Innovation At Work

Innovation can transform any workplace.

Workplace innovation builds motivation levels and synergises teams. If your exit surveys reveal “boredom” or “lack of opportunity” then this program is ideal for your people.

Plan of action

Innovation is something that every level of an organisation can participate in. This program will show participants a proven methodology to become more innovative at work and how to manage innovative ideas effectively.

  • How to be creative.
  • How to remove barriers to creativity and effective thinking.
  • How to work with creativity and innovation tools.
  • How to remove inhibitions from thinking.
  • How to interpret an innovativeness scale.
  • How to use 6 thinking hats in meetings.
  • How to participate in problem solving and decision making.
  • How to have fun while working.
  • How to innovatively think outside the square.
  • How to develop your right brain activities to gather fresh workplace productivity ideas.
  • How to think holistically and get past symptomatic response urges.
  • How to develop critical thinking skills.

“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds” – Mark Twain

Key learning outcomes

At the conclusion of this program participants will possess the skills to:

  • Diagnose different innovative thinking styles.
  • Be aware of how conditioning impacts our decision making abilities.
  • Reframe tasks.
  • Ensure everyone is aware of the outcomes of their activities.
  • Create employee experiences.
  • Work collaboratively to solve problems.
  • Interpret customer’s needs and expectations.
  • Don different thinking hats.
  • Quieten the mind.
  • Piggy back off heuristics your customers make.
  • Build more seamlessness and accountability into roles.
  • Remove role ambiguity in the workplace.
  • Think on your feet.
  • Remove a blame culture that stifles innovation.
  • Reward innovative decision making.
  • Calibrate and measure using an innovativeness scale.
  • Avoid symptomatic knee jerk responses and think holistically.

Would you like to attend this program?

For maximum effectiveness, this program is best conducted as an in-house program.

Ideal group size: 4 – 12 participants.

Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your business premises. Alternatively, we can provide a training venue at a small additional cost.

Duration: This program can be adapted to meet your requirements.

Cost: Price on request.

Target Audience: Supervisors, Team Leaders and Management.

If you would like more information on this training program, please contact: Melinda Kavanagh – Marketing Manager 03 9805 8000 Email:mkavanagh@preftrain.com