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Everyday Innovation
Unlock value through a practical approach to generating new ideas
This course helps you understand what innovation really means in the workplace and how its benefits can be harnessed to improve services, outcomes and ways of working.
2 Days
Overview
Innovation is a way of thinking supported by learnable skills that leaders can apply every day to make progress. This program helps you understand what innovation really means in your workplace and how it can be used to improve services, outcomes and ways of working.
Drawing on real examples, you will identify a current challenge from your organisation and apply a simple, repeatable innovation process to surface new possibilities as you work toward a solution.
Who should attend?
Leaders and managers who want to make innovation part of everyday work, bring forward fresh ideas and connect innovation efforts to meaningful outcomes for their organisation and stakeholders.
Content
- What innovation is and isn’t: Clarify the meaning of innovation, dispel common myths and build a shared language for practical improvement
- Types of innovation: Explore service, process, behavioural and system-level innovation and identify where opportunities exist in your context
- Leadership behaviours for innovation: Learn everyday behaviours that encourage curiosity, learning and progress, and how to model them consistently
- Psychological safety for innovation: Understand how to create a climate where people share ideas, test assumptions and speak up about risks
- A basic innovation process: Work with a simple, repeatable framework to define problems, generate options, test quickly and learn
- Identifying and responding to barriers: Surface and respond to likely constraints such as regulation, approvals, resources and scrutiny
- Collaborating across teams: Use cross-functional tools to broaden perspectives, improve solutions and build buy-in
- Planning for innovation: Create a practical plan to apply the process to a current challenge and sustain innovation in day-to-day work.
Learning outcomes
You will learn to:
- Understand what innovation is and what it is not in an organisational context
- Explore types of innovation including service, process, behavioural innovation
- Practise leadership behaviours that encourage experimentation, collaboration and learning
- Build psychological safety to invite and develop innovative ideas from your team
- Apply frameworks for intelligent risk-taking and learning from setbacks
- Recognise common barriers and determine practical responses to constraints
- Collaborate across departments and stakeholder groups to generate practical ideas
- Apply a structured, learnable innovation process to a real workplace challenge.
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