INNOVATION TRAINING

In an era of rapid change and disruption, how might we identify, design and test new opportunities for greater educational growth and resilience?

One of North America’s leading wealth and asset management companies

Challenge

To design, develop and facilitate a series of high-impact innovation training sessions that would ‘fit’ within the demanding work schedule of participants.

Additional context

The new ways of thinking and doing and developed throughout the innovation training needed to align with and reinforce the clients own behavioural competency framework.

Our Approach

To help the client meet this opportunity we customized our signature Innovation Bootcamp to equip program participants with critical innovation skills, human-centred design capabilities and creative mindsets that they needed for better problem finding, problem framing and problem solving.

We delivered a milestone-based program using a blend of virtual “in-class” learning, independent assignments that participants could apply within their daily work flow, combined with individual reflections and group share-back presentations.

The curriculum included understanding user and stakeholder needs, translating insights to implications, creating value propositions, experience prototyping, building the business case and storytelling for change

The core eight weeks of the innovation training included the following components

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In-Class Learning

Independent Assignments

Teams take part in a virtual lunch & learn session every Monday, through the use of online collaboration tools.

Participants worked through the applied learning exercises aligned with their regular work activities.

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Self-Reflection

Participants reflected, wrote down, and documented their observations and insights from the self-directed exercises, using a self-reflection template.

Group Check-In & Reading

Teams close out the week with a facilitated share-back session to present their work to their peers and reflect on their learnings from the week. Participants received the reading material for the next week and review in preparation for Monday’s lesson.

24 leaders were equipped with the creative competencies, tools, and experiences to bring new ways of thinking and doing back to their teams and business units.
Each week focused on a specific aspect of the innovation and design thinking process and provided participants with critical skills, methods and frameworks to use in their daily work.