Innovation coaching

Q: What is innovation coaching?

Innovation coaching is personal support for innovation projects in companies. Experienced innovation experts accompany each specialist, manager or team in the company. Content is flexibly dependent on specific issues and challenges in the innovation and corporate context.

Q: How long does innovation coaching take?

Innovation coaching takes between four and twelve weeks. A half-day kick-off appointment is followed by individual appointments at weekly or fortnightly intervals. Innovation coaching can be extended beyond this if required.

Q: Who is innovation coaching aimed at?

Innovation coaching is aimed at specialists, managers or teams in the company who want to or should drive innovation. These are usually people from product development, product management, business development, innovation management or management.

Q: What is the result of innovation coaching?

The result of innovation coaching is a clear roadmap for the next steps in innovation. Self-confidence and self-assurance to do the right thing and arguments to be able to explain and defend the procedure if necessary.

Q: What is the added value of innovation coaching?

The added value of innovation coaching is to strengthen the participants in their actions and feelings so that they can act faster and better towards successful innovation without stress. This increases the company’s innovative success. All of this can happen without an external management consultancy appearing in the organization. The glory of success remains solely with the team and the coachees.

Questions, answers and support in specific cases. Innovation coaching helps anyone who is looking for flexible orientation, sparring and individual support in the innovation process rather than major support.

What is

Innovation coaching for individual support for innovation success

Compact initial coaching to take stock, then regular digital or face-to-face appointments to guide progress.

Whether you want to develop an innovation strategy, plan an ideation challenge or develop the next innovation success on the market. There are often phases of disorientation and a desire for exchange. Just listen to what has worked elsewhere. Reflect your own ideas. Get helpful tips for faster success. Innovation coaching is suitable for this.

Most common use cases for innovation coaching

Lack of clarity and structure for the right approach to innovation projects
Missing or weak ideas and lack of implementation of ideas
Difficult communication and convincing customers and managers
Challenges in team leadership, conflict management and project management
Lack of initiative in the team and difficult to act in times of great uncertainty

Service details:

Innovation coaching

is ideal for:

Managers with an interest in sparring and exchange
Young teams with little experience in innovation
Ambitious innovators with a small budget
Companies that do not want to see consultants in the foreground (white label)

Advantages at a glance

All	Answers to your questions
10	Tips, tricks & tools you didn’t know yet

3	Tangible improvements in innovation management
0	Visibility of an external management consultancy

Procedure

HOW DOES THE COACHING WORK?

4-hour coaching kick-off with clarification of needs, stocktaking, understanding the context and initial clarification.
12 coaching hours divided into 3 to 8 appointments.
Current reflection on the situation and challenges in each case.
Inputs and discussion based on hundreds of industrial projects from other companies.
Concrete tasks and agreed objectives for the next appointments.
Addition of further hours and services as required.

How we work

HOW DO YOU WORK IN COACHING?

At any time:

Clear goals for coachee and company
Flexible prioritization of current topics
Concrete topic processing (theory & philosophy as required)
Involvement of further experts where necessary
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Coaching at eye level, strengthening entrepreneurial action and helping people to help themselves for directly implementable improvements.

In the end, they have

AT THE END OF THE COACHING YOU HAVE:

Clarity on how you can make innovation a success.

Self-confidence to do the right thing.

Arguments to convince managers and colleagues.

Sovereignty in the implementation of innovation projects.

Voices of satisfied customers

An absolute recommendation! [...] Mr. Stöckert has a lot of experience and knowledge, which helped us a lot in our process!

Cihan Kamisli
Technical Market Analyst, Technoform

We can highly recommend the support of TOM SPIKE [...]. This enabled us to obtain the support of all key decision-makers, including the CCO and CFO, for our innovation project.

Vera Jakobsen
VP Digital, Munich Airport

Competent advice that is very responsive to our needs, provides excellent moderation for our teamwork and offers us a genuine new perspective when we have questions. We are very satisfied.

Anne Kahnt
Innovation Lead, IHK Berlin

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