Innovation in the Workplace Training

Summary:

Creativity can do more than just spark the next Big Idea for your organization. It

This Innovation in the Workplace online training series provides over 7 hours of self-paced courseware. This web-based training provides 6 months of unlimited access to all of the following lessons:

1 . Asking Questions
2 . Creating Ideas
3 . Defining Innovation and Determining Your Point of View
4 . Harnessing Energy
5 . Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation
6 . Measuring Success

Lesson Detail:

Asking Questions
This course provides tips and techniques on asking effective questions and determining the context of the answers you receive.

• Why should I ask questions?
• Look around and listen
• Exploring the context

Creating Ideas
This course provides exercises and techniques that will help you create new ideas and foster creativity and innovation.

• Where to start
• Emotion-based tools
• Body-based and spirit-based tools

Defining Innovation and Determining Your Point of View
This course defines innovative thought and explains strategies for understanding and broadening your point of view.

• What is innovation?
• Left brain, right brain
• Thinking like your customers

Harnessing Energy
This course explains the vital role that energy, not necessarily logic, plays in the innovation process.

• Logic vs energy
• Releasing energy
• Changing the innovation process
• Acknowledging the conflict

Identifying the Enemies of Ideas and Innovation
This course describes ten of the most common enemies of innovation and explains how to avoid them.

• What is your point of view?
• Where do you get answers?
• What is there to be afraid of?
• Who has the responsibility for innovation?
• How important is your time?

Measuring Success
This course discusses how to effectively assess the energy and potential of ideas.

• Map the response
• Ask the experts

Certification:
Innovation in the Workplace

Audience:
This series is for anyone interested in learning about innovation in the workplace.

Features:

• Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
• Flash scenarios use real world situations to illustrate course concepts.
• Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
• Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
• MindNotes provide printable quick-reference sheets and other files to be used as learners apply their skills on the job.
• Decision Point activities allow learners to work toward an outcome in an interactive environment.
• Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
• A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
• Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
• Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
• Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
• A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
• A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
• Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.

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What You Get:

You will receive Unlimited Access to all of the Innovation in the Workplace training tutorials listed above. Your online training courses will be available from anywhere you have internet access.This e-learning series includes all of the online training tutorials listed and is provided in an interactive, self-paced format. Retake any or all of our computer training as often as you want. Our online tutorials allow you to learn anywhere, anytime from any computer with internet access. All courses allow for 6 months of unlimited access (1 user), include a variety of features and qualify for Continuing Education Unit credit.

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