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.

Book this programme if:

  • Your team is not cooperating to build
  • A small number of voices dominate conversations
  • Innovation is being stifled 

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) 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 the 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) Building big things 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 Creativity Diamond: how to say ‘yes and’ and when to say ‘no’
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: 5) 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.

By the end of this programme:

#1

Your team will have a better understanding of how collaboration can lead to creativity and the environment needed for this to happen

#2

Your team will better understand their personal and collective challenges in thinking and working together
  • "A warm and yet challenging experience with a creative, generous, eclectic group of humans."
    Amanda, GM&Co
  • "The time of the session was just right, the exercises were interesting and gave you the opportunity to self reflect but also interact with others and see other perspectives and ways of thinking."
    Associate Director, GSK
  • "Definitely do it! It far exceeded all our expectation, we learnt about collaboration, letting go, supporting and working together whilst laughing all the way through. You don't get that on other training events."
    Sarah Watson, Head of Innovation, NLCF
  • "Gaining an understanding of how my strengths and areas of limitation manifest in my role; exploring team work in depth and drawing upon improvisation skills to help move work and people forward."
    Emerging Leaders, Kings College
  • "Totally different than anything I've ever done before. The facilitators were great, putting everyone at ease, clearly explaining the exercises and allowing time for reflection on how you could use what you discovered back in the workplace."
    Communications Senior Manager, GSK

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Practical details

Timings

Minimum 4hr session + preparation and follow up

Team size

Up to 20 participants per group

Where

Online/Offline