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Leading & Motivating Teams to Innovate

Learn practical methods for fostering a culture of curiosity and open dialogue within your team. This program reinforces just how critical open dialogue is—across business units and with external partners—for successful innovation. Find out what it takes to stimulate this dialogue, and learn key tactics to excite and motivate your team so that innovation becomes the norm in your culture.

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What?

This program contains three courses, five tools, and two research reports.

Why?

You'll be able to:

  • Outline a clear action plan for leading innovation
  • Encourage teams to better solve problems
  • Assign metrics to measure climate effectiveness
  • Create a sustainable reward and recognition plan for employees

Who?

  • Organizational Leaders & High Performers

Included Courses

IN241: Effective Innovation Leadership

Understand how you can demonstrate commitment, communication, and inspiration to your employees in order to drive successful and pervasive innovation.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Leadership, Team-Building

IN243: Encouraging Teams to Better Collaborate and Share

Learn how leading companies foster a climate of collaboration and determine how you can apply these tactics immediately to help fuel innovation and growth.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Brainstorming, Climate, Creativity, Team-Building

IN244: Rewarding and Recognizing Innovation

Generate real results with the right motivators. Learn the four key methods of rewarding employees, and see how other companies have used them successfully.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Format:
eLearning
Tags:
Culture, Employee Programs, Employee Recognition

Included Research & Tools

Advanced Guides

Advanced Guide: How to Be an Effective Innovation Leader

Generally speaking, innovation efforts are only successful when they are led from the very top of an organization. So, what do leaders need to do to make innovation work? Discover how you can be a more effective innovation leader to spur action and generate results with this 24-page tool.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Climate, Leadership, Management, Skill Building
Advanced Guides

Advanced Guide: How to Reward and Recognize Employees for Innovation

Design a robust and methodical rewards and recognition program with this 34-page tool. You'll energize your workforce and create sustainable and organic innovation.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Climate, Culture, Leadership, Management
Case Studies

Case Study: Pixar

How does innovation spark movie magic? Many of Pixar's great artistic achievements were made possible by the company's extraordinary ability to create a climate that fosters innovation.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Culture, Employee Engagement, Ideas
Case Studies

Case Study: Virgin

The Virgin group, comprised of over 200 different companies, has long been in the business of exploring new territory. With varied operations across music, travel, telecom, and more, the company has had to create a culture where innovation pervades every aspect of their business. Take a look inside a conglomerate that embraces chaos in this case study.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Business Model Innovation, Culture, Ideas
Program-Building Tools

Program-Building Tool: Innovation Role Models

What kind of organization do you want to become? How will innovation get you there? To answer these questions, it helps to have your team articulate why they want to change, how they want to change, and who they'd model themselves after. This tool leads your team in a discussion of which role models they aspire to and how these role models are important to the organization.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Leadership, Strategy
Program-Building Tools

Program-Building Tool: Leadership Contract

Get your leaders to visibly demonstrate their commitment to innovation. In a truly innovative organization, senior management actively and genuinely supports innovation efforts. Use this tool to guide a session in which they’ll create a Leadership Contract that will help ignite and sustain your organization's innovation programs.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Leadership, Strategy
Skill-Building Tools

Skill-Building Tool: Share an Idea

Don't wait for perfection. Discover how sharing works-in-progress can help quickly and efficiently generate more robust ideas. This 15-page tool can be used as a warm-up to kick off a larger, more serious discussion. It also works well as an idea-generation tool in which teams quickly collaborate to come up with better ideas.

Audience:
Organizational Leaders, High Performers
Tags:
Brainstorming, Creativity, Ideas, Team-Building

Client Quotes

  • “futurethink is the innovation expert. They fine-tune their training to our clients' needs. I'm constantly looking for new opportunities to engage them in our work.”
    Brian Weberg, Director, National Conference of State Legislatures
  • “We need to look beyond our organization's walls to innovate.”
    Mehmoon Khan, Global Leader, Innovation Process Development, Unilever Unilever
  • “futurethink's proven methodology, research, and tools help ensure we're always ready to meet the evolving public service challenges of tomorrow.”
    Sandy Stosz, Rear Admiral, United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard
  • “Innovation is deliberate, if done well. There is a science and process to it. futurethink has done their homework to provide a wealth of practical knowledge to their customers.”
    Senior Vice President of Innovation, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo
  • “futurethink is always thinking ahead about learning and 'innovate' it before we ask! Their programs have been a huge success with our teams.”
    Director of Learning & Development, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Sonovian Pharmaceuticals
  • “futurethink made my leadership team think in new ways and helped us develop winning business ideas right in the room. My team now embraces innovation rather than fearing it.”
    Mary Fennoglio, Managing Director, Citigroup Corporate Investment Bank Citigroup
  • “futurethink made the topic of innovation, which means different things to different people, real, meaningful, and actionable.”
    Steven Rubinow, Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext NYSE Euronext Logo
  • “futurethink is enabling us to build critical innovation skills and share best practices across our global organization.”
    Jeff Honious, Vice President of Innovation, Reed Elsevier Reed Elsevier
  • “Any innovative company must develop processes for understanding and responding to consumer needs in a very focused way. Otherwise, they're just inventors, they're not necessarily innovators.”
    Tony Tomazic, Director of Consumer Innovations, Humana Humana
  • “If you don't make innovation a strategic part of your business plan and you don't drive that into the culture, I don't think you'll have a strong innovation pipeline.”
    Mark Hausfeld, Innovation Manager, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble
  • “Working with futurethink was a very rewarding experience for our team. They brought a great combination of provocative outside ideas, market perspective and a program design that challenged us to think of our own business in more innovative ways.”
    Jim Daly, Vice President of Human Resources, Standard & Poor's Standard & Poor's
  • “If you don't innovate, be creative and look to the future and the possibilities of what will evolve over time, you will cease to be relevant.”
    Randy Voss, Senior Manager, Global Strategy & Business Development, Whirlpool Whirlpool
  • “futurethink's research and 'how-to' tools have been essential to building our innovation program.”
    Cindy Morgan, Innovation Manager, New England Federal Credit Union New England Federal Credit Union
  • “The futurethink workshop not only provided an incredible jolt of energy to our collective innovation efforts and established the common understanding of innovation concepts, but it was also a wonderful team-building event. I don’t think it could have been organized and conducted any better.”
    Michael Ripa, Manager, FRI Infomatics
  • “The futurethink team did an outstanding job in designing and facilitating an innovation event for our senior leaders, many of who regarded this as the best innovation workshop that they had ever been a part of. I would recommend futurethink to any organization that is looking for clear and actionable pathways to Innovation.”
    Wayne Pethrick, Director, Marketing and Consumer Insights, Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes
  • “futurethink's sessions included excellent examples and energizing exercises that brought innovation to life. They got us to look at our business with new eyes.”
    Joan P. Lawrence-Ross, Chief Learning Officer, AXA