Innovation in the Workplace
Creativity can do more than just spark the next Big Idea for your organization. It’s also a critical skill for finding unique solutions to problems and new ways to improve on old processes. This series will help you to build your creativity and encourage it in others in productive ways that help your organization’s bottom line.
This series is for anyone interested in learning about innovation in the workplace. This online course contains 6 lessons and should take approximately 7 hours to complete.
Defining Innovation and Determining Your Point of View
This course defines innovative thought and explains strategies for understanding and broadening your point of view and teaches you how to define creativity and innovation, describe the characteristics of left- and right-brain thinking, identify a strategy for successfully accessing the right brain, broaden your view of your consumer, and describe an effective empathy board.
Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation
This course describes ten of the most common enemies of innovation and explains how to avoid them and teaches you how to list and describe ten common enemies of innovation, and discuss and apply strategies for circumventing the enemies of innovation.
Asking Questions
This course provides tips and techniques on asking effective questions and determining the context of the answers you receive and teaches you how to identify the importance of questions to innovation, describe how to ask questions to promote innovation, describe how to spark an idea, distinguish ways to ask effective questions, determine the context of an interview, examine the attitude and preconceptions you bring to interviews, and explain the context of an interview to another person.
Harnessing Energy
This course explains the vital role that energy, not necessarily logic, plays in the innovation process and teaches you how to describe the roles that logic and energy play in the innovation process, explain the Kao-Leonard innovation model, explain how everyday conflicts possess potential energy, describe how ideas gain power by resolving conflicts, explain the difference between the traditional and the new innovation process, explain how intersecting consumer needs establish starting points for the innovation process, and describe how products that successfully resolve emotional conflicts release potential energy.
Creating Ideas
This course provides exercises and techniques that will help you create new ideas and foster creativity and innovation and teaches you how to explain how exercises can help you make the shift to brainstorming ideas, describe the components that make up our personalities, describe how to use emotion-based tools, explain techniques you can use to get ideas flowing, and describe some techniques that will help you access the spiritual component of your personality.
Measuring Success
This course discusses how to effectively assess the energy and potential of ideas and teaches you how to measure an idea's energy based on its relevance and uniqueness, identify the best experts to evaluate an idea for its Zing, and describe effective questions for evaluating the energy of an idea.