Fearless Innovation™ Training Program
Harness the power of innovation, no matter your role
Innovation is critical to success, yet most organizations struggle to achieve high levels of innovation and change. Companies talk about innovation or pursue it through relatively small, specialized teams. Yet the most progress is achieved when every employee becomes more innovative—unleashing the benefits of incremental improvements.
Blanchard’s Fearless Innovation™ explores the idea that each individual—armed with the principles of innovation—could be a catalyst for positive change. It teaches an innovation mindset and skill set that empowers everyone to be innovators.
Adopt a powerfully simple model to unlock innovation
There has never been more pressure on organizations to evolve. Yet, less than 20% of our research respondents can experiment without being penalized for mistakes. Further, most innovation frameworks focus on executives and product designers. There’s very little support to help most of us become more innovative in our daily work lives.
Fearless Innovation provides an easy-to-understand model that immediately empowers everyone in your organization to begin innovating. It starts with teaching the three mindsets needed to innovate:
- Grace: The courage to accept imperfection
- Curiosity: The courage to wonder and wander
- Proactivity: The courage to act and disrupt
The program then teaches a four-step process to identify meaningful challenges that innovation can improve, generate ideas, experiment with an idea to test its merit, and launch it into the workplace.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Conversational Capacity in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The Fearless innovation in-person experience is a highly engaging, full-day* session designed to help participants adopt an innovative mindset, build creative confidence, and collaborate effectively to generate and test ideas that drive organizational progress.
This 8-hour course includes videos, group discussions, and breakout sessions. The design can also be extended beyond one day for teams that want additional time to work through real-world innovation challenges.
Course Flow
Prework: LAUNCH — Engaging assignments that introduce key innovation concepts and mindsets.
Morning: LEARN — Interactive activities explore the principles of fearless innovation and help participants identify challenges and opportunities within their roles.
Afternoon: PRACTICE — Practical exercises to generate, test, and refine ideas using proven innovation tools. Includes action planning to overcome barriers, foster a culture of experimentation, and commit to next steps.
Post: APPLY — Follow-up micro-activities, videos, and tools that reinforce key learnings and support continued innovation in daily work.
*This full-day in-person design includes two 10-minute breaks and 45 minutes for lunch.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
Fearless Innovation is a virtual, instructor-led course that unfolds over five one-hour sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners a highly engaging experience that includes instruction, responses, reflection, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills in a safe setting. The program also allows learners to share stories and best practices as they work through a real-life innovation project.
PREWORK/LAUNCH: Welcome to Fearless Innovation™. Discover a mindset and four-step process that will help you envision, try out, and launch innovative solutions in your world. Participants get ready to:
- Challenge how you view innovation
- Ignite creativity by expanding your mindset
- Find ways to experiment at a micro level
- Believe that innovation can happen in your domain, because you are the expert and the one who can create value
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Learn & Practice
Session 1: Learn and practice the mindset of Fearless Innovation: Grace, Curiosity, Proactivity
Session 2: Discover the Fearless Innovation process, beginning with the Scan phase.
Session 3: Begin the Ideate phase of Fearless Innovation.
Session 4: Explore the Experiment phase of Fearless Innovation.
Session 5: Discover the Launch phase of Fearless Innovation, and discuss the leadership characteristics that foster a culture of innovation.
POST WORK/APPLY: Reinforce course learnings with online tools to help remember and apply the key concepts of Fearless Innovation.
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 5 SHRM PDCs
- 5 NASBA CPEs
- 5 ATD Credit Hours
Online Overview
The Fearless Innovation Overview with Reflect and Share is an ideal way to introduce critical concepts to your people. Participants learn the mindset and skill set needed to think like an innovator. As a 35-minute asynchronous learning module, it is a cost-effective and efficient way to share powerful information while enjoying a meaningful ROI.
The Fearless Innovation Overview helps organizations stay ahead of the competition by teaching a philosophy of continuous improvement. This design is a better choice for clients wanting to give people a quick boost of innovation ideas and tips, or to infuse innovation practices into a longer learning experience.
