These programs are designed to assist in the development and training of innovation strategies, idea entry, coaching and evaluator training. Training programs include;

Establishing an Innovation Strategy
Does everyone in your organisation have a different idea of what innovation is? How can we communicate an effective innovation vision? How can people understand and translate this vision into action?

Innovation strategy training will help key stakeholders work through the process of creating an innovation charter. The innovation charter will help your organisation to focus on ideas that align with corporate strategy. A charter will help focus your leadership team on driving successful outcomes and assist them in planning a framework for the creation of an innovation system.

This training program will cover;

• What is innovation?
• How do we form a simple strategy for innovation?
• What is the payback?
• What is an innovation charter?
• Creating an innovation charter
• Improving your innovation culture
• Next steps

Entering Ideas and Concepts
Once the design of the innovation system has been establish, training and coaching staff to enter ideas and engage with the system is important. After-all for the system to be of benefit staff will need to know how to use it!

This training will provide a background into innovation management principals. The entry system will allow staff to contribute to the organisations growth and development by training them on how to enter ideas for selection and development.

Establishing Evaluation Criteria
How do you evaluate all the ideas that have been put forward? How do you prioritise ideas and decide which are more important? In order to gain and retain the trust and involvement from your staff it is important to provide constructive feedback on all ideas, and to be seen to be actioning some of the ideas submitted.

Evaluating and managing idea flow and communications is an essential part of keeping the trust and respect you have gained. If this is handled incorrectly the damage that is generated can be significant. This training will help you to establish effective evaluation criteria for assessing the ideas that are submitted.

This training will cover;

• What is innovation management?
• What is the role of the Evaluator?
• Key issues with evaluation
• How to create good criteria for evaluation
• Streaming evaluation criteria
• Communications, recognition and reward

Coaching for Innovation
What is an innovation coach? How can you encourage ideas and participation in an innovation system? What do people in your organisation need to know about innovation and innovation strategy?

This training will help innovation coaches to better understand people and culture and how to adjust their coaching and mentoring style to get the most out of their teams. It will encourage them to assist and develop ideas with idea submitters by asking the right questions in the right way, breaking down barrier to innovation.

This training will cover;

• The innovation management system
• What is the role of an innovation Coach?
• Dynamics - people and teams / personality styles
• Idea development - tools and techniques
• Giving positive feedback