The Human Chain Reactions Programme for Innovation

A complete programme to develop creativity and innovation change makers – bring together peers from across the whole organisation to create a community of creativity and innovation experts.

Creativity and innovation skills and behaviours are unique. They don’t come naturally to everyone and can take huge energy and focus. You’re probably leading at least one people related change project or programme that demands you think ‘outside of the box’. Unfortunately, the complexity and velocity of change today means the box could be a completely different shape to how it started out or not a box at all! So how do we manage that?

Our default when planning a new piece of work or leading a process of change is often to surround ourselves with people we know will ‘get things done’. How often do we deliberately go out of our way to seek a perspective that we don’t know or one that is likely to challenge our own? How often do we take someone from a very different role and team and assign them briefly to another with the sole purpose of looking at a complex issue through a completely different lens? Like many, the answer is probably nowhere near often enough. Because we are consistently operating under such time pressures, there’s simply not the space. In this time of change and transformation – whether that be us proactively preparing for the future or reacting to immediate challenges - the capability and capacity of our workforce for creative thinking and innovative action is going to be put to the test.

But how?

The ‘Chain Reaction’ Programme is designed specifically for those organisations that genuinely want to do things differently, see things differently, deliver things differently and are ready to embrace the thinking, behaviours and skills needed to make that happen right from senior leadership to those on the front line. It will take a flexible, whole organisational approach to releasing the creativity and innovation potential of the entire workforce. Founded on a scientific approach, you will go on a journey that creates and sustains an organisational climate where challenge of the status quo, generation and testing of new ideas and learning from mistakes is just part of business as usual. Most importantly the programme will enable you to lead your organisation to be creative and innovate where and when it matters most and as a result see real impactful change

Part 1: Imagining

‘Imagining’ – looking ahead, the future of work and the leading role we can all play. What challenges and opportunities are we going to face? This is an initial preparation and briefing half day session to get participants in the right headspace to prepare for the future and also connect with fellow peers across the organisation.

Duration: Half Day
Location: Remote or in person

• Understanding the programme

• Meeting future fellow Human Chain Reaction taskforce members and peers from across the organisation

• Setting the strategic context and rationale for innovation

• Exploring key trends for the future of work

• Starting as you mean to go on with a first challenge to take away

Part 2: Know How

‘Know How’ - an immersive series of 5 modules + 5 innovation coaching sessions

An experiential programme that supports people to lead the way in their organisations by embedding creativity and innovation in culture, leadership skills, people structures and processes. Becoming creativity and innovation practitioners, they will learn how to lead, behave, influence and apply new approaches, practices and tools to encourage chain reactions as part of the everyday. The modules below are supported by an additional and equivalent two days for innovation coaching and reflection on practice meaning practitioners will leave with the confidence and toolkit to support innovation throughout the organisation.

Module 1

• It starts with you: Individual creativity and innovation

  Duration: 1 day
  Location: In person 
  

  • Why Creativity and Innovation are different

  • The Science: Dr Batey’s 5 Key Principles

  • Leading for Psychological Safety

  • Am I creative? Is there a creative profile?

  • The Neuroscience of Change

  • Creative Spaces and Places

  • How to find challenges and opportunities – A Day in the Life & Extreme Users

  • The art of framing: ‘How to’ statements

Module 2

• Accumulating Insight: Team tools and Techniques

  Duration: 1 day
  Location: In person
  

  • What kills creativity and Innovation?

  • Team Structures: From Chalk n Cheese Partners to Swarms

  • Desperately Seeking Inspiration: How to spark curiosity

  • The Creative Facilitators Toolkit – What do I need?

  • Gaining clarity: The Kipling Method

  • The power of Connections: The neuroscience of ideas

  • What do they need? – Customer Empathy Mapping

  • So What’s the Big Idea? – Picture storming & Dot Voting

Module 3

• Generating and Testing Ideas: Better brainstorming

  Duration: 1 day
  Location: In person
  

  • Getting into the Detail: Attribute Listing

  • Moving from the Creative to Innovative Zone

  • Refining the Concept: SCAMPER

  • Hybrid Working and Generating Ideas: Brainwriting with WhatsApp

  • The Power of Incubation: The Incubation Matrix

  • Testing the Concept: Force Field Analysis

  • Rapid Implementation: 15 x 15 & Creotyping

  • Refining the Concept: AB Testing

Module 4

• Creating an Innovation Factory part 1: Leadership and culture

  Duration: 1 day
  Location: In person
  

  • Creative Systems Theory – There is no quick fix or magic bullet

  • Embedding creativity and innovation in leadership: 9 ways we should Be

  • Strategic Creativity and Innovation development: It (actually) is Rocket Science

  • Embedding creativity and innovation in Processes and Systems 1: 16 things we should Do

    ✔ Creativity and innovation training
    ✔ Talent attraction
    ✔ Recruitment
    ✔ Induction
    ✔ Performance management
    ✔ Reward schemes
    ✔ Succession planning
    

Module 5

• Creating an Innovation Factory part 2: Processes and Systems

  Duration: 1 day
  Location: In person
  

  • The Science of Storytelling: 7 Powerful Strategies

  • Best Laid Plans: The strategic management of change for innovation

  • Embedding creativity and innovation in Processes and Systems 2: 16 things we should Do

    ✔ Team resourcing
    ✔ Cross-functional team-working
    ✔ Dedicated creativity teams
    ✔ Resources for creativity and innovation
    ✔ Job and work design
    ✔ Idea management systems
    ✔ Clear routes to innovation implementation
    ✔ Benchmarking
    ✔ Education
    

Part 3: Starting a chain reaction – Sharing the toolkits

Taking everything they have learned in the immersive programme and dedicate time to equip new practitioners with the ability and techniques to facilitate innovation sessions in any part of the organisation, showcasing and briefing others on how to use the most powerful ‘taskforce toolkits’.

Duration: 1 day
Location: Remote

• Reframe everything that has been learned and package for sharing with others

• Learn how to facilitate creativity and innovation in other parts of the organisation - theory of brainstorming, reverse brainstorming and re-engineering

• Understand how to share and brief others in the use of 8 of the most powerful innovation toolkits shared to taskforce members

• Safe space to practice

Part 4: Human Chain Reactions Reunion

6-12 months later, attend a reunion to celebrate impactful innovations, share in a group coaching session, learn about the latest toolkits and take the opportunity to connect and network with peers who have completed the Human Chain Reactions programme.

Duration: 1 day
Location: In person

• Celebrate your innovative achievements 6-12 months later

• Add more toolkits to your collection with the latest shared by Dr Mark Batey

• Group coaching session to support the practice and challenges faced to date

• Networking with your Taskforce peers and learning from each other’s experiences

Need your own customised learning and development?

Cre8ov8 have decades of experience in designing and delivering bespoke interventions from coaching through to leadership conferences

For Boards of Directors, Senior Leadership Teams, Departments or even a whole organisation conference we can facilitate:

• Strategy Development – helping you to co-create winning new approaches to meet complex demands

• Product and Service New Development – the application of Design Thinking and Ideation approaches to formulate new products and services

• Developing your Mission, Vision and Values – From helping senior teams to find and create an authentic vision and values to workshops for how senior leaders can bring these to life

• Top team development – applying coaching principles to help teams reach the highest levels of performance

• Swarms – Run a large scale brainstorming session for 50-500 people all at the same time

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