Unlock Your Company’s Second Act with Trainsmart’s Corporate Innovation Leadership Training

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, finding your company’s “second act” is more crucial than ever. Gone are the days of the familiar bell-shaped adoption curve. It’s all about the Shark Fin – a lightning-fast spike of mass adoption. To thrive in this new reality, leaders must master the art of efficient pivoting and strategic change management.

Trainsmart’s Corporate Innovation Leadership Training is designed specifically for leadership teams, new product organizations, and sales functions—any group that needs to develop new strategic thinking to drive business success swiftly. Our virtual instructor-led program comprises six 120-minute sessions, providing a comprehensive and immersive learning experience.

Target Audience:

Leadership teams, new product organizations, sales functions – any group that has to create new strategic thinking to help their business thrive quickly.

The Problem:

McKinsey’s Global Innovation Survey found that 84% of executives agree that innovation is essential for 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

Corporate Innovation Leadership Training 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 understand oneself better
  • Examine the team’s profile – their innovation strengths and struggles
  • Conduct a deep dive on a critical 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

Corporate Innovation Leadership Training FAQs

What is corporate innovation leadership training?

Corporate innovation leadership training helps leadership teams develop the mindset, tools, and process needed to identify business challenges, generate new ideas, and create practical solutions. TrainSMART’s program focuses on helping organizations pivot quickly, improve innovation outcomes, and build stronger strategic thinking during periods of rapid change.

Who should attend corporate innovation leadership training?

This training is designed for leadership teams, new product organizations, sales functions, and any group responsible for creating new strategic thinking. It is especially valuable for teams that need to respond quickly to market changes, identify growth opportunities, improve innovation performance, or develop solutions to real business challenges.

Why do companies struggle with innovation?

Companies often struggle with innovation because they lack a clear process for identifying problems, generating ideas, and turning concepts into action. Many leaders know innovation is important but are unsure where efforts break down. This training helps teams diagnose barriers, understand innovation preferences, and improve how ideas move forward.

What is the FourSight® Innovative Thinking assessment?

The FourSight® Innovative Thinking assessment helps individuals and teams understand their preferences in the innovation process. It reveals strengths, blind spots, and collaboration patterns, allowing teams to better understand how they approach creativity, problem solving, divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and implementation.

What skills are taught in this corporate innovation program?

Participants learn how to define creativity and innovation, understand each step of the innovative thinking process, assess team preferences, identify assisters and resisters to innovation, clarify business challenges, brainstorm high-potential ideas, develop solutions, and create implementation action plans for real-world business opportunities.

How is the training delivered?

TrainSMART’s Corporate Innovation Leadership Training is delivered as a virtual, instructor-led program comprising six 120-minute sessions. This format gives participants time to learn, apply tools, review assessment results, work through a real business challenge, and build innovation facilitation skills across the full process.

Can this training use our organization’s real business challenges?

Yes. The program is designed to apply innovation tools to a real-world challenge or opportunity facing your organization. Teams work through the process of clarifying the problem, generating ideas, developing a detailed solution, and creating an implementation action plan that can support business growth.

What outcomes can organizations expect from this training?

Organizations can expect stronger strategic thinking, better problem identification, improved collaboration on innovation, and clearer action plans. Leadership teams will gain a shared language for innovation, understand team strengths and blind spots, and become better equipped to generate, evaluate, and implement high-potential ideas.

Invest In Corporate Innovation Training For Your Team

Ready to discuss your live virtual instructor-led training needs for innovation leadership training for your group? Schedule a call at 800-807-8030 or fill out the form below. We look forward to connecting with you.