Services
Facilitation
As a master facilitator, I keep the process moving to get the results you need.
Innovation Training
Training customized to your needs, from skills training to advanced train-the-trainer workshops.
Culture Shift
Programs built beyond individual teams to improve innovation agility, communications, and collaboration.
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”– Winston Churchill
Solve complex problems and accelerate innovation with a Master Facilitator
Facilitated innovation sessions allow our clients to comfortably and effortlessly enter new creative landscapes. Guided into new creative territory, participants will swiftly clarify today’s complex issues and formulate new solutions to challenging impediments, when traditional thinking just won’t get you there.
We design unique, customized meeting sessions (one day to one week) to address your organization’s specific current need. Our facilitated sessions can be designed to target solutions ranging from innovation to change management, process design to marketing, customer experience to Board or senior management collaboration, and from strategic planning to product development and launch.
We design and facilitate sessions for:
- New product/service development
- Strategic planning
- Vision and Mission identification and articulation
- Organizational challenges and problem solving
- Virtual teams
- Re-invigorating organizations
Build creative agility and breakthrough thinking in your teams
Mindset | Toolset | Skillset
Creative thinking and problem solving are two fundamental skills upon which innovative teams are built. These are skills that can be learned and developed.
We provide both onsite creativity training and public workshops on creativity and innovation.
These workshops:
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Provide a comprehensive set of tools, techniques and checklists for exceptional solutions and breakthrough ideas
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Focus directly on your business opportunities, such as product and process innovation, uncovering market opportunities, succeeding on lean budgets and capturing market share
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Immerse your organization in the language and practices of innovation so that workshop participants can apply the creative process, tools and techniques in future projects
Experiential Workshops
We design and deliver highly experiential workshops for groups of 15-50 people for 1/2 to 5 days, all within the theme of creativity, innovation and leading change.
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Choose from a diverse choice of proven creativity and innovation workshops tailored for your team
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Learn and apply powerful tools and techniques to enhance personal and professional creative thinking, innovation and problem-solving effectiveness
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Access an unparalleled network of international speakers, facilitators, and trainers on the leading edge of innovation theory and practice
“It’s much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.” – Alex Osborn
- Creative Problem Solving Bootcamp
- Design Thinking
- FourSight Thinking
- Emotional Intelligence
- Facilitator Bootcamp
- Insights for Innovation
- Leading Through Rhythm
- Lego Serious Play
- IMPROVation
- Leading for Creativity
- Polarity Management
- Shower Thinking: The Art Incubation
We are certified practitioners in a number of collaboration methods – Creative Problem Solving, Design Thinking, Lego Serious Play®, Polarity Thinking®, Stormz®, and ThinkX Productive Thinking.
“Stress is caused by a perceived lack of options. The ability to think creatively gives you options.” – Megan Mitchell
Types of Assessments
We are certified practitioners in a number of personality style instruments:
As teams expand their creative muscles in a safe environment, collaboration naturally follows
In addition to developing breakthrough solutions to your current need, session participants experience a unique creative process as a team as we lead them through our facilitated innovations sessions. The work of analyzing, designing, developing, and executing together helps transform formerly loose coalitions of individuals into powerful teams of colleagues who can repeat their innovation successes over and over again on future initiatives.
Understanding and Embracing Style Diversity
You are probably surrounded by many creative minds in your workplace. So how come the magic isn’t flowing and why isn’t breathtaking creativity occurring as a matter of course?
It can simply be a matter of identifying the right people for the right assignment – team dynamics. Our ability to assess the individual strengths and different creative styles of your people will allow you to form highly collaborative and effective teams.
Benefits of exploring style diversity:
- Understand how styles impact team performance
- Help teams and individuals to overcome interpersonal hurdles that can result from style differences
- Help teams and individuals realize their full potential and make the best use of your human resources investment
- Understand self, understand others, ease and improve collaboration and communication