Innovation Workout, The

<ul> <li>PART 1 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 10 Steps to enhance your innovation skills </li> <li>Step 1 &nbsp; Pinpoint your purpose </li> <li>Get your innovation off to the right start by thinking big to understand your problem or unmet need and articulate it in a way that inspires others to get involved. </li> <li>Step 2 &nbsp;&nbsp; Know and understand your customers </li> <li>Learn techniques to understand your customers to enable you to develop innovations that meet their needs. </li> <li>Step 3 &nbsp;&nbsp; Your market today and predicting the trends of tomorrow </li> <li>Get to grips with what is happening in your market today and spot trends to help develop innovation for the future. </li> <li>Step 4 &nbsp;&nbsp; Build your creative capacity </li> <li>Learn how increase your personal capacity for having ideas through expanding your experiences, breaking routines and connecting ideas together. </li> <li>Step 5 &nbsp;&nbsp; Creative superstardom and lots of ideas </li> <li>Have fun practicing different techniques to help you and you colleagues generate lots of ideas. </li> <li>Step 6 Don’t expect anyone else to like your idea </li> <li>If your idea is new, or different you will have to spend time getting others to like your idea. This step provides some practical ways to get others on board. </li> <li>Step 7 &nbsp;&nbsp; Filter and choose the best ideas </li> <li>Techniques to filter and choose the ideas that have the greatest chance of success and way to confidently say ‘no’ to weaker ideas. </li> <li>Step 8 &nbsp;&nbsp; Prototype, fail fast and refine </li> <li>Learn ways to prototype ideas quickly and cheaply with your colleagues, managers and customers and then adapt and refine your ideas. </li> <li>Step 9 &nbsp;&nbsp; Pilot, adapt and invest </li> <li>How to design, deliver and evaluate a pilot for your idea as well as tips on how to secure resource required to deliver your pilot. </li> <li>Step 10 Take your ideas to market </li> <li>How to build on your pilot and develop your idea in the marketplace for real, and build on the business case you developed in the pilot to pitch for investment. </li> <li>PART 2 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 10 innovation skills in action </li> <li>Skill 1 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating in a big organisation </li> <li>Skill 2 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating on your own </li> <li>Skill 3 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating when no one else gets it </li> <li>Skill 4 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating with your team </li> <li>Skill 5 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating with clients and customers </li> <li>Skill 6 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating your managers </li> <li>Skill 7 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating with confidence </li> <li>Skill 8 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovation by imitation </li> <li>Skill 9 &nbsp;&nbsp; Innovating with no budget </li> <li>Skill 10 Innovating when you feel like you are stuck </li> <li>PART 3 &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 10 common innovation challenges </li> <li>Challenge 1 &nbsp; How do I develop my own innovation process or framework? </li> <li>Challenge 2&nbsp; How do I build an innovation network? </li> <li>Challenge 3 How do I make time to innovate? </li> <li>Challenge 4 &nbsp; How do I measure innovation? </li> <li>Challenge 5 &nbsp; How do I motivate others to start to innovate? </li> <li>Challenge 6 &nbsp; How do I create a culture of innovation? </li> <li>Challenge 7 &nbsp; How do I manage failure? </li> <li>Challenge 8 &nbsp; How do I innovate quickly? </li> <li>Challenge 9 &nbsp; How do I approach a niche product? </li> <li>Challenge 10&nbsp;&nbsp; How do I recruit good innovators? </li> <li>Putting it into action (the mentor toolkit) </li> <li>How to work with a mentor to put your new</li> </ul>