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Innovation coaching

The interaction of many individual factors is decisive for innovation success. A detailed recipe for success is the first step. After that it's time to: Start, stumble, carry on, reflect. Training courses and workshops help you get started and get going. Innovation coaching helps with reflection, but also for a new entry into the topic of innovation.

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Why innovation coaching?

Innovation takes time. Time that saps the participants’ chances of success, motivation and stamina. Innovation is often delayed in day-to-day business. In the end, nobody knows whether the innovation project makes any sense at all. A compact innovation workshop works wonders here. With the right participants, focused preparation and determined moderation, you can achieve in a few days what would otherwise take months.

What is innovation coaching?

If you want to create innovation, you need support with specific problems from time to time. This is where the innovation coach helps. We define the term “coaching” broadly and also include mentoring, for example. The person who implements the innovation is coached, but also the person who drives and leads innovation, i.e. innovation managers, product managers, development managers or managing directors. In addition to this individual coaching, team coaching is also established and supports the innovation team and the project manager.

Typical use cases for innovation coaching

  • Lack of clarity on the right approach for innovation projects
  • Brainstorming
  • Lack of implementation of existing ideas
  • Lack of initiative in the team
  • Structure in the development of complex technologies
  • Project management
  • Difficulties in communicating and convincing customers and managers
  • Team leadership and conflict management
  • Acting in great uncertainty.

The benefits of innovation coaching

Many companies are faced with the challenge of securing the future while adapting to new market conditions and meeting changing customer needs. Innovations that are successful on the market are the most important tool here. However, successfully launching completely new products or business models on the market is not yet part of day-to-day business for many companies. There are no established routines.

Innovation coaching accompanies you on this journey through rough terrain. Numerous companies have already gone through this process. Some more, some less successful. Do you need idea management? How do you put together a successful innovation team? Should financial incentives be provided? How much time and how much freedom makes sense in an innovation project? Which techniques, methods and principles are suitable in the specific case? Innovation coaching will show you what to look out for, what you should definitely do and what you can safely do without.

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How innovation coaching works

90 minutes of innovation coaching every two weeks is a good framework. The project continues in parallel and benefits directly from new findings. A half-day preliminary discussion can be understood as a basis, or can already represent a small, complete coaching module in itself. Are you willing to learn in order to achieve your goals?

Do you have a specific challenge (innovation) and see that you are not making much progress?
Arrange a 45-minute tasting with money-back guarantee directly by calling 030 – 60 98 49 02 87 or using our contact form.

Ideally, each innovation coaching session takes place in person, but can also be conducted by telephone as a trial.

The entire innovation workshop process is divided into four phases:

1

WARM-UP - CONNECTING INSTEAD OF RUSHING

In this phase, it is important to build mutual trust between the company management and the consulting team.

2

PILOT - GROW INTO IT INSTEAD OF PUTTING IT ON

Every company is different. And not every recipe for success can be transferred everywhere without further ado. An innovation pilot project helps to work out the company's unique characteristics in terms of innovation capability and at the same time to create the first presentable, inspiring innovation successes.

3

ANCHOR - ESTABLISHING INSTEAD OF ROLLING OUT

Innovation has to happen all by itself. Working on the innovation system and the nine fields of action makes it possible to achieve this goal. to achieve innovative capability. The focus of this phase is on enabling the organization and its employees to make regular, ever larger and more successful innovations.

4

ACCELERATE - STRENGTHEN INSTEAD OF SILTING UP

Innovations accompanied by innovation consulting are only half the battle. They are comparable to driving lessons. Sure: you get from A to B. But sooner or later, friends and fans should be in the car, not the driving instructor. And the car must also be a different one! This is done by developing moderators and innovators within the company. Specific training, selective coaching and working together on the big chunks. Because the unclouded view from the outside is a rare plant of irreplaceable value. No one has yet succeeded in breeding them within a company.

Our next events

16Apr8:309:00Live webinar: Customer interviews20 minutes for inspiring product innovations through customer interviews

17Sep(Sep 17)9:0020(Sep 20)15:00Master Class: Technology innovationCreating uncompromising solutions, world firsts and patents: Patent-ready ideas, complex problem solving and ingeniously simple development of the next generation of technology.

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Nina Defounga

030 – 89 64 72 09

n.defounga@tomspike.com