Innovation and Ideation for Groups
- Minimum 4hr session + preparation and follow up
- Up to 20 participants per group
- Online or Offline
unlock your potential with improv
Learn how to talk to (just about) anyone
Is your team struggling to turn individual ideas into collaborative breakthroughs? Is it easy to find a problem, but hard to find a solution? Do you want to harness diverse perspectives to fuel innovation and problem-solving?
Innovation and ideation for groups is an engaging programme that will improve collaboration and innovation, individually, and as a team. Learn practical techniques to foster collective creativity, improve communication, and celebrate diverse perspectives. This workshop will allow your participants to reflect on what makes a team and how they can contribute to a healthy and productive one.
During this programme, your team will work without silos and roles, build trust, and work towards a culture where everyone contributes to meaningful solutions and bystander apathy is a thing of the past. Ideal for businesses aiming to boost productivity and innovation, Innovation and ideation for groups provides immediately actionable insights and techniques that will transform the way your team works.
Is it right for you?
Book this programme if:
A small number of voices dominate conversations
Innovation is being stifled
Your team is not cooperating to build
Programme content
Before the Workshop
Creativity and Culture Questionnaire: Before the workshop, your team will complete an anonymous questionnaire on how creativity is viewed and approached in the team. The results of this are shared during the session.
During the Workshop
1) Presentation: The Myths of Creativity
Creativity isn’t what we often think it is. To start the workshop, you will be presented with ten common myths about collaboration and creativity and asked to reflect on how those myths get in the way.
2) Failure, Pride and Sunk Resources Paradox
Surely celebrating failure is counter-productive? In this hilarious and challenging section, participants examine their attitude to failure. What it means, and how to acknowledge and move on from it, embracing momentum and working from a position of abundance.
3) Big Results through Tiny Offers
Ideas are rarely created alone. Good ones almost never. In this section, you will look at how to create ideas step-by-step without having a clear outcome in mind. You will also be introduced to a core tenant of improvisation: accept and build.
4) The Creatvity Diamond
We all understand that ideas need to be assessed, compared, and, ultimately, sold. In this third section of the workshop, we will look at the shape of a creative process and when and how productive criticism can be introduced. Your team will be guided through a creative process and encouraged to reflect on how the afternoon’s ideas can be applied.
After the Workshop: Next step recommendations and support materials
This workshop is the start of a conversation and an invitation for your team to change how they work. To support this change, we provide a tailored set of recommendations for further training and support materials to bed in the skills learned.
“I was extremely impressed by the way the activities brought everyone together and no one felt outside of their comfort level”
– Amanda Jane Ramirez, KCL
By the end of this programme:
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Your team will have a better understanding of how collaboration can lead to creativity and the environment needed for this to happen
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Your team will better understand their personal and collective challenges in thinking and working together
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