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Innovation & Creativity Part of Stephen Covey's Lessons in Leadership Set. Here is a lesson about how the ghosts of our past create both fear and guidance. It is the story of a successful author grappling with writer's block and his very personal Journey to Discovery. Walking the cold streets of 19th century London, our distressed writer is under pressure to produce another novel and haunted by memories of his childhood: the poverty, the grueling factory work, the fear of being homeless. He is at a paralyzing impasse. While walking, he comes across a boy with whom he begins to talk. He finds the boy is working because his parents don't make enough money and, when asked for whom he works, the boy replies, 'For people like you.' This chance encounter is transformative, inspiring our writer, who gets back to his task with fervor. This is the true story of Charles Dickens and his classic, A Christmas Carol. It is an excellent example of how, when blocked, we tend to focus on the impasse itself, which hampers our ability to move forward. Journey to Discovery offers a poignant look at how we can utilize our past and our vision of the future to get back in touch with who we are and our place in the world. It's a look at how our past, present and future come into play when faced with stressful change situations. Journey to Discovery will help viewers to:
Journey to Discovery is an opportunity to identify and overcome impasse-causing situations from Dr. Stephen Covey, founder and chair of the Covey Leadership Center and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
 Release - 2009 Whether we pursue it, or it is forced upon us, CHANGE can make or break any business. The deciding factor is the attitude of the employees charged with adapting to the challenge of finding new solutions. Change and Innovation through Brainstorming is a fun and highly entertaining video designed to kickoff any team meeting with a sense of energy and optimistic enthusiasm. Hosted by comedian and national speaker John Sweeney, and based on his best-selling book, Innovation at the Speed of Laughter, John explores and explodes the most common myths and misconceptions that hamper effective brainstorming and challenges the team to accept the potential of every idea in their search for solutions. DVDs Includes: Meeting DVD - 15:00 minutes The 8 Secrets of a Brainstorming Session Look at Change as Fuel
Leader's DVD - 12:00 minutes Whether it is doing more with less or finding the next great new product or service this program prepares and inspires team leaders for the critical challenge of facilitating a dynamic and productive search for innovation. John Sweeney demonstrates practical techniques to engage each team member and create a safe environment by increasing the fun and decreasing the status in the room. As an added bonus, the DVD includes 4 extended scenes of John’s team warm-up exercises. Four Warm-Up Excercises - 9:00 minutes Four exercises that the Brave New Workshop uses to help team members get out of their heads. This is business improvisation at it's finest. See John Sweeney in action! Purchase Package Includes
Antonio Dávila Innovation and incentive go hand in hand, but you have to be careful that the motivation is coming from the right place. You want your team to be fueled by passion rather than money. There are two types of innovation—radical and incremental—and limiting yourself to one or the other may squelch creativity. Get the best result for your product by ensuring that everyone in your organization is on task and inspired. Having strategies in place that lead to the accomplishment of clearly defined goals is an important way to keep ideas flowing. Author and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki explains the rules that make new products and services successful. Using examples from the personal-computer industry and a broad spectrum of other industries, Kawasaki outlines the ten things that a revolutionary must do to succeed in today's business climate. His presentation is a complete and pragmatic guide to the creation and marketing of revolutionary products and services for people who want to change the world. $99.99 [Add to Cart]The biggest risk today is irrelevancy. Barriers that protected incumbents in the past have broken down, and competitive positions can be quickly overturned. If you miss a trend, there may be no catching up. How do you stay out of the band of mediocrity and position your company to become an architect of industry revolution? The answer is to reinvent who you are in meaningful ways. Innovation has to be a deeply embedded capability where every person in the company has a responsibility for wealth creation. Of course, wealth will not only be created, it will also be destroyed. As companies move beyond incremental change, strategy innovation is the only way for a company to renew its lease on success. $99.99 [Add to Cart]Great ideas are integral to success. Lynda Curtin gives you the tools to generate fresh ideas quickly and systematically. Using the proven techniques of lateral thinking, provocative operations, concept extraction, and random entry, she engages you in a powerful ideas-generating process that will give you something useful to take back to your job. You'll learn how to break out of your current mind box, take charge of your creative thinking potential, and outthink your competition. $99.99 [Add to Cart]If your business has a closed innovation model, there is only one way into the product development funnel, and there is only one way out to the market. While this model has performed remarkably well for many companies—in many, many industries—it is now obsolete. In conditions of uncertainty, with very complex information, you don't have all the data you need to make the right R&D decisions every time. There is a temptation to go with ideas or products that fit your current business model, with the risk of investing in flops while overlooking potential blockbusters. Dr. Chesbrough describes how to open your closed innovation model, and then apply these same principles to rejuvenate your company's broader business model. He details specific examples of enterprises that have successfully leveraged innovation to create and capture value from ideas and technologies. $99.99 [Add to Cart]As work increasingly cuts across boundaries, it's necessary for you to influence people at all levels of your organization in order to get your job done. You often need resources and information beyond your own unit, pay grade or department. Whether it's your boss (or your boss's boss!), peers or direct reports, Carole Robin describes how to use the law of reciprocity and the theory of exchange to surface the currencies that matter to potential allies—and create win/win solutions. Dr. Robin explains how the effective use of influence helps you deliver on your promises and produce excellent results, making you one of the "go-to" people in your organization. And this in turn makes your circle of influence grow ever larger. $99.99 [Add to Cart] Meeting Opener f meetings and training sessions are an essential part of your organization, you know the importance of getting off to a good start. If your goal is to get everyone to contribute, this quick and quirky video is the way to achieve it. It will challenge any audience to think right out of the gate - and out of the box. Using fun riddles and entertaining animation, this short video will supercharge every ones brain before the real business of the session begins. Key Learning Points
Includes: DVD, Giraffe Bean Bag and Two Participant Pads. Length: 10 minutes
 25 Reproducible Assessment Exercises, Self-Inventories, Tests, and Survey Instruments What makes top-performing managers successful and effective in their jobs? And what do you need to develop in order to achieve similar success? The majority of American managers and supervisors work for firms with fewer than 100 employees - firms that lack the resources to offer management-development programs. This collection of self-assessment exercises was created to fill that gap and provide every manager and supervisor with professional-development materials designed for high performance. Over 100,000 participants have successfully used these materials in Training House programs, but the secret to the long-term effectiveness of these materials is they are based on the belief that before you can build on your strengths, you must first identify what they are and how they relate to job effectiveness. Each self-assessment is accompanied by information explaining how the scores should be interpreted, thus giving you the information you need to set realistic goals for yourself and to then achieve them. Training House believes that management begins and ends with measurement - measurement of needs, of goals and resources, and of timetables. And that you can't manage what you have not first assessed. Selected Contents
How do growth leaders such as Procter & Gamble, GE, and Amazon consistently achieve above-average organic growth? These companies pursue a disciplined, systematic process that distributes innovations across a spectrum of risk, ensuring that they balance incremental growth with breakthrough opportunities. $99.99 [Add to Cart]Successful innovations must be desirable to consumers, technically feasible, and viable from a business point of view. But how do you meet these requirements? Tim Brown advocates using the three stages of “design thinking”: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. For inspiration, innovators must look at the world through the eyes and the ears of users, perhaps studying analogous situations or extreme users to spark a generative process. Ideation, the core of the process, involves prototyping and realistic testing. Implementation begins with storytelling to bring the idea into the world. If a narrative can be developed around an idea, it has the best chance of being understood and implemented. $99.99 [Add to Cart]
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