Course Description

Innovation isn't just about ideas - it requires a disciplined process to get all the way to a useful product or service. Your innovation team needs a clear process to follow to help focus your creative efforts. Your organisation can greatly benefit by setting up its own 'innovation factory' within the organisation to drive ongoing innovations and improvements - this course shows you how. Set up your team with the right creative mindset and confidence for effective innovation.

In this short course, learn how to -

  • Plan a disciplined and effective innovation process
  • Set up your own 'innovation factory' or 'ideas kindergarten' within your organisation that gives a focus to your innovation
  • Develop the creative habits of innovative organisations like Ideo and Lego
  • Manage your ideas teams and set up innovation space
  • Build creative confidence for higher impact ideas and team momentum
  • Practise creative 'tricks' to enhance your own creativity
  • Use the constrains of the process to increase your team's innovative productivity
  • Apply principles of creative thinking to organisational problem solving, releasing static thinking and freeing the team from obvious solutions
  • Agree team approach and rules that open up more creative thinking

Included resources -

  • 30 minutes of video instruction
  • Bonus video on creative journaling technique
  • Easy-to-use templates in editable Microsoft Powerpoint to plan your innovation project and build creative thinking into your organisation's culture

Sample Template Previews

YouLead Founder

Dale Renner

Dale is a strategy and innovation consultant with 17 years Australian and international experience working for leading organisations in a wide range of industries including health, education, energy, wine, financial services, government and the social sector. He advises senior management in social sector and not-for-profit organisations. His passion is to drive more innovation to social problems through empowering social organisations with the latest innovation tools, capabilities and strategies.He is Director of YouLead and Iconic Consulting - with a focus on social sector organisations. Dale is a former Board member of VCOSS and Hagar Australia, and Co-Lead of Unreasonable Lab Australia. He holds degrees in Law and Economics. Contact Instructor: LinkedIn | Email | Twitter | Website

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Set up for Ideation - preparing your team

    • Setup your team and project for ideation

    • Solution Kit Overview: download
  • 2

    2. Innovation Factory - setting up a place for innovation

    • Create an innovation factory inside your organisation to generate new ideas
  • 3

    3. Setting up the team for innovation

    • Helping the team run their innovation project and set up spaces to work
  • 4

    4. Creative thinking

    • Creative thinking - methods to enhance creativity and learn from creative people

    • Bonus: Technique of Journaling

Part of the Innovation program bundle ...

  • $45.00

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  • $10.00

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