Session Length Options: Six 120-minute virtual sessions
Overview:
Finding your company’s “second act” has never been more important. In the past, new products and distribution methods were adopted according to a familiar bell-shaped curve. Innovators and early adopters first, followed by a vast majority, and finally the laggards. All that has changed. The new product (and technical adoption) now looks like a Shark Fin – a few trial users and a very large steep spike of everyone else. Today’s marketplace is a series of rapid-fire Shark Fins hitting one after another. For leaders, the question is not whether to pivot, but rather how to efficiently drive a successful change of direction.
Target Audience:
Leadership teams, new product organizations, sales functions – any group that has to quickly create new strategic thinking to help their business thrive.
The Problem:
McKinsey’s Global Innovation Survey found that 84% of executives agree that innovation is essential for their business growth. However, only 6% of those same executives were satisfied with the outcomes of their innovation efforts. Many leaders reported struggling with problem identification and how to improve their innovation processes.
Our Solution:
To Learn to…
Define creativity and the innovative thinking process
Detail the characteristics of each step of the process
Strengths and contributions
Blind spots and ways they annoy others
Divergent and convergent thinking
Assess personal and team innovation preferences
Diagnose the assisters and resisters to innovation among the team and in the greater organization
Generate new and novel thinking around a real-world challenge or opportunity that will help the business pivot
Course Outline:
Complete the FourSight® Innovative Thinking assessment (prework)
Define creativity and innovation
Overview of the four steps in the innovative thinking process
Review assessment results to better understand oneself
Examine the team’s profile – their innovation strengths and struggles
Conduct a deep dive on a key business issue by applying tools to
Clarify the problem
Brainstorm new high-potential ideas
Develop a detailed solution
Create an implementation action plan
Embed facilitation skill-building for each step in the innovation process
Need A Live Virtual Instructor-led Workshop?
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