Igniting Innovation, A Clockwise™ Approach

A Two-Day Seminar on Innovative Thinking and Leadership

You are a born innovator. You already have an innate ability and desire to explore and experiment. Yet, most of us have been conditioned to suppress those skills rather than cultivate them. They are arguably our greatest untapped business resource, both personally and collectively. The ability to be innovative in the way we think and work is rapidly becoming a crucial business asset. It’s critical to our future as individuals and as organizations.

This two-day intensive is designed to help you rediscover those abilities and explore ways to leverage them, boosting your imagination, your creativity, and your problem solving skills—in a practical business environment. You’ll also gain insights into how to enhance those same abilities among your colleagues and employees and on your team.

Innovation is no longer some nice enhancement to your business strategy; it’s a critical component, one that not only drives new and creative outcomes, but enhances flexibility and the capability to handle unforeseen challenges. This interactive workshop will give you fresh insights and tools to become more innovative in the way you think and behave personally, and in the way you lead and collaborate with others.

Day 1: Personal Innovation

The first day introduces Clockwise™ Thinking, the patterns of thought and action that define innovation. This unique and powerful approach draws from scientific method and the life sciences, as well as complexity theory and primary research. Through exercises and discussion, these patterns will be linked to your concrete business challenges.

Participants will:

1) Actively investigate ways of thinking and behaving that promote innovation and personal effectiveness.
2) Explore innovation as a personal discipline, one that isn’t just about new products and services but about being more efficient and adaptable and creative in all aspects of our work.
3) Distinguish patterns of thought and behavior that lead to innovation, from those that are counterproductive.
4) Acquire powerful new problem solving techniques.
5) Gain tools and insights that drive breakthrough results.

Day 2: Innovative Leadership

The second day focuses on innovative leadership and how to foster a healthy innovation climate within your team and organization. Building on what was covered the first day, you will learn what steps you can take to foster everyone’s best innovation efforts. We will also explore a range of business applications that include idea evaluation strategies, decision-making, fostering productive change and achieving breakthroughs.

Participants will:

11) Learn specific strategies and techniques of personal influence to promote innovation and change without resorting to formal authority.
2) Learn to recognize fundamental patterns of organizational behavior and see how those patterns promote or undermine innovation.
3) Discover fresh insights into how our actions and behaviors contribute to or undermine a climate of innovation.
4) Discover new ways to approach business challenges and generate innovative solutions.

Thinking Clockwise

A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader

By Dennis Stauffer

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