining to innovation. The firm employs only the most senior and experienced innovation practitioners, trainers, facilitators and coaches. Their teaching, research and publications influence the entire field of practice, and they are often the featured speakers and trainers at conferences for innovation practitioners.
Their approach combines assessment, training, facilitation, and executive coaching to create innovation programs, creative thinking workshops and organizational development strategies that provide new skills, methods, tools & techniques and approaches for the work your people do and the challenges they face. You end up with a sustainable culture of innovation that drives growth in revenue.
For more information on New & Improved visit: www.newandimproved.com
Agenda:
09:30 Welcome, introduction and outline of objectives
10:00 Key blocks and barriers to sustained innovation
• Many organizations speak of the need for innovation, but why do so few deliver steadily?
• Using the four innovation enablers: People, Process, Culture and Organizational Systems
• Broadening the focus: The 10 types of innovation and how to access them
10:45 The way of the innovation leader
• The five personal strengths of the innovation leader and how to energies them in yourself and your people
11:45 The impact of creative style preference
• Gaining personal and systems insights using the FourSight Breakthrough
13:30 Energizing curiosity
• Methods for feeding the creative engine of innovation by energizing curiosity in yourself and your people
14:00 Building structures to sustain innovation over the long haul
• Common organizational mistakes on the innovation road and how to overcome them
• The right time and place? IT enabled idea management systems
14:45 The systems approach
• The Open Architecture: Creative Process Overview
• Creative problem solving, Synectics, Kepner Tregoe, TRIZ, DeBono and others. Which is best?
• Metrics and accountability: What works?
15:45 The Big Picture If intentional innovation is the new organizational differentiator, what are the implications for the future of commerce?
16:45 Wrap-up
Resources to sustaining your learning
17:00 End of Workshop
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