Create a culture that promotes innovation at all levels and encourages all employees to do more creative thinking.

 Duration: 1 Day

 Who will benefit from this workshop?

 Managers at all levels and organization development leaders who need to encourage faster innovation and wider ownership for creating the future.

 Workshop objective

 To develop insight into the cultural factors that stimulate innovation and acquire skills for fostering a more innovative culture.

 Workshop overview

• Develop insight into why innovation is so difficult, what cultural factors and practices block or suppress innovation and how to change them.
• Differentiate between types of innovation, continuous improvement and creativity; product versus process innovation.
• Identify the key cultural drivers that promote and sustain innovation in successful organizations that are innovation leaders.
• Learn how to foster ownership for cultural changes that stimulate faster innovation.
• Develop innovation objectives and key performance indicators to measure the success of innovation initiatives.
• Understand the process and benefits of bottom-up versus top-down innovation.
• Learn how to integrate innovation objectives with strategy, vision and mission.
• How to use networking techniques, social media, the 'wisdom of crowds' and other modern sources of information to ensure a broad flow of innovative ideas.
• Understand the stages of innovation from creative ideas to productive outcomes and how to manage each stage.
• The role of creative thinking and employee engagement in supporting innovation.
• The role of managers in fostering innovation within their teams.

Workshop benefits

• Deeper understanding of how innovation works, what cultural factors support it and how to implement them effectively.
• Insight from successful innovation efforts in public and private sector organizations.
• Clarity around connections between innovation, strategy, creative thinking and other drivers of organizational prosperity.
• The confidence and skills to create a more innovative culture that is self-sustaining.

Other Workshops

1. The Engaging Manager - develop the skills of managers to better engage employees, gain their commitment and elevate their potential.
2. Excelling as a New Manager - learn how to make an effective transition from individual contributor to manager.
3. Are You a Change Agent? - assess a manager's potential to be a change agent and develop change management skills.
4. Leading Across the Organization - learn how to show leadership across and up as well as down.
5. How to Create an Engaging Culture - how to change an organization's culture to foster better employee engagement.
6. Fostering Greater Collaboration - how to improve collaboration across an organization.
7. Creating an Innovative Culture - how to develop a more innovative business culture.

Workshops are generally one day in length but they can be longer and more in depth as required. Follow up individual and/or group coaching is also offered where requested, bearing in mind that skill development is a process not an event. Individual and group coaching both take the form of reviewing what seems to be working and what isn't going so well and brainstorming optional approaches to specific issues. Group coaching has the added advantage of providing opportunities for the original workshop participants to share experiences and learn from each other.