To nurture an innovative corporate culture, creating a constructive and flexible mindset is all-important. This course will show you how to assess a team’s innovative ability, experiment with key creative tools and methods, and develop an action plan for your team.
To nurture an innovative corporate culture, creating a constructive and flexible mindset is all-important. This course will show you how to assess a team’s innovative ability, experiment with key creative tools and methods, and develop an action plan for your team.
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Nurture a culture focused on innovation
Conduct an audit of your team or company
Optimise your team’s creative intelligence
Use tools and methods to develop your creative potential
Evaluate innovation based on indicators
Intended audience
Any manager seeking to foster innovation within their team.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of group facilitation and motivation techniques.
Practical details
Hands-on work
Self-diagnosis, simulation and implementation exercises
Teaching methods
Active teaching based on discussions, an ongoing assessment and numerous implementation exercises.
Course schedule
1
Understanding the challenges of innovation
The difference between innovation and creativity.
The expected benefits. Barriers and hindrances to innovation.
Creativity as a new management style.
2
Carrying out an inventory
Conducting an audit of your team or company.
How the most innovative companies operate. Identifying your creative profile.
Hands-on work
Self-diagnosis.
3
Implementing an innovation process
Choose a strategy adapted to your company and your team. Manage obstacles, space and time.
Recognise innovation as a skill by involving human resources.
Systematise the search for ideas.
Optimize your team's creative intelligence.
Strengthen open-mindedness and cohesion.
Hands-on work
Creative confidence-building games.
4
Stimulating your employees' creativity
Methods to bring innovation to life on a daily basis.
Relationships of trust, partnership and creativity.
The art of asking thought-provoking questions.
Group dynamics.
Role-playing
Practising the art of constructive questioning.
5
Developing your creative potential
Tools, methods, advantages and limitations.
Practise divergent thinking. Heuristic divergence. Brainwriting. The six thinking hats.
Virtual consultant technique or role-storming.
Convergence. Building mental maps.
Intuition and recreational breaks.
Reprimands and the virtues of provocation.
Associative methods and metaphorical thinking.
Hands-on work
Application of these tools.
6
Building the innovation approach
Analysing objectives and reformulating the problem.
Coming up with new ideas.
The distinction between true good ideas and false good ideas.
The cycle: generation, protection and recycling of ideas.
Assessment and selection of solutions. Implementation.
Exercise
Drawing up an assessment matrix.
7
Assessing innovation
Qualitative and quantitative indicators.
Indicators for team cohesion.
Indicators for motivation.
Indicators for talent retention.
8
Building an action plan
Familiarisation with the approach.
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Dates and locations
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Remote class
No session at the moment, we invite you to consult the schedule of distance classes.
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- 14h00 
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