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Short Course
September 30 – October 1
LOCATION
Dolce Resort and
Conference Center
Basking Ridge, New Jersey
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How to Create & Sustain
Enterprise
Innovation
How do you thrive in economically crazy times?
You innovate like crazy!
Successful organizations must find ways to sustain innovation over the long haul. Wise leaders see innovation not just as a new product or service, but as a way of working to find opportunities in every job in their organization. Whether it’s to improve the top-line or bottom-line, implementing new solutions that add value to the organization requires leadership and teams working together. With different tools, techniques, skills, attitudes, and values than those used to sustain the status quo.
New & Improved along with AACC International is offering a rare opportunity to dig into the abilities necessary to bring more innovation to your enterprise by sharing insights that have emerged from over 15 years of creating sustainable innovation cultures for our clients.
Why should I spend two days away from the office when I’ve got work to do?
- Learn new approaches to rapidly bring innovation to your organization and marketplace
- Understand the organizational development strategies to create a system that has people deliver their full creative potential every day
- Discover new tools and techniques for helping to bring out and develop new solutions
- Find new areas in which to focus to bring forth innovation
- Expand your organization’s innovation abilities beyond new products and services
- Learn to navigate the roadmap for bringing innovation to your team and enterprise
- Reinvigorate yourself to keep pushing innovation to the top of your organization’s agenda
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Program Topics
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September 30
- Organizational Innovation Roadmap
What’s required of individuals and teams to bring innovation to the enterprise.
- Types of Innovation
It’s not JUST about products, since growth can occur in many areas, including business models, processes, offerings, service, and delivery.
- Leadership Behaviors that Drive Innovation
It’s not just what you say, it’s what you do that counts in shaping the enterprise and the culture for innovation.
- Blocks and Barriers to Innovation
What are the obstacles that get in the way of new solutions being developed and implemented?
October 1 (Choose a Program Track)
Program One
How to Facilitate Knock-out Ideation Sessions
Most organizations are filled with ideas for innovative solutions. Typically, the problem is creating a forum where the right ideas for the right challenges will emerge, be fully developed and then implemented successfully. This workshop will focus on the tools and techniques necessary to create a knock-out ideation session. Participants will learn and apply techniques to help:
- Capture ideas easily
- Spark new ideas in a wide-range of people
- Narrow down long lists of ideas efficiently and effectively
- Develop raw ideas into promising concepts
Whether you’re just starting to run innovation sessions or you’ve run so many that you’re on a first name basis with your flip-chart supplier, this workshop will further expand your skills to bring breakthroughs to your organization.
Program Two
How to Create and Lead a Culture of Innovation
Most organizations are filled with ideas for innovative solutions. The problem is creating an environment where these ideas can emerge and be developed. Research says that almost 70% of the climate for creativity and productivity is directly attributable to the behavior of the leader. So what do you do to foster innovation?
Participants will focus on developing leadership behaviors focused on:
- Recognizing the role of humility
- Taking responsibility for innovation in the organization
- Conscious communication to help foster new ideas and solutions
- Cultivating risk-taking in the organization
Whether you’re in the C-suite, a manager, or a member of an innovation team, this session will help you focus on how to contribute to creating a sustainable culture of innovation in your organization.
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Who Should Attend?
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Anyone interested in bringing innovation to their
organizations:
- Chief Innovation Officers
- VPs and C-suite members
- Managers and Directors
- People from mid-size to global organizations
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Organizer
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New & Improved, LLC
Bob Eckert and Jonathan Vehar are Founding Partners of New & Improved, LLC, a leading organizational development firm focused on creative thinking and innovation leadership. With over 15 years of focusing on how to bring out the best in people so that they can launch their best ideas into the world, Bob and Jonathan are two of the most respected “trainers of trainers” in the innovation community. Constant learners, the two have worked globally with hundreds of organizations of all types and sizes including Disney, GE, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and many more. In this program, they will reveal their latest synthesis of what helps leading organizations get that way and stay that way.
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Partner
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AACC International
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Registration
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Participants will receive a 10% discount on future programs
contracted with New & Improved through September 30, 2010
REGISTRATION FORM 
Questions? Contact New & Improved at +1.518.327.3554 or
excellence@newandimproved.com. Mention that you heard about
the course through the AACC International website.
More information about New & Improved is available at
www.innovationblogsite.typepad.com or
www.newandimproved.com.
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