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Innovation in the Workplace Series

Total Items: 6 Total Time: 7.00 hour(s)  

Summary:

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 training will help you to build your creativity and encourage it in others in productive ways that help your organization’s bottom line.

Learning segment 1: Defining Innovation and Determining Your Point of View    

Summary:

This Learning segment defines innovative thought and explains strategies for understanding and broadening your point of view.  

Objectives:

• 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
• Describe an effective empathy board  

Topics:

• What is innovation?
• Left brain, right brain
• Thinking like your customers

Learning segment 2: Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation  

Summary:

This Learning segment describes ten of the most common enemies of innovation and explains how to avoid them.  

Objectives:

• List and describe ten common enemies of innovation
• Discuss and apply strategies for circumventing the enemies of innovation  

Topics:

• What is your point of view?
• Where do you get answers?
• What is there to be afraid of?
• Who has the responsibility for innovation?
• How important is your time?  

Learning segment 3: Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation    

Summary:

This Learning segment describes ten of the most common enemies of innovation and explains how to avoid them.  

Objectives:

• List and describe ten common enemies of innovation
• Discuss and apply strategies for circumventing the enemies of innovation  

Topics:

• What is your point of view?
• Where do you get answers?
• What is there to be afraid of?
• Who has the responsibility for innovation?
• How important is your time?

Features:

• Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
• Flash scenarios use real world situations to illustrate course concepts.
• Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
• Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
• MindNotes provide printable quick-reference sheets and other files to be used as learners apply their skills on the job.
• Decision Point activities allow learners to work toward an outcome in an interactive environment.
• Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary.
• In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
• Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.  

Technical Requirements:

P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.