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…
Create Your Path
Visit InnovateYourself.com for our program to help you reflect, strategize, and innovate your own professional life!
Innovation Leadership Program
Visit ProgramInnovation.com to help your institution learn and do innovation.
Workshops & Webinars
See some of the leadership, innovation, communication, collaboration, and educational interactive workshops we can do.
1:1 Professional Development Program
This is a unique professional development experience: a hybrid of individual face-to-face coaching with facilitation, and a step-by-step activity-filled online video program. It is a 1:1 blended program that helps you do much more with much less, and it is tailored to what you need to take it to the next level in your career…
The Innovation Learner Daily E-Newspaper
Visit our daily innovation e-newspaper to see the most current expert articles about innovation.
HighSchoolInnovation.com
Visit our new site, High School Innovation, to learn about what makes innovative high schools work!
Use the Repeat Button Wisely in Life and Work
When I listen to music I love the repeat button. I especially love the “repeat 1†button. I love to hear the same song over and over again. It drives most people crazy. After a while, admittedly about 5 times, it even starts to drive me crazy. I want something new. I need something new.…
Important “4Cs” insights from survey of 2,115 managers
The American Management Association (AMA) surveyed 2,115 managers about the most important skills needed in our organizations. It is not the 3Cs but now a different set of 4Cs: Critical thinking/problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity/innovation skills. Why are these 4Cs skills the critical skills? According to the survey of 2,115 managers, 91% rated the pace…
Technology Innovation Literacy
This sixth grader, Thomas Suarez, gave a TED Talk. For me that alone stands out. How many 6th graders do you see doing TED Talks? He develops IPhone apps. His most popular one is called “Bustin Jieber.” He created it because a lot of his classmates disliked Justin Bieber. He knows how to develop ideas…
How to Title your Article or Blog: 3 Simple Ways to Get More Views
We need titles for many things: ideas, concepts, images, tweets, social media and blog posts, articles, reports, and books. In an earlier blog post I shared some insights from my research on bestselling nonfiction books for how to create better titles. I would like to now zero in on smaller ideas or bite-sized pieces of…
Incremental or Breakthrough Innovations: Go +1 or x2?
Would you rather go +1 or x2 in your ideas and innovations? How about life? How about at work? When innovating and doing things better we have choices. Do we want a slight improvement, a +1, an incremental innovation? Or, do we want a x2, a drastic improvement? This is a breakthrough or even disruptive…
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