Featured Workshop Topics

The topics below can be covered quickly in a half-day overview, or in-depth through an intensive two week program. Topics can be mixed and matched to meet your organization’s needs. And, whether you choose a general introduction, or an intensive deep dive, the workshop will be energizing, challenging, active, and fun.

Leading Innovation

How do you lead innovation?

Leading a group through an innovation project is a challenging process that is much different than other types of work. The skills that let you succeed and rise in ta company may not serve you well when you’re leading innovation, and can even lead you to make exactly the wrong decisions.

What makes this more complex is that there is no single approach to innovation. Sometimes you need to sail fo rblue oceans, while other times require your to adopt disruptive new technology. Sometimes all that’s needed is an incremental improvement to a current product line, but often you need to uncover latent needs through an intensive field research effort.

This workship helps you understand the different types of innovation, when to use each, and how to lead a team through each. It will teach you a proven and dependable set of innovation techniques and give you a roadmap for putting them together. Through lectures, case studies, hands-on activities, and a smartphone-based simulation, you’ll learn a set of tried-and-true methods for leading innovation.

This program is designed for team leaders and product managers, and also for the mid-level and senior managers who have to supervise them.

This interactive program will give participants:

  • A set of tried-and-true tools and techniques for leading innovation
  • A structured framework for applying those tools and techniques
  • Recommendations for changes in roles, processes, structure, and metrics to enable successful innovation