Focus on Facilitation Reflection and Storytelling Retreat
Here is a recording of our “mini-virtual retreat” that we did with the Focus on Facilitation Community of Practice. First, here is the welcome video I sent introducing our collaborative whiteboard and some of the key expedition reflection activities participants could start thinking about. Here is the recording of our actual workshop. About half of…
Video of the AI Explorers Image Collection: An Expedition to Apply AI for Learning and Development
The ideas are endless for how you might apply AI for your creative projects or learning and development experiences. I was interested in going beyond just creating single images and wanted to collaborate to build a collection of hundreds of images of different characters on a specific topic…all created by AI. My latest personal interest…
Learning and Development Leader Challenges
At a design thinking workshop, we asked learning and development leaders about important challenges they have that they might use design thinking on during our workshop. They submitted dozens of questions and our AI tool summarized the questions into these 14 themes. Learning and Development Leaders are Interested in Focusing on these Challenges: 1. Creativity…
Catalyze and Sustain Virtuous Cycles in Groups
This is a guest article by Harry Webne-Behrman Harry Webne-Behrman has served as a facilitator, consultant, educator, and mediator for over 40 years. Along with his wife, Lisa Webne-Behrman, he served as Senior Partner of Collaborative Initiative, Inc., a private consulting and mediation firm based in Madison, Wisconsin from 1991-2017, before moving to Ottawa, Canada,…
Leadership Development Retreat for Educators
A Virtual Mini Retreat for Leadership Educators We had a wonderful gathering of about 30 leadership development professionals for a mini-retreat. We may do another one in the coming month. Here’s the intro, opening reflections, and some storytelling from Darin at our first retreat. Event Information Leadership Educator Virtual Mini-Retreat: Reflecting On The Year and…
Using Everyday or Special Objects to Facilitate More Creative and Innovative Workshops
Create your own innovative workshop activities with everyday objects. Facilitators of unique workshops or programs understand how difficult it can be to think of and run new engaging and enlightening activities for participants! While there are many known examples out there, how do you go about creating your own unique activities to amplify your program?…
Growth or Fixed Mindset Infographic
One of my favorite topics to teach others in our workshops is that of mindset. Specifically, we engage people in the mindset for innovation and even more specifically…the mindsets for design thinking. The most popular mindset research was done by Carol Dweck of Stanford. It is excellent…and focuses on a fixed vs. growth mindset. This…
5 Innovation Books to Read this Year
Innovate to grow with these innovation book tips. Does your organization have a comprehensive innovation strategy or plan for the year? Are you interested in learning more about how to develop an innovative mindset and gain practical skills on developing creative new ideas for implementation? Here are five books on innovation to read that will…
Design Thinking Innovation Certificate Programs
Learn more about our group and individual certificate programs for innovators, design thinkers, trainers, and facilitators Are you interested in receiving an innovation certification online? Innovation Learning offers two unique programs that can help you become certified to improve practices at your organization. Keep reading to learn more about these programs and why an innovation…
10 Practices for Organization Innovation
Creating a culture of innovation? What are other organizational leaders doing to foster a culture of innovation within their organization and create and develop real innovations of impact? This article shares 10 of the most basic trends to apply for organization innovation. In our research interviewing over 100 innovation leaders within large organizations, We found themes of organizational…
Innovation Books
Best Innovation Books Based on our “creating a culture of innovation” project conducting interviews with over 100 innovation leaders at a variety of large organizations, the following books on this list were recommended frequently as the top innovation books that are helpful for innovating, being innovative, and specifically, practicing innovation or design thinking in an…
Organizational Innovation
Organizational Innovation This article shares insights about what organizational innovation is, a process for approaching it, and examples for how to learn and develop your skill to innovate within organizations. If you would like a deeper dive into innovation for organizations see our online innovation courses and innovation workshops. I’ve interviewed over 100 “innovation leaders creating a culture…
Innovation Training
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Darin Eich, Ph.D.
Darin Eich, Ph.D. is the author of Innovation Step-by-Step: How to Create & Develop Ideas for your Challenge & Root Down & Branch Out: Best Practices for Leadership Development Programs. He is a global design thinking creativity speaker & the founder of InnovationTraining.org. Darin designs innovation and leadership programs that have been used by over 1 million…
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