April 10-13, 2008 at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort
Pre-Summit Innovation Master Class
Open to the first 40 ii2008 Registrants at no additional cost!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Can Innovation be Taught? Where did the methodologies presented on this full-day retreat come from? View the full two day version of the Innovation Master Class
A full-day, intensive session that will build your skills and capabilities in the areas of innovation, with a proven set of tools and individualized analysis that has been deployed in many of the world's largest organizations.
The Executive Retreat on Innovation Management will focus on what is fast becoming one of the core competencies for survival in the global economy. As globalization reshapes the competitive landscape, individuals and organizations are realizing that growing their innovative capacity is the only way to build leadership and sustain it.
But wait a minute.... You say you are already innovative, you have these skills and capabilities?
So quick - list five different methods or tools that you use on a regular basis to create innovation in yourself, your people, and your organization. Can you do that? Don't be dissuaded. Most people can't get beyond brainstorming. We unfortunately regard innovation as a combination of serendipity, mysticism, and brute force - but there is more, much more. Innovation is a process. It involves steps, tools, and creative problem solving skills that can be taught.With these exclusive tools, you and your organization can increase your ability to deal with higher levels of uncertainty and achieve a renewed emphasis on core competency. The results of process-driven innovation are measured in faster execution, shorter time to market, better success rates with new ideas, higher margins, more satisfied customers, and ultimately, a more competitive organization with more marketable skills.
In this fast-paced retreat, you will:
- Learn the core skills needed to become a master at innovation,
- Take a self-assessment test to determine your innovative profile,
- Learn how to assess the innovative profile of others,
- Review multiple collaborative techniques and methods to take you well beyond brainstorming,
- Learn how other organizations are leveraging their innovative capabilities,
- Receive the tools and methods for team-based creative problem solving.
Most of all, you will have an inordinate amount of fun participating in all of this.
Join us for a day that promises to reinvent what innovation means to you and your organization.
We have built a series of workshops for you to learn these skills that will push your creativity to the limit and help you go back to your organization with a wealth of knowledge, skill and confidence which you can immediately transfer to practical tasks and challenges.
The Innovation Workshops
What You Will Learn:
- Define your own personal style preferences in relation to solving problems and managing change,based on the VIEW assessment,
- Describe the implications of problem-solving style for individuals, teams, and groups,
- Define creative and critical thinking and give examples of their importance in your professional setting,
- Identify and give examples of four guidelines to follow when generating options, and four guidelines to follow when focusing options,
- Name, explain, and apply five proven tools to help you generate more options, a greater variety of options, and options that are novel or unusual,
- Name, explain, and apply five proven tools to help you to analyze and refine new options and to turn interesting possibilities into useful solutions.
The Program Offers You Many Important Benefits. You Will:
- Learn helpful tools that can be used individually,or in a group,to deal effectively with many different kinds of tasks and challenges,
- Increase your ability to create fresh new possibilities and put them to work immediately in your own personal life and your business, profession, or organization,
- Discover new ways to work more effectively and productively with your co-workers and clients,
- Understand the importance of creativity and innovation in the workplace with supporting metrics and business examples.
The VIEW Survey:
- Reinforces the fact that everyone is creative, just in different ways,
- Explains the three dimensions and their relevance to the workplace,
- Discusses the pro’s and con’s of your preferred styles,
- Helps you better understand how you can maximize your effectiveness at work and in your personal life,
- Dramatically helps improve team formation and contribution,
- Helps leverage the corporations ROI from its employee base.
The TOOLS Workshop:
- Demonstrates the value of having a ‘toolkit’ of Generating and Focusing tools (not just brainstorming),
- Helps the students learn and use ‘10’ new tools (five generating, five focusing), with the learning experience taking only 20 minutes per tool,
- Involves the students in a number of relevant case studies from the workplace that help demonstrate both the power and the applicability of the tools,
- Broadens the students self-awareness, and helps 'push' them to new limits,
- Shows the students how to cascade the skills throughout the organization for increased ROI.
The Instant Challenges:
- Ensure everybody participates,
- Get the creative juices flowing,
- Reinforce the 'power' of effective teams,
- Provide numerous life/business lessons that can be learned,
- Add fun/energy/excitement to the day, and increase retention.