Innovation Skills

Innovation in business is the ability to develop and implement something new, unique, or improved that creates distinctive value for the organization. It includes incrementally or boldly making changes to or improving existing products, processes, services, or solutions. Consistent innovation is necessary for an organization to reach its full potential and prosper, yet many organizations lack this critical skill. The good news is that everyone in the organization can develop the capacity to be an innovative force. The Innovation Skills workshop from CMOE is hands-on working session designed to help individual contributors and leaders engage in innovative thinking and use their talents and experience to influence the organization in a profound way. The program helps participants develop the skills they need to:

Innovate faster and more effectively.
Constantly look for new ideas and creative solutions.
Keep an open mind and challenge the status quo.
Propose and communicate innovative ideas.
Position, promote, and generate buy-in for innovative ideas and proposals.
Contribute to a culture of experimentation, creativity, and innovation.
Support innovative ideas introduced by others.

The Innovation Skills learning experience is designed to help your people become working practitioners who return to work with a renewed commitment and have already begun working on their own innovation opportunity in their own area of work.

Objective & Outcomes

As a result of the Innovation Skills workshop, participants will be able to

Prepare their minds to think creatively, ideate, and innovate.
Explore and direct the flow of new ideas in productive directions.
Evaluate situations and generate innovative solutions to solve business challenges and issues and take advantage of opportunities.
Overcome barriers and obstacles to innovation.
Confidently communicate innovative solutions.
Be the driving force behind and create a unifying vision for innovation efforts
Convert incremental, semi-radical, or breakthrough ideas into action.
Strengthen their natural innovation abilities and better manage their opportunities for improvement.
Identify resources to advance breakthrough ideas and create a culture of innovation throughout the organization.

Our Approach

The Innovation Skills program is available in different formats, giving our clients the flexibility to choose the option that works best for them:

Instructor-led, face-to-face workshop
Instructor-led, virtual workshop
Digital, asynchronous learning experience

The Innovation Skills program has a modularized design that can be targeted and adjusted to fit the unique innovation needs of your audience.

CMOE offers Train-the-Trainer services for clients who prefer an internal facilitator deliver the Innovation Skills program within their organization. The program can also be built into an internal curriculum or employee development series.

“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

~ Anonymous

“Innovation is the vital spark of all man-made change, improvement, and progress.”

~ Theodore Levitt, Harvard Business School Professor

Delivery Options

In order to meet the specific needs of each client we partner with and make the most of the learning and development investment, CMOE offers programs in the following formats and lengths:

Instructor-led training (delivered onsite by a CMOE subject matter expert/facilitator)

Digital learning program (self-paced or live)

Blended and layered solution (combining instructor-led training and digital learning)

Train the Trainer Services (certifying internal trainers in CMOE's world-class programs)

Curriculum integration (deliver the topic in conjunction with another topic or event or build it into a development curriculum)

4-16 hours (8 hours preferred) for Instructor-led Variable for Digital Learning

Contact a CMOE Client Services Specialist to discuss a targeted solution that is right for your organization.

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Communication Skills for Leaders

Conflict and Collaboration

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