Digital Assets
Fearless Innovation has a set of 11 micro activities that take no more than five minutes to complete. Each activity helps learners to apply ideas that solve real workplace problems. These micro activities provide just-in-time learning through a variety of activity types such as videos, worksheets, and interactions.
Innovative ideas can come from anywhere—are you asking for them?
When employees feel their needs have been met, they report
84 %
of CEOs said their success heavily depends on their ability to innovate.*
Yet only 52 %
of workers contribute new and innovative ideas to their team.**
Adopt a Fearless Mindset To Drive Innovation Efforts
When you encourage innovation across your entire organization, your people become your competitive advantage.
Boost Agility
Organizations evolve more quickly and respond more nimbly to market changes.
Improve Problem-Solving
Teams tackle their most pressing challenges head-on.
Increase Engagement
Employees feel more successful, engaged, and connected to the organization.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help you cultivate a culture of innovation that accelerates your business growth.
Create A Culture Of Courageous Inclusion
It takes more than just awareness building and familiarizing people with DEI terminology to enable lasting culture change. Give your people the confidence and skills they need to create an inclusive, welcoming work environment that encourages people to bring their whole selves to work.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Conversational Capacity in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The in-person course is one full day. With hundreds of facilitators worldwide, we can deliver sessions for your organization or equip you to run them yourself. Public courses are also available.
Prework: LAUNCH — Welcome the participants and set the context for individuals and teams to reach new levels of performance through various activities to engage in open, balanced, and nondefensive conversations.
Session 1: LEARN — Defines awareness as the ability to recognize the two powerful emotional reactions and how they are essential for staying in the sweet spot.
Session 2: PRACTICE — Defines the Conversational Capacity Skillset, which includes specific behaviors people can use to balance candor and curiosity.
Session 3: APPLY — Introduces the Curiosity Skills, which highlights the advantage of having the humility to seek out information that might be missing and to understand others’ points of view.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Conversational Capacity virtual course includes prework assignments completed before the first course, with three two-hour live virtual sessions spread out over time. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- In the virtual sessions, participants develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Collaborative Online Course
Conversational Capacity can be delivered online in a collaborative, moderated class over five weeks, with assignments and cohort meetings once a week during one-hour live virtual inspire session. It is self-directed learning blended with discussions, exercises, reflection, and offline assignments. Participants gain skills for keeping conversations open, balanced, and productive, ways to maintain a learning-focused mindset, methods for overcoming obstacles to Conversational Capacity.
Online Overview
This 35-minute online overview teaches the core concepts of Conversational Capacity through micro-learning activities. Ideal for learners who need an overview of the content or a refresher, this course design can be used along with virtual and in-person sessions, or as part of a learning journey, to create more flexible learning experiences. Optional Reflect and Share sessions are also available.
Digital Assets
Set of nine micro-activities ranging from one to five minutes that learners can use during moments of need. The playlist includes videos, activities, and worksheets on topics such as influencing up, tackling touchy topics, why arguing backfires, and leaning into difference.
Communication can be a business driver or a derailer
80 %
the U.S. workforce reports feeling stressed because of ineffective company communication. 63% have wanted to quit because ineffective communication interfered with their ability to do their job.*
Up to 41 %
Companies with better relationships and communication experience 20% higher productivity, 21% higher profitability, and 41% lower absenteeism.**
*Dynamic Signal, 2019 Dynamic Signal Study. | **Wellness Council of America,The ROI on Better Workplace Conversations.
Good Listeners And Communicators Unlock Your Workplace’s Potential
Conversational Capacity is the foundation for a positive and productive workplace. It redirects all the energy wasted in unproductive exchanges into channels that benefit people and the enterprise.
Engage Employees
When people have honest and meaningful conversations, morale rises and the workplace buzzes with enthusiasm.
Spur Innovation
People share ideas. Colleagues contribute. A good idea evolves into a great one. That’s how innovation happens.
Improve Productivity
The gap between what people say and what others hear closes. Miscommunication and misunderstandings evaporate, and real work gets done.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to manage and develop their people effectively. Whether you prefer to use well-established, standard training designs or to tailor your learning experiences for your employees, we can help you succeed.
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