Fostering an Innovation Culture
It takes more than just a vision to sustain real innovation
Why do businesses still struggle to achieve the practices and benefits of innovation? Because despite the focus we put on it, innovation is largely driven by organisational thinking and culture, or an understanding of how you ‘do’ innovation across all levels of the organisation. For leaders, it can be hard to cut through the noise and figure out what needs to happen to make meaningful progress part of day-to-day operations.
In this two-day short course we’ll unpack the frameworks and principles of practical innovation, the tools to uncover opportunities, and the steps you can take as a leader to nurture innovation at work.
Location
Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins St, Melbourne
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Who should attend
Managers and leaders who are responsible for tackling strategic challenges and driving growth, and those who want to explore the mindsets, frameworks and practical steps you can take to enable innovation behaviours to flourish in your team or organisation.
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Through this short course you’ll develop the critical skills to:
- understand what innovation means in modern business
- learn about the factors that contribute to an innovation culture
- assess opportunities in your own business, and what gets in the way.
These skills will accelerate your ability to:
- explore the frameworks that contribute to effective innovation
- learn how to uncover innovation opportunities for your customers and your business
- reflect on the role you can play as a leader in fostering innovative behaviours.
This program brings together a fascinating mix of theory, reflection and practical application. You'll be challenged to think deeply and differently about innovation in your workplace – and learn to apply this mindset to your real workplace situations.
Topics we’ll cover include:
- Exploring what an ‘innovation culture’ is – gaining a greater understanding of the context your organisation operates within, and where opportunities for innovation lie within your business.
- The frameworks for innovation – analysing how your teams and people could use frameworks such as human-centred design to better understand the customer.
- Uncovering opportunities to innovate – exploring how you can apply business model innovation, identify opportunities and be aware of trends that might negatively impact your business.
Unpacking the skills, structures and systems to hardwire a leading innovation culture – knowing, in tangible, practical terms, what you need to do as a leader to put all of these components of innovation culture into practice. Exploring how existing structures can stifle innovation, and how you can apply business model innovation to rethink how you exchange value with customers.
How you'll learn
Over two days, you’ll engage in a mix of content delivery, guided discussions, hands-on activities, peer learning and mentoring, and reflection. A personal project gives you a chance to put your new skills and knowledge to the test.
Learning journey
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Program outline |
Day 1 LEARN, PREPARE, AND DRAFT |
Day 2 DO, REFLECT AND REPORT |
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Program induction Welcome and prepare for the program. |
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Pre-reading Learn when best suits you, with online resources, tools and activities to support you. |
2 hours |
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Live experience session Facilitator-led in-person session which blends the best of theory and practice. |
1 day |
1 day |
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Group activity Practical group activities to put theory into practice. |
1.5 hrs (In-session) |
1.5 hrs (In-session) |
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Workplace challenge / Project work Self-led activities to address a workplace challenge or personal project by applying new knowledge and skills. |
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Guided reflection Self-led reflection work to embed learning and the application of theories in your own workplace context. |
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Marque Kabbaz
Program Lead
Marque has two decades of experience as a creative strategy and business design lead, building both brands and businesses for some of Australia's largest organisations. He's committed to redefining the way that creativity and strategy are valued as a core business processes.
He's worked with people and businesses across all sectors, from Financial Services to FMCG, CPG, Retail, Mining, Pharma, Automotive, Energy, and Government. And while he is proficient in design thinking, agile methodologies, behavioural economics, business design, and strategy, he's more interested in uncovering the core challenge and designing the right strategy to solve for it.
He never accepts the easy way if the hard way gives better results. He's insatiably curious, and a bit of a tech geek, has a degree in Behavioural Psychology, and is relentlessly people-focused.
He has a satirical sense of humour and loves a good single-malt whiskey